Does anyone else have a screaming hour (that lasts for WAY longer then an hour)?
Willow will be beautiful all day, feeding and sleeping ... feeding 3-4 hourly during the day and sleeping usually after each feed - she falls asleep on the boob mostly.
But from about 4pm through till the late feed at around 11pm she will just scream.
She will still feed during this time, obviously be quiet while feeding, but then as soon as feed is over, she will scream again.
We run through our check list - is she warm, is she dry, is she with us (DH or I), has she been burped ... but to no avail, NOTHING will settle her.
She will then crash on the boob during her late feed and will sleep then from 11pm through till our alarm goes off around 6am. Yes, we are enjoying this sleep pattern but seriously, the screaming from 4pm - 11pm is insane.
Last night was pretty awful.
She screamed from 3pm, fed at 5pm, fed again at 8pm, we bathed at 9pm out of desperation as a bath usually settles her ... but not last night. I had fed her at 8pm so was expecting another feed around 11pm however at around 10:30pm she crashed out with exhaustion - DH and I also crashed out ... we were all in our bed.
I expected to be woken by Willow's screams anytime after 11pm wanting a feed (she has sometimes gone 4-5 hourly of a night) however she then slept through till the alarm went off at 6:15am - not one of us stirred till the alarm switched on.
We felt so terrible this morning as she went almost 10 hours between feeds.
I had DH call the 24 hour parents hotline (Trescillian) to check this was OK, the lady told us it was OK for the baby however probably not so great for me with my boobs and milk production, however obviously we were all that exhausted we needed the sleep.
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