I don't really understand what's happened.

Lucy was always a great feeder and sleeper from being 3 weeks old really. Even then she only woke once in the night. By 7 weeks, she was taking 8oz 4 times a day and sleeping through, only waking at 4 for her dummy and then she would stir at about half 6.

She is now 14.5 weeks and we're having a nightmare. For the last 7 days, I've not been able to to get her to have more than 4-5oz at a feed, I've had to add in an extra one so that she's still having enough and she's waking up at half 1 and half 4 every night, I feed her at half 1 (which takes half an hour, then she stays awake for another 20 minutes!!!) and then by half 4, after half an hour of constantly getting out of bed to give her the dummy, I end up taking her to bed with me when she'll sleep for another 2 hours. She doesn't even feed a lot in the morning after 6 hours with no food. Also, even at those times, she'll often wake up another couple of times for her dummy, just feel like I'm getting no sleep as I'm up and down all night.

I no growth spurts can be to blame but what can I do, she feeds every 3 hours anyway so don't feel like I want to increase it anymore. I've tried making her go longer between feeds to encourage her to take more but that doesn't seem to work.

She has reflux really bad so I let her go to sleep in my arms so that she's not sick, but I'm not sure whether I should be doing that really.

Any suggestions would be great. I really don't know what to do. Have tried a dreamfeed at 10 and that worked for a couple of nights but then she started waking up and staying awake for a good hour and a half!!!

Amy xxx

Not really sure theres much you can do, if its a growth spurt then you just have to ride through it

If she wakes and needs food then feed her, if at one of those waking times you are just giving her a dummy I would give her another bottle. It IS typical growth spurt time and give it a little while longer with the extra night feeds and its very likely it will settle down and she will sleep for longer again.

I really hope so, starting to feel like I did at the beginning - soooooooooooo tried!!!