Ok Ladies--I am at a loss as what is going on with my little one. My daughter is 3 1/2 months old and started sleeping through the night 9-12 hours straight at a month 1/2 old! Crazy, I know but so thankful!!! The last 4 nights she has been not going to bed until 3am because her little tummy hurts. She sometimes will have blow out poos.
She used to poop after her morning feeding before her 2nd bottle and then go back to sleep for her morning nap. She is souly breastfed and I have not been eating anything any different than I was prior to 4 days ago. During the day she sleeps fine with no problems....we are going to try and get her up more today and see if that helps any but I know she is wiped out from not sleeping well at night! She also is sleeping anymore during the day than she used to. How or can you change a babies poo schedule? Any ideas on what this could be? I would really like to have my good sleeper back!
If you feel it's her tummy, I'd give her Gripe water before you put her down. That stuff is amazing. Wish I'd have known about it with my first child.
Hi...ibwemt thru the same thing and everyone one of my friends with babies did too..all around 3 1/2-4 months. I did some research at the time and found a lot of info on a "4 month sleep regression" where their sleep cycle gets all messed up because of developmental changes that are taking place...ie learning their midline, learning to grasp their hamds together, learning to roll over, possibly teething in some babies, etc. They apparently they don't stop trying to accomplish the task in their sleep and therefore are restless. That's what I found...who knows. But perhaps she'll settle back down soon...keep following a routine at night.
Additionally, she could be developing some food allergies to chocolate or milk, which could be upsetting her tummy. Take a closer look at adjusting some sensitive foods that may not have bothered her before. I know when i ate broccoli it seemed to suddenly bother my son.
Good luck!
Hi. It's so hard when their little tummies hurt. I have two tricks that help my son go that may help you. Do you have a jumper? Way little to jump, but my son got his at 4 months and something about the way he sits in it makes him go if he needs to. Don't recommend this trick unless your little one can hold her head up. My other suggestion is to check out a book by Ingrid Bauer, called "Diaper Free: Natural Infant Hygiene". It's a bit radical for this day and age, but it's also somewhat brilliant. Anyway, there's a position you can hold your baby in over the potty and it works for getting my son to go. We do use diapers, just try this if we think he needs to go. It's been way more successful than not in the week we've been doing it. The author suggests starting between 0 and 6 months. If you're not interested in doing that per se, you could try holding your sweet baby in that position just in her diaper to help her go. You basically hold her back against your chest with your arms supporting the sides of her body and hands holding her thighs, almost like she's sitting. Blessings and hope her tummy starts feeling better!
Hi J.,
I sympathise, I really do. This is just what babies do. Such a young baby has no long term rhythm to her sleep, waking, eating or pooping. the minute you think you have her figured out she changes.
I wish you patience and sleep. It's a good thing babies are cute!
She is right at the age for a growth spurt. Your milk may be undergoing some changes to meet her ever changing needs and this could be responsbile for some of the poop changes. My daughter also slept more for the 7-10 days around a growth spurt.
I also highly suggest some sort of babywearing! I loved my sling and Moby Wrap. It was an easy way to keep my baby engaged when she was awake and still get things done around the house. I use a buckle mei tai now and when she wants a little mama time she says, "pack-pack mommy".
The best advice I got was not to try and keep a sleepy baby awake AND never wake a sleeping baby. That being said, awake time was ACTIVE time...lots of noise and stimulation and talking and singing. Some moms swear that restricting daytime sleep will help with nights, but I honestly believe it depends on the child. An average four month old needs like 16-18 hours of sleep per 24 hours.
One more thing you might consider is that you could be having a period of over-production. I was the overproduction QUEEN--seriously, I pumped FOUR extra gallons of milk between 10 weeks and 6 months and she was exclusively breastfed during that time. The easiest resolution is to only nurse one side at a session--making sure to swap the side you start on. If/when you baby unlatches, burp her and put her right back on the same side. If you are having over-production this will do two things...help regulate your supply and give your daughter more fat-rich hindmilk which can help minimize stomach upset. We nursed like this for several months.
Good luck. It won't be the last time you have some sort of sleep challenge.
I don't have any advice, but my son has done the EXACT same thing....soley breastfed, good all-night sleeper until 4 days ago. 3 1/2 months now...I am at a loss as well!
Make sure you are really burping her well.. Start from her lower back and work your way up with more pressure. .. Also layer on her back and "peddle her legs" close to her tummy..after her final burp.
This will help get things moving in there. She is probably drinking more cause she is going through an extreme growing spurt and her system just has not caught up.. If you can, try to burp her 2 or 3 times if possible, while breast feeding.. I know it is hard to unlatch her, but give it a try...
I too had experienced the same with my newborn daughter. In the beginning she was sleeping fine. Then at three and a half months her crying was so severe that we rushed her to the emergency room. Comes to find out her pediatrician discovered that she was very gassy. I had to change her formula and use Mylecon drops in her milk which aleviated her gas problems. You may want to monitor what you are eating that perhaps is causing possible gas. Good luck!
