6 month old gone backwards-please help!!

[mum2alice]

Hello wise ones,

My 6mo has gone from a nice manageable 1 waking a night (after a feed of EBM at 10-11ish) to waking every 1 and 1/2 hours. This has been going on for about 3 weeks now and is absolutely killing me and DH. I can't sleep during the day as DD1 is 3 and no longer sleeps. I'm also finding it v difficult to get her to feed properly and take any form of solids. I'm consequently feeding her when she wakes as I suspect she's hungry. I don't feel I can just " go with it" any more. I feel awful and I keep snapping at my 3 year old so I'm absolutely deperate for some advice. Please, please help.

[PrettyCandles]

It does sound that she's hungry, but if you keep bfing her she won't take the solids, so it#s a bit of a vicious circle. I found that my LOs were less likely to take solids if they were too hungry - at least, until they were used to solids. Wehn they're worked up and screaming with hunger then they want the comfo0rt of something familiar, ie milk.

I know it's uncoventional to do this, but have you tried offering her solids between boobs, IYSWIM, so that the edge is taken off her hunger but she's still hungry enough to want more? And what are you offering? Generally I say "bleurgh - no!" to baby rice, but, in this case baby rice mixed with ebm might be sufficiently un-alien for her to accept. OTOH, I started my LOs off on carrots and sweet potato, as they are sweet, nutritious and easily digested.

[mum2alice]

I've tried sweet pot, butternut squash, carrot, courgette and swede. Butternut squash goes down okish with pear, but generally fruit is the reall winner! She much prefers feeding herself so I've also tried toast, carrot sticks etc which she more readily accepts. She's fed well today so I'll just have to keep my fingers crossed and go to bed now!

Might try the feeding between BFs tomorrow. Thanks for the suggestion.

[PrettyCandles]

Sounds pretty good. We used to give dd a top-up (either ebm or f) after her last bf before we went to bed as she had started waking more often in the night but we wanted her to be a little older before starting solids.