Fussy baby

My 12 day old has been fussing since 3am (4 hours). She had a 50 minute feed at that time and has been on and off the breast since but falls asleep very quickly when on, I have burped her, given a formula top up, walked around tried to soothe but nothing is working. Anyone else had this, is it just normal newborn behaviour or any other ideas of things to try?

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I have the same thing at the moment, baby was awake from 12-5 am 😩x

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when my baby was that little sometimes the ONLY thing that would help is the car! I would drive round in the middle of the night sometimes just so she could relax enough to go to sleep. She did have CMPA and silent reflux but it may help if you have one

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I have been sitting here for hours with my 3 week old. As soon as he is settled in the cot and I lie down it starts again. Just one of those nights

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Totally normal, you're doing amazing. Could be cluster feeding which really helps with your supply if you keep putting baby to breast. Are there any worries with weight gain or wet nappies? If no, then you may not need the formula top up (but if you want to combi feed then that's fine too, I just thought I'd mention as it doesn't always mean baby is hungry if they are fussy)

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As Catherine said, it could be clusterfeeding, if it is then topping up with formula will impact the amount of milk you produce. It will always have an impact, but clusterfeeding is specifically so that mom will produce more milk.

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Has she been checked for tongue tie? Fussing, poor weight gain and falling sleep shortly after beginning a feed is everything my bubs would do when he was little and he had awful tongue tie. Health visitors and midwives didn’t pick it up until his dad finally took the reins and they got him booked into a TT specialist when he was 9 months (!!!)

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