Sleeping pattern changes

My little boy is 5 weeks old, he was sleeping 4 hours between night feeds, but the past week or so he’s waking up every 2 hours for a feed (it takes an hour to feed and get him back to sleep each time, so I’m only getting an hour sleep between each feed max). He’s breastfed.
His pattern used to be : 10:30-2:30, 3:30-6:30/7. He’s now all over the place, tonight he’s done 10:30-1, 2:30-3:30.

Has anybody else experienced this, is this normal or is he not feeding enough each time meaning he needs top ups?

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Also have a 5 week old and he has only ever woken up every 90mins-2hours for feeding. We once got a 3 hour stretch which was epic 😆 it’s very hard because I also only get about 1 hour of sleep between feeds

I would recommend downloading the wonder weeks app for your own sanity. It predicts and explains fussy periods, my little girl is 5 weeks old and supposedly entering her fussy period today, though I would suggest it definitely started yesterday 😅

We followed this with our first girl, and it’s predictions were pretty accurate (I would say 3 days out). It helped me have an idea of how long to expect her to be fussy for and that it wasn’t anything I was doing, but actually a stage of development that all babies would go through x

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