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My 4 week old will only sleep 40 mins at night before wanting to be breastfed again is anyone else experiencing the same?, after 5/10 mins she’ll fall back asleep and do the exact same, during the day she can sleep for nearly 2/3 why is that ?
She’s both bottle and breast fed my partner gives her bottle at night before bed to give me a little rest

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The bottle could be making her gassy or have reflux before bed. Have you tried breastfeeding before she goes down for the night instead?

She might be going through a growth spurt hence the cluster feeding. Babies haven’t got any idea whether it’s day or night, try and keep day time light and bright and loud. And night times dark and quiet. She’s still learning, it will take a couple more weeks before she settles properly. This will hopefully settle over the next couple weeks, as it did for me.🫶🏼 my current schedule is feed, bath, feed to sleep. And my baby usually sleeps around 2-3 hours after this routine. Try and keep every night the same so she learns what bed time is.

Mine was the same the first few weeks it was awful but got so much better after the cluster feeding settled and we started to swaddle him. Make sure she has had a full feed if you can by doing breast compressions

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