Non-spurt?
What is the opposite of a growth spurt? Because Kate is in one of those right now.
I was right in that my supply is down, but I think wrong as to the cause – it wasn’t my time away. Kate is just not eating much. Today I was kind of in the mindset of Have to have her nurse frequently to get my supply up! It was so not happening. I’d offer her the breast and she’d suck twice then start playing and grinning. And when she is hungry she’ll nurse for a while and empty my breast and then be totally happy. So obviously she has no problem with this.
She is also not sleeping much. Today she had 2 naps. TWO. This is utterly bizarre for a baby who as late as last week was taking 5-6 naps a day. Right up until and during her last little cold she was only going typically an hour before needing to nap again, max hour and a half before melting down. She got healthy and bam she’s going 3 hour stretches. What the hell? When she gets cranky I would try putting her to sleep like usual but she nurses briefly and starts playing and babbling happily, clearly NOT tired.
This could explain why she’s been fighting naps and not sleeping very long.
At 10pm she was ready for bed, we cuddled for a little bit, she nursed and straight to sleep. And then, after she was sound asleep, I rolled over and scooted to the other side of the bed to cuddle with my husband and talk for a while just like we used to. I missed that. We still talk after we go to bed, but it’s typically with a large gap between us as I could never move away from Kate – or when I could roll away we couldn’t talk or we’d wake her. It was so nice.
You´ll soon find that she starts dropping naps,she´s at that age ;)
As NBs,they do tend to sleep alot,but after a few months they are awake more hours during the day and sleep spunder at night.Its a good thing and it happens very slowly.
Kate is no longer a new born baby who just eats,poops and sleeps..now,she can somewhat entertain herself,she enjoys her surroundings and she is learning to sleep more at night and make more of her days :)
Its a process,so yeah,the “WTF!?” feeling is very normal lol.
She´ll go back and forth,but soon,she wont need more than a couple of naps a day (if that at all).By 6 months old,mine were napping just once a day,and only for a couple of hours.It becomes exsausting when they barely sleep during the day,but as a rule,the lack of naps means they sleep great at night,so its not all bad :)
I feel that changes like this are like toddler “puberty” lol.They go through a “change”,throw us through a loop,and we are left oblivious as to what to do until we get used to it..then they go through another phase..etc etc
E went to two naps at almost 7 mos. He started transitioning by dropping the 3rd every now and again starting at the end of 5 mos.