Witching hours

The Bubby cluster fed pretty much nonstop from 5pm - 1am yesterday.

I am confident that there is enough milk, due to her weight gain and the fact I can express 200ml in less than 10 minutes every second morning.

I downloaded the Wonder Weeks app (after downloading a white noise app, which was nice for me but didn't make much difference for The Bubby), which indicated the first WW occurs at 4.5 weeks after their due date. For what it's worth, The Bubby was born 9 days early, but hit four weeks old yesterday. Signs of the first wonder week are:

- Crying without a normal reason such as a dirty diaper, hunger or sleep 
- Only quiet when she is with you
- Suddenly wants much more physical contact. For instance, your baby only wants to sleep when he lies in your arms, or he suddenly wants to sleep feeling belly-to-belly contact.
-Wants to be breast fed much more often. This is very normal and very good.

Um, this is EXACTLY what she was like last night. She settled on The Husband for 20 minutes so I could shower, but then she kicked off again and came in for a 6 minute feed. Then she was noisy in the bassinet and would settle on The Husband almost instantly, repeat repeat repeat.

 It got to 12:30 and we were out of ideas. I was literally at a dead end. I just couldn't see an answer - she'd only sleep on him, but she can't sleep on him, so.....?

 Our next step was to be to whip out the dummies that I'd bought for her before The Toddler was weaned off hers - we can't give The Bubby a dummy during the day because there is no doubt in our minds that The Toddler would crack her nut and want one. So we agreed if she wouldn't go down the next time, we'd get the dummy.

 Then I accidentally went straight to sleep while the husband struggled to keep his eyes open for another 30 minutes to get her fully settled.

 Of course, she woke up at 3am and 6am for a feed, but they were both super short and she went straight to sleep afterwards. And she's been sleeping peacefully all morning, including an action packed visit to my parents house for breakfast.

Please let this week pass and return to normal...