Yep, you read it right. Growth spurt.
Your baby will go through it around 7-10 days, and you will definitely know it. While that first week isn’t easy, by the end of that first week a routine had started. Baby’s sleep pattern was kind of established, their eating habits were beginning to form, and you could pretty much start figuring out when and for how long they would sleep and feed.
But around day 7-10, things might change (it happened to us on day 8). Baby will become a milk monster and your usual consoling techniques become futile. She won’t sleep as well as the previous few days and might wake up every hour or so (assuming your child wasn’t doing this already). Granted, every baby isn’t the same, but it seems to happen to most, so get ready. If mom is breastfeeding, she might get abnormally sore or even tired from these more frequent feedings during this spurt, so be ready to help with anything.
There is no preparation, but you will know when it happens. And you can be rest assured that it will pass. Order will be restored into the chaos that was, and routines will be reestablished…until the next one in a few weeks. Tip: use mama’s magic touch.
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