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I'm sorry When LO was a newborn we got into a routine really early of going to bed between 9 and 10 every night. I would nurse LO to sleep and DH and I would just go to bed then too when she fell asleep. She was a good sleeper as a newborn so I was waking to feed every 3 hrs at that point rather than her waking us-- but don't worry she got us back with surprise horrible sleep starting at 3.5 mo and lasting until about 6 months. Hang in there! It sucks but we all make it through somehow!

As for your other questions-- we were combo feeding after 3 weeks because my supply was so low that LO only gained 1 ounce from weeks 1-3. I can't remember how much we offered after every bottle, either 1 or 2 ounces. Although we actually did not offer overnight because she never wanted it then. The roughest part of our day was evening. She was hellish between 3-9pm every day.

Ugh my son screamed from 9-1am. That was his colicky witching hours. Then he might sleep 45 minutes at a time. During the day he rarely slept more than 20 minutes and would cluster feed from 3pm to 9pm. He was soooo hard as a newborn!!

@Freckles: Well according to KellyMom there are several in the first couple of months.

"Common times for growth spurts are during the first few days at home and around 7-10 days, 2-3 weeks, 4-6 weeks, 3 months, 4 months, 6 months and 9 months (more or less). Babies don’t read calendars, however, so your baby may do things differently."

So it's entirely possible that's where you're at right now!

My almost-4-month-old started his 3-4 month growth spurt a couple of weeks ago, I think. Same thing happened where we were very comfortably on a 4 hour feeding schedule for about a month when all of the sudden he was acting ravenous every 2-3 hours and stopped sttn so he could eat twice. Drove me bonkers the first couple of nights but then I started to expect it and it got better (for me). And now almost 2 weeks later he seems to be back on a 4 hour schedule during the day and is starting to sleep longer stretches again at night. I'm exhausted but once I accepted that it was a spurt and he needed the food and wasn't trying to torture me, it got a lot more tolerable. But it's still HARD and frustrating at times, so I sympathize!