The logical part of me feels like what we're going through is all textbook 4-month growth spurt stuff. But the paranoid part of me is afraid that it means either my milk supply is tanking, that it will LEAD to my milk supply tanking, or that something else is wrong with DS.

Since he was about 2.5 months old, he'd sleep for a 5-6 hour stretch at night, then get up once or twice after that to eat. Then he started daycare at 3 months, and he was starting to sleep progressively longer at night, which peaked at 13 weeks with two nights of a 10-hour stretch and then a total sleep-through.

Then he got RSV, and then an intestinal thing. Last week, he started waking up 3 times. Last night, he was up 4 times to eat. One of those times, he wasn't even crying -- it was 5 a.m. and he was in his rock n play just talking and I figured it'd be a good opportunity to get a nursing session in, and he was all smiley and wanted to play. Ha.

Meanwhile, his nursing has become atrocious this week. He'll latch on and pop off several times in a row, latching only for a split second, then when he does stay on, he swallows for a minute or two then either pops off, falls asleep (if it's when we get home), or just sits there with the nipple in his mouth. He doesn't really seem upset, and at least this morning when he popped off, there was milk coming down my boob, so it's not like I hadn't let down.

And his daytime sleep, while never stellar at daycare, is just ridiculous this week as well. 1.5 hours tops, 10-minute naps here and there. Then he screams the entire way home instead of falling asleep in his car seat as usual.

Of course, I'm all in a tizzy because I've noticed a slight decrease in what I've been able to pump at work this week, and I'm thinking either he's all fussy and eating all night because I have no milk (which really doesn't make sense since he's getting his bottles at daycare during the day), or all this crappy nursing is going to tank my supply. So I'm happy to nurse him at night when he wakes, because I know it can only help.

Anyway... enough about me. He's 16 weeks on Saturday. Does this all sound about normal to you? What was your growth spurt/sleep regression like? And what can I do to make this all easier on all of us? Other than, you know, relaxing a bit.