Hi everyone, I'm hoping someone in here will be able to shed some light or give me some suggestions, because I really don't know what to do? But first some back ground info (sorry in advance for the long post)...

I have a beautiful four month old baby girl whom I have been breastfeeding exclusivley with out any problems what so ever. I have been pretty lucky, she has been a bit of a dream baby (so I've been expecting some downs to follow my ups eventually). I have been demand feeding and although we dont have a 'routine' (apart from bed time) we have a basic rythm which we follow every day. Four weeks ago (before we went on holidays)she would have 3 naps a day, all varying in length from 40 min up to 2 or 3 hours, and she would go to bed at 7pm, only waking once during the night at 3am and would start her day again at 7am and she would feed for about 30-40min. And then we went on holidays...

We went away for three weeks, and we did ALOT of driving around seeing both of our famlies (around 6000kms) so we messed her up a little. From the day we left she became difficult to feed as she was too distracted to feed properly (either because she glad to be our of her car seat and looking around, or because we were at someones house and there was so much going on) so she was never getting a full feed. Then to add on top of that she was missing sleeps, having interrupted sleeps and some times fantastic sleeps so eventually her once a night waking turned into twice a night waking (which I expected).

We have now been home for a week and I have been making an extra effort to stay at home for feed times (quiet and uninterrupted) and sleep times in an effort to get her settled again. However... She is still having troubles feeding, only feeding for a short time before getting fussy and not wanting anymore and her sleeping is getting worse. Her day time sleeps she always wakes after 40mins and only sometimes resettling back down for a little longer and night times are even worse. She is waking as early as 9:30 for a feed and as often as 1,3,5 or 6 not to mention alot of stirring in between and waking at 8 to start her day. Despite all of this she is still a really happy baby and is never actually grizzly or upset during the day. I have tried to express what I could during the day after each feed to give to her at the end of the day just before bed (which ends up being about 100ml) on top of what she will take from me to try and fill her up a little more, which she drinks fine but is making no difference. After a lot of thought I unwillingly offered her a bottle of formula tonight to see if that would help, but she wouldnt drink it.

So my issue is obviously the feeding and sleeping, but I am also pretty sure that my milk supply has decreased.

Help anyone!?

Sorry again for the EXTREMELY long post. TIA

Thanks for your reply Jules! Sorry if I'm breif also, as I am too typing this one handed whilst feeding! ha ha

Soon after I put up this post, I turned to my husband and said "I need to stop stressing about nothing". She is happy and content and not at all grizzly so is obviously getting enough to get her through (even if I do thnk she is feeding more at night because she is not having enough during the day) and weighing in at 8.3kgs she isn't going to fade away to nothing anytime soon! ha ha She isn't difficult to put to sleep and is never hard to resettle after waking for a night feed. I just have to deal with the extra wakings during the night until she sorts herself out (which in time I'm sure she will).
Thanks again for your reply Jules, you have helped put my mind at ease.