Hi all
I am new here and so utterly desperate for a solution to my baby's sleep 'problems'. She is almost six month and is breastfed. She used to be an amazing sleeper but since 4 months has begun waking anything from 2-5 (and sometimes more) times a night. She never sleeps longer than 40 minutes in the day, unless in the sling, where I can choose to bounce her back off to sleep when she wakes after her first sleep cycle if she still seems tired. My instinct was always that she was in bad habits and was used to being fed or bounced to sleep. However, I sought advice from la leche league and they said that 'bad habits' is an outdated concept and they advised to offer the breast first at every waking. Since adopting this approach, my baby has begun to wake even more often - every 90 minutes - and actually puked after the third feed at 1am last night. Surely this isn't right?! In the end, I patted her bum to sleep whilst she cried a bit (really tough for me) instead of feeding and she slept for 3 hours (a good stint for us). I am so confused and all I want to do is right by baby. I have become scared of the 'if you don't meet your child's needs at night it will damage your attachment' discourse/never let baby cry/co-sleep is best/always breast feed to sleep/you need to o change if our expectations & not your baby etc and don't know what to do! So is the bad habits theory outdated? Should i just put up with it for the good of my baby and struggle on? HELP
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Is the 'bad habits' view point old fashioned?
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user1474026214 · 22/09/2016 10:47
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