My DS is 16 weeks old and has never been a great sleeper - we struggle with day time naps and he's never slept through - the longest sleep we've had a night is 5 hours and that's only happened twice!
He is EBF. I had got used to putting him to bed at 7.30 pm ish, up to feed him at 1 am ish and again at 5 am/6 am ish. This suited me fine (even though I still hankered for him to sleep longer!).
Now, over the last week he has started waking every hour to an hour and a half. I know he can't be hungry at every waking and trying shushing him and putting dummy back in but he won't go back off until I feed him. When I do feed him he is feeding for about 5 minutes or so (btw this is normal, that's what I usually get during the day, I think he is an efficient feeder and I have a strong let down, he's gaining weight etc).
Any ideas as to get him back to his old sleep pattern? I'm losing the will to live and feel so fed up .... any advice re getting him to sleep more would be gratefully received. Spoke to HV yesterday and she suggested leaving to cry for longer ... I tried this last night but he got too worked up so I fed him - am I making a rod for my own back I wonder??? Thanks x
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No sleep - what am I doing wrong? Help!
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VictoriaMc77 · 30/07/2011 08:49
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