Apologies in advance for long question...
Up until about 2 weeks ago my 15 week old ds was sleeping for about 4-5 hours in his first sleep of the night,then waking about 2 hourly after that. He was also just beginning to get to sleep on his own. I was finding it pretty manangable. For most of his daytime naps I breastfed him to sleep but for the odd one or two he was getting himself off. For his naps he was often going for 2 hours.
We spent 4 days in France where his patterns were the same, but I had to feed him to sleep at EVERY nap. But he still had the initial decent sleep at night and had good lengths of sleep during the day.
When we got back I tried to stop feeding to sleep but he was very resistant and there have been very few occasions where he has got himself off. I have even had to feed him briefly stood on the high street in town to help him off and stop him crying. Worse than that though is that he has started to only go between 1 and 2 hours between feeds during the night. ALL NIGHT. I am so tired. I'm not sure if he's really feeding much, just sucking to get off because he's woken up. But when he wakes in the morning it's a while before he needs feeding, I assume because he's full from the night. Also his naps have got shorter. He now wakes after an hour, but is grumpy and seems to need more. I have tried to breastfeed him back off a few time which has seomtimes worked.
It seems that he is completely reliant on breastfeeding to get him to sleep. I'm tired, he's tired. But I'm not sure what to do. I can't let him cry, but just comforting without breast doesn't help. I can't carry on with nights like this though.
Any ideas, suggestions, thoughts???
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Breasfeeding to sleep has got too much...
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shirleycat1 · 26/08/2009 11:50
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