Hi,
Our exclusing BF 6mo DS has never "slept through" yet, struggles with sleeping generally, and DH and I are exhausted. I'd really appreciate some advice on what, if anything, I can do to help DS drop a night feed.
So, the best possible night at the moment is one where he settles to sleep after a bath and feed by around 8ish. He then wakes for a feed any time between 10.30 and 1 and then for a secon feed any time between 2.30 and 5. He then wakes up between 6 and 7, ready for the day.
A common night would include a further 5 wakings, including one of up to two hours awake, and if we're really desperate a third feed.
He had got all his feeds day and night down to about 20 minutes, but after a spate of teething and colds, he is feeding for up to an hour at bedtime, and then 45 mins+ for each of the night feeds. He tends to fall asleep during these feeds, and I am loathe to wake him given his tendancy to then take an hour or more to resettle. During the day he seems very distracted during feeding, so I have now started to sit in a quiet room, no TV or anybody else for them which helps a little. He doesn't really seem that enthusiastic for his feeds.
We would love him to drop his second night feed, and DH has read in the cursed sleep books that at 6 months DS shouldn't need any food at night. But I'm not sure that I believe a sleep expert is necessarily a BF expert also, and I honestly don't know where to begin encouraging DS to drop a night feed.
Please can anybody help? Thank you!
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IsItMeOr · 17/09/2009 12:49
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