DS has always been a shit sleeper.
On his best nights he will wake up at 11pm/2.30am/5am then up at 6.30am for the day.
He's coming up to 9 months and I want him to sleep better for his sake (I'm actually pretty used to the sleep deprivation now). Also in a month we'll be going on holiday to a small apartment and I don't want him waking DD. Plus I can tell he's going to be standing soon and I think any sort of sleep training will be a lot harder once he can pull himself up.
I am all for controlled crying and did it with DD, who I could tell was only waking out of habit. Maybe because I'm a bit more of a pushover with DS I'm wondering if he is still hungry at night. He eats 3 meals a day and I feed him (generally bf because he's not very interested in bottles) in between.
The thing that makes me wonder is that if he wakes up at a really irregular time, so an hour after a feed or something, I can pat him back to sleep in seconds (it's usually because he's moved around the cot and bumped his head or something, or a noise from outside has woken him). When he wakes at his usual time and I try the patting he howls in protest, or manages to go back to sleep for 5 minutes then wakes and howls. Is it just because he's used to getting milk when he wants it or can be actually be hungry despite all he eats in the day?
I'm happy to still feed him at 11pm but do you think I can cut out the other feeds until at least 5am? I ferberised DD so reduced the feeds by a minute or two each night until they were down to nothing.
It probably doesn't help that he doesn't have his own room yet for various logistical reasons, and probably won't until he's a year old. But our bedroom is pretty big so it's not like he's right next to my bed. We have a spare room (with a double bed but no room for anything else, hence why his cot can't go in it) so I could temporarily sleep in there if it would help.
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Do 9 month olds still need night feeds?
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Tallulahoola · 31/07/2016 11:15
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