This is a thread for my interest really.
There are lots of threads about trying to get babies to sleep through without feeds during the night. I think mums are ending up with even less sleep that if they just fed their baby, be it breast or bottle. Is it the fear that if it is not cracked by 6 months they will never sleep through?
My sister has 4 girls who didn't sleep though till at least a year and her philosophy was to do whatever would get herself back into bed and sleep the quickest. She realised with her second baby that she spent too much time being annoyed about being up which was making her even more tired. She remembered the hassle with the first so she decided just to feed at night and sort out the sleeping when they were older. When they were over a year she sorted it out with controlled crying (didn't take long)
I took that attitude myself. When babies woke I took them into bed and fed them. That meant I could sleep at the same time. They were all breastfed. First 2 babies slept through the night by 4 months. Number 3 did not sleep through till 8 months and he was the fattest baby out the lot. With 2 other toddlers to look after there was no way I was going to lose out on sleep at night by avoiding just feeding. Number 4 was B/F exclusively till 6 months and she had periods of being up during the night then sleeping through again about the 6-7 month mark.
I had 15 months between babies number 2 and 3 and was also working 2 night a week. DH got up and gave EBM when I wasn't at home, so I wanted to make sure I got as much sleep as possible.
The point I am trying to get across is that perhaps mums are getting themselves stressed out where they could just feed and get back to sleep.
Once baby is a year old it is possibly easier to stop night feeds with controlled crying like my sister did. I found that I didn't need to do that because the latest mine slept through was 8 months. I have never had a problem with children sleeping in my bed. Once they started to sleep through that was it.
Any thought?
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Why not feed under 1's during the night?
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mears · 21/12/2004 09:42
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