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24 week old waking more and more, just started on solids

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rooibosh · 09/11/2007 09:12

My 24 week old ds has started waking more and more in the past 2 weeks. Has been put to bed at 7 since one month old, often shh'd to sleep but not fed to sleep. Since 3 months has woken 2-3 times and for a while (4/5 months) could be settled back to sleep without milk if woke before 12am or so. Couple of weeks ago stopped being settleable without being fed (he is bf) and the wake ups got earlier and earlier, 9.15pm being the earliest (woke 7.45 the following night and dh managed to settle him back but it took 30 mins). Hasn't been settled without milk since. When he wakes early in the evening he then wakes between 1.5 and 3 hours later all night. Fed 5 times last night. Also last night wouldn't settle after feed so I left him crying for a while.
Started giving solids on Tuesday, when he was 24 weeks, thinking he must be hungry and he had 2 ice cubes of sweet potato and 2 of apple last night. He was also weighed yesterday and had dropped a few centiles (from under 9th to under 2nd, but born on 9th at 37 weeks), so feeding him did seem right thing. Had 2.5 hour sleeps on tue and wed am but is now waking after 30 mins (as I write). I felt we'd tried to do everyting right yet it's still all going wrong. Please help
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Habbibu · 09/11/2007 09:31

He could be heading into the 6 month growth spurt, and if that's the case then it is more milk that he needs - sweet potato and apple aren't as calorific as milk, so I'd up his milk feeds a bit in the daytime if you can, and see if that helps.

It's also very possible that his night wakings are related to any or many other things - teething, developmental changes, a bug, etc. I am sympathetic - this happened to us just after we started weaning at 26 weeks (BLW, and she ate shedloads from the start). Sometimes they just go through changes, and it's hard to accept that it's not anything you've done or are doing. It's a phase! It will pass...

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nowwearefour · 09/11/2007 20:13

THis is something like the 3rd thread on this subject in as many days. I am experiencing the exact same thing. It is so terribly depressing/ V hard to cope with. I am at the end of my tether. She was sleeping through now waking and literally up half the night. IT must be a combination of so many different things. We are going through it together (your baby is 2 days younger than mine!). I am laying off the solids a bit now as i think i overloaded her with sweet potato- made her constipated but that seems better now. Just allowing her to feed lots whenever. Hard with a toddler though. Let's hang on to the fact it is a phase and will pass!!!

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rooibosh · 09/11/2007 22:51

I can only imagine it's something to do with the clocks going back as well grr. We've got a toddler too,so it's pretty shattering. Useful to think from previous responses that food doesn't make that much difference as that'll stop me forcing it on him! Hope your nights improve nowwearefour

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nowwearefour · 10/11/2007 12:31

rooibush how was your night ours was remarkably better but she wont sleep in the day now!

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rooibosh · 10/11/2007 16:06

It was a bit better as dh got ds back to sleep at 7.45pm by going in briefley then leaving him to cry for a few mins. He then woke at 11 when i went to bed and 12.45 when dh got in and 4 and then 5.15 but cooed and grumbled himself back to sleep that time. Slept well in day today.
We will go to bed very quietly tonight (he's not even in our room anymore!)
Glad your night was better though!