Health visitor came round yesterday as DS nearly 18 weeks recently had a spell in hospital which had completely buggered his routine up. Prior to that he was self settling in cot, and feeding once a night,however now he's feeding constantly at night,it's like having a newborn again, up every hour and a half.
Her advice is to move him to his own room, let DP settle him at night, and not feed him at all when he wakes, as she thinks he is waking out of habit. That's all very well but am not going to be using CC or any variation of, and DP isn't a lot of help at night at the best of times. Also want him in with us for at least 6 months if possible for obvious reasons.
Surely at just 4 months its not unreasonable for him to still need to feed once a night? He's on 91st centile so a big boy, and does seem hungry a lot. She's also suggested trying him on solids once a day to see if that has any effect. So having been told repeatedly not to start solids until 6months, and having looked into some of the evidence behind this I'm now a bit confused.
So AIBU to ignore some of her advice? Thing is I am so shattered i would be very tempted to try solids and see if it makes a difference, and she's the expert surely? Sorry for long waffle post!