atm ds goes down at 7 having fed and then wakes for a feed at 10 or 11. I don't feed him til he grunts a bit for a bit, but he doesn't fully wake.
then he'll do a 3 hours stint til 1 or 2am...however then he will start straining and being restless...he cries and I try to feed him again two hours later, he isn't totally hungry but needs to suck as he is windy/pooing. i change him a couple of times a night (up to 4 times)...basically from 4am onwards he is restless and although we can get an hour or so in, rest of the time i'm feeding him, and have taken to taking him into bed with me from about 5am or so just to try to settle him (he is in cot next to bed normally).
he won't take a dummy, and i know that he can go 5 hours between feeds as he's done it on his own...i'd really like to space the feeds to 3 or 4 hours so that he does actually feed really well.
so before i do something stupid like give him water at night, any tips or thoughts? will this stop on it's own, or is it that i'm not feeding enough through the day (every 3 hours or so, but sometimes he sleeps a 4 hours stint in the day and is this the problem?)
he is 8 weeks old today.
any thoughts gratefully received.
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