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BF, BLW 9 mo that used to sleep through the night now waking regularly for feeds - what can I do?

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Carikube · 16/02/2011 17:02

DD2 slept through (8-7) from about 8 weeks; she was EBF and everything was just dandy (and I was very smug Blush). She is now 9mo and for the past couple of months she has been waking at least once, if not twice/three times a night for a feed. It doesn't seem to be comfort feeding as she has a really good go and then settles right back down.

We are doing BLW, she loves food and would appear to be getting lots judging by her nappies, so I can't really understand why she is still so hungry at night (she is still having as many BF per day as she did before we started weaning). As I also have a 22 mo who likes to randomly wake up screaming sometimes and then run me ragged during the day, I am v tired and would love DD2 to go back to sleeping through.

For info, DD2 was ff so we didn't have this issue as when she woke in the night I just cuddled her back to sleep (too lazy to go and make a bottle Wink and the night wakings didn't last too long at that age. With DD2 it is just too easy to whip out a boob but I am now getting too tired...

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Carikube · 16/02/2011 17:05

Sorry, DD1 was ff

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InmaculadaConcepcion · 16/02/2011 19:33

Poor you, I know how it feels.

Although it seems like hunger, chances are it IS comfort feeding. Because this is bang on the 9-month sleep regression, which throws a lot of babies' sleeping patterns down the crapper for a while.

If she was a good sleeper previously, chances are she'll go back to being so once the developmental spurts associated with the 9moSR are past.

Quite a few threads in the Sleep section about it, if you want to see what other people have done about it.

But mostly, it's a case of just riding it out.

HTH Smile

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