I don't know if this is the correct topic but here goes....

[LilRedWG]

DS is 6.5 months and still feeding in the night, in fact the past couple of weeks he has been feeding every three hours at night instead of his usual 11pm and 3am and I'm exhausted. He eats lots of solid food but if anything his milk intake is upped. My supply hasn't dropped, so it's not that. Please tell me that he will magically start sleeping through next week.

Yours hopefully...

I do hope he starts magically sleeping through next week :)

If you don't do already, it might be worth nursing DS before feeding him solids. So he is filling up on the higher calorie breastmilk and just filling in the gaps with lower calorie weaning food.

I don't know if you want to hear this, but my twins started feeding more in the night at 6.5/7 month too. Eventually they were feeding 2 or three times each between midnight and 6am.

Things improved at about 9 months, when the feeds dropped to 1 or 2 feeds each. They still feed this often now (10 months). But then they've never slept through in a regular basis.

I hope your sleep improves soon

There is a growth spurt at 6mths, I believe.

But I can't promise on the sleeping...

There is a growth spurt around 6 months so this may be a temporary thing .

Agree with Babies, try bfing an hour before offering solids as this may help as may offering him more protein in his diet.

Thought you might like this too.

jilted's link is great. This is also good:

www.askdrsears.com/topics/sleep-problems/night-weaning-12-alternatives-all-night-nurser

Thanks all. Am lying in a tent hoping that DS doesn't keep the whole site awake tonight. I'll read the links when I get home.

Last night wasn't too bad (only. one feed between midnight and morning.