After many months of non sleep we have been making progress with DS, now 6mth who for the last month has finally conceeded that sleeping in an evening is a good idea! We are now getting him down at 730pm, and he goes anywhere from 3-5 hours, though the 5 hours is only in the last few days
He is teething terribly, and after this initially great start to the night the sleep pattern is very random. On a good night we might have another couple of 3 hour stretches, more likely we might get a 2/2/2 or 2/2/1, he sometimes feeds for 30 mins and other times 10 mins. I have tried a tough love approach and sending in DH (I bf at night so 'smell!' tempting...) but I think because of the teeth issue is has been comfort as much as necessity
Friends 'dream feed' and reckon it helps them get a good stint at sleep, so I wondered what the mn concensus was.
My concern is that if, after just months of persuading him to sleep, I wake him to feed him we might actually go backwards
Anyone any thoughts good or bad. FWIW I will probably try this week, but interested to know your experiences
BTW he was ebf to 4mth, and now has 2 bottles a day, 1 lunch and 1 pre bed, rest bf still
thanks