DD2 is just a few days away from her first birthday.
In most ways she is what society would call a 'good' baby. Very contented in the day etc.
But her night time sleep just seems to get worse. She has on three separate occasions gone a few weeks of only waking once a night. But for the past six (ish) weeks she has been waking two or three times a night for a feed (she was also waking in the evenings but I sorted that out about a week ago by pushing her bedtime back about 20 minutes).
I've kept on hoping she will just sort herself out. But now I'm feeling I need to give her a helping hand.
She is offered one breastfed in the day, which she takes about 50% of the time. She has good bedtime routine, culminating in bath then feed in darkened room. She usually goes down awake, sometimes grumbles a little but generally takes herself off to sleep. Virtually never fed to sleep.
On a good night she will sleep 7.30pn through to about 1.30, when she wakes looking for a feed. Then she will settle again usually awake after her feed. She sleeps for 2.5-3 hours before waking again looking for a feed.
She won't take a feed first thing in the morning but does eat a good breakfast.
She eats fairly well in the day I think.
She has a good daytime nap.
I'm thinking of maybe trying to just feed her once overnight. So, do I just decide for example that I'll feed her at her first wake up and not again. Or do I set myself a rule that I won't feed her until a certain time?
I don't actually mind feeding her once in the night even if technically she doesn't need the nutrition of it.
Thanks for any thoughts, hints or tips.