Night feeders thread part 3 - Up all night feeding? Come join! [title edited by MNHQ]

[mrsmugoo]

Part 3!

Quick recap - DS, 17 weeks, EBF (stubborn little bottle refuser), crap sleeper! Super knackered Mummy, surviving on 1-2 hour sleeps :(

So I am hoping for a better night tonight seeing as bedtime went smoothly. Last night was hideous and I've eaten a twirl, a bounty and a salted caramel brownie today just to get through the day!

He was asleep for 9pm but then woke up crying at 10pm. I managed to settle him with rocking and soothing but he woke up again crying at 23.30pm. Nothing I do will make him go back to sleep and he is wide awake

I'm too tired to deal with this.

Hope he finally slept for you Writer.

This one was down by 7:30, woke briefly at 11:30 but self settled without me attending to him then went to 4am before I fed him. He woke at 5:30 and I brought him in with me where he dropped back off without feeding til 7.

To update on how I am getting on with night weaning, using 'Nursies when the sun shines'.

I have read this to my 18 m old every night for about a month now. I tried stopping night feeds after 1wk, but the result was massive tantrums in the night, that were waking everyone else up too. I patiently continued night feeds on demand for a few more wks. After night feeds ramping up to every 30-90 mins, I decided enough was enough. I read the book at bedtime, ds has his last feed, lasting as long as he wants, then we say goodnight to boobies and goodnight to the sun on his grow clock. I have allowed 1short comfort feed when he wakes in the evening, & then worn a high neck T-shirt to bed a refused any feeds during the night. I have patiently tried to comfort him, saying boobies are sleep, look its still dark & offering cuddles, but he spent 3 days screaming, biting me, hitting me. 2 nights ago he did this from 11pm-4.30am. I was determined not to give up though, and let him learn he can have it if he creates enough. The final straw came last night, when he deliberately head butted me I the face, when I gently refused his request to feed. I removed him from my bed and put him back in his own, telling him he couldn't sleep with me if he was hurting me. Lots of screaming later he came in for a cuddle and slept through till morning (6 hrs), the longest he has ever slept.

I feel hopefully that we have started to turn a corner and is finally excepting no feeds in the night.

Hope this helps some of you.

Thank you nar4, food for thought. If you don't mind me asking, 18 months seems like along time to still continue with nights feeds, I presume you co-sleep? Is it something you are just ok with?

DS is only just short of 6 months and I am already very definitely planning on night weaning in about 4-6 weeks!

I hope everyone gets a good night tonight, I'm off to bed now so that hopefully I can get a long stretch in!

Hello 4 month sleep regression :-(

Oh well he's been asleep since 8.30pm so if 2.45am is gonna be a get up and feed for him I really can't moan I suppose! How long did the regression last for everyone?

Mine has been going on for about 6-7 weeks now.....

He regressed and never recovered. I'm hopeful though that one day he will decide sleeping for more than 3 hours straight is the way to go.

I'm sure he will writer!! Is there a pattern to his wake ups? Or are they random times?

Hi Mugoo. Yes we do co-sleep. I don't mind co-sleeping at all but unfortunately my youngest 2 never seemed to get the hang of helping themselves while I slept, like my older children did. Since my youngest 2 both co-sleep I did invest in a bigger bed (7'X7') to give us all more space to sleep comfortably.

Well last night I didn't actually get to go to sleep properly until 5am - that's his personal best at refusing to sleep. The only reason I got any sleep was because at 5am I bought him into bed with me and he slept for 4.5 hours.

The reason he is continually waking is because he ends up on his front and can't get back. So when he stirs on his sleep and realises he can't move that's when things start to go downhill.

When he's in bed with me he has to sleep on his back so we don't have the issue at all, hence why he sleeps for so long.

Writer I know it's a lot of £ but I ended up getting the sleepyhead grand pod for ds2's cot as he's a roller and will sleep about 6-7 hours then wake himself rolling and not being able to get back onto his back!!

sleepyhead

Not sure if this will work writer?

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Sorry that won't work, this probably won't either!!
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Nope can't do it!! Anyway he can't roll in it!!

I will get myself on google!!

I'd be prepared to spend £100's in order to get a good night sleep!!!

I've heard good things about the pod things.

I'm not ready to write about our night yet as I'm too tired but hello all!

Writer the smaller one is 0-8m and is &99 and the larger 8-36m is £149 however we've outgrown the smaller one at 4 months (DS2 was 15lb3 and 65cm when last checked 11th August to give you an idea)

I can't remember if I've already he said this in this thread, but with my rolling DS, I decided to just leave him - and he now happily sleeps on his tummy!

Mrs I tried it and he was unhappy on his tummy. He would sleep on his side for 30-60 mins after sleeping the majority of the night on his back and then get annoyed he was on his tummy when he ended up there!!

He loves sleeping on his tummy, I have always left him in that position - but when he stirs in his sleep and realises he is stuck (he can't roll off his front) that's when the nightmare starts!!

How was everyone's night? We had 2 wakings/feeds. Bed at 9 (usually it's 8-8.30 but we had a meltdown before last feed!), up at 2.30 and 5.30. Let's see what this regression brings tonight!!

So glad of this thread and your catnapping one Mrs M! This little one's sleeping is getting worse. Been too tired to read and post. Day naps not really happening now unless she is absolutely exhausted and in the buggy. Night time sleep might be 4h max in a row then she feeds every 2h. She seems hungry, she's a few days short of 6 months so we haven't started her with real food yet, but is also a very cuddly baby that needs a lot of contact. Am worried I've created her dependency on milk to go back to sleep although once she's fed and is back in the cot she can sometimes suck her thumb back to sleep. Why am I posting. I think it's because every day I spend hours agonising over why she hasn't slept very well and what I should try to improve things. Does anyone else do that? Do these things just improve? How much do I really need to intervene? Now I go to bed as early as I can manage. I don't have spare energy for training her.

Hi Yorkie. I spend a lot of time wondering what I am doing wrong and asking myself why my baby, aged 5 months, won't sleep through whereas other babies will.

I'm also guilty of creating a milk dependency to get DS to go to sleep but to be honest, I'm so exhausted I just take the easy route!

Hi cannot, my night was as unpredictable as ever.

22.00 = fell asleep after lots of grizzling.

22.00-01.30 = asleep.
01.30-03.15 = awake.
03.15-07.30 = asleep.
07.30-08.00am = awake.
08.00-09.45 = asleep.

Up for the day at 09.45am.

He then had a 2hr 20min nap at 12ish.

He then had a 30 minute nap about 4ish and another 30 minute nap at 6pm.

I bought him up to bed just before 8pm and he fell asleep whilst feeding. He's currently asleep in my arms and I'm too scared to transfer him to his cot because I know he will wake up.

Thought I'd try my luck and put him in his cot - he woke up within about 2 minutes and started crying. I'm guessing it will take me at least an hour to settle him again...

Oh writer sorry.

I promise not to moan about my 2 wake ups