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Infant feeding

Get advice and support with infant feeding from other users here.

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If your breastfed baby wasn't sleeping through by 7 months, when did they start?

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CantSleepWontSleep · 19/09/2006 08:07

There are 5 of us on our post natal thread who are still having to bf during the night, but all of our RL friends seem to have babies that sleep through, so I'm curious to find out others' experiences. Also, when they did start going through, had you changed anything, or did it just happen by itself?

Oh, and if Popsycal comes on this thread then I'm going to stick my fingers in my ears and go la la la la la!

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Tatties · 19/09/2006 10:55

17mths here and still waiting! Well actually stopped waiting for it to happen a long time ago. It's just so much easier to bf at night than to do anything else, and I don't waste time worrying about it now. I truly believe my ds is not ready to sleep through yet, and also have faith that he will do it when he is ready.

Flamesparrow · 19/09/2006 10:56

If it was to me... he is a little git on the nights that DH has had him and only wakes the once (which is making me think that he just smells the milk in our room...)

UniSarah · 19/09/2006 20:00

hello munz
Not 7 month yet but no signs of sleeping through here either at 6.5m/o, on a good night hes awake once, on a bad night 4 or 5 times, most times a bit of boob sends him right back to sleep. I've been asked if I'm interested in talking to a journo whos looking for a mum with non sleep throu 6 m/o. This is an interesting thread to keep an eye on.
I suspect lots of people in RL lie too. OR hae sleective memories when talking about babies now grown up (like MiL does).

munz · 19/09/2006 20:08

i'd be intrested sarah with that.

today I got told the 'problem' with his sleeping his is napping - apparently children are not ment to sleep for more than 3 hours during the day, so I should be waking him up and letting him be so ratty and arsey he sleeps at night notice the tension here with that comment??

iris66 · 19/09/2006 20:23

am watching with interest - 8mth DS is killing me using me as his dummy so we've just launched into the "no cry sleep solution" routine. Anyone else tried it?

Donk · 19/09/2006 20:45

ds was 2.3 before he slept through. He hadn't been bfed at night for ages.........

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CantSleepWontSleep · 19/09/2006 20:47

munz - I've heard that before. Think it's an idea propelled by swmnbn. Didn't realise that Joey did sleep so much in the day though. DD doesn't even do 2 hours daytime napping. How many naps of what length does he have in the day?

Iris - there is someone on our Feb thread just started that, but it isn't one of the aforementioned 5 (think it's a ff baby). There are definitely some Mners who've used it though - I know Franny&Zooey is a big advocate.

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munz · 19/09/2006 20:50

on a typical day he'll have one about 2 hours after waking up for 1.5 to 2 hours (normally althou not always) quick half hour before lunch at 11 ish. (about an hour after waking form the first one) then afternoon nap is aaround 2-3 ish sometimes might have one later on/longer but as a rule we don't let him nap after 4 - perhaps that's an issue? what does pippa do?

i've tried waking him up early, keeping him awake and it's a nightmare, today for example thou he had 45 mins at 8.00, then 3 hours between 12.30-3.30 (we went to P&T and it kinda knocked him out! lol) then nothing till 6.45 for bedtime so watch this space! lol - alhou not expecting miricles!

munz · 19/09/2006 20:51

whats that then iris? I don't really like the idea of CC thou.

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CantSleepWontSleep · 19/09/2006 21:04

munz - no two days are the same with Pippa! But if we're not going out at times which interrupt her then she tends to have a nap about 3-3.5hrs after getting up. This can be anything from 40 mins to 1hr 15 mins. If we put her down earlier, even if she seems really tired, then she only tends to sleep for about 30 mins. She'll then normally have another one in the afternoon, which could be anything from 25 mins to an hour. I try and time it so that if we're out we drive back when she needs to nap, and I just drive around for longer if necessary, so that she gets about 40 mins. If she's in her cot she's all too likely to wake after 25-30 mins in the afternoon.

Today was a good day, as she did 1 hr 15 this morning (starting just before 10am), and then I drove her around for almost 40 mins this afternoon from 2:50-3:30. She then went to bed at 8, went to sleep at 10 past, woke again half an hour later and screamed and head banged the bottom of her cot repeatedly whilst I tried to settle her in a sensible position and apply teething gel, and went back to sleep after about 10-15 mins.

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Clayhead · 19/09/2006 21:07

Sorry, not had time to read the whole thread but dd 1 year 2 months and ds was 2...

iris66 · 19/09/2006 21:07

the no-cry sleep solution is a book by Elizabeth Pantley. Its focus is on having sleep cues for the baby (routine/music/phrases/rocking/feeding etc) & adjusting/shortening/removing them gently over time so that the LO can fall asleep on their own. I spent 1/2 hour tonight unlatching ds as he was falling asleep(then having to relatch repeatedly when he woke up again) but eventually he drifted off unattached & I was able to put him in his cot. No crying. Previously he'd only fall asleep sucking & wake up as soon as I unlatched him. the trick is to take them off you before they're finally asleep apparently. I'm hoping this might help him resettle himself during the hellish 11-3am slot we're having at the mo (just been in floods reading the CC thread and know I just can't go there ) Fingers crossed this'll work - even though I know it may take a few weeks to complete.

Spidermama · 19/09/2006 21:09

Mine all slept through round about the one year mark with a little gentle persuasion.
DH was instrumental in keeping them off mum in the night so they soon stopped bothering to wake up since they knew they'd only get him anyway.

iris66 · 19/09/2006 21:10

cantsleepwontsleep - your LOs daytime naps sound like my DSs - though we seem to have 1030am as a firm 1st nap time now (variable length)

cod · 19/09/2006 21:12

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lorna3586 · 19/09/2006 21:12

Mine didnt sleep through till just before his 1st birthday. When he was 8months old he was still waking up to 6times a night for bf. I put a post on here for help and everyone was great. I used the baby whisperers method and got him down to waking once or twice which was great compared to 6times. I didnt do the method regligiously id do it every time he woke but then give him a bottle at 5 or 6 in the morning. Just before his first birthday he started to sleep through naturally i hadnt done the method for months.

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CantSleepWontSleep · 19/09/2006 21:18

Cod - one more spanner in the works there - DH lives and works abroad during the week, so opportunities for him to do this are limited. He does read MN though, so carry on laying into him and maybe he'll pick up on the necessity himself .

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cod · 19/09/2006 21:19

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CantSleepWontSleep · 19/09/2006 21:19

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PatsyJ · 19/09/2006 21:36

DD was breastfed until 14 mths but started to sleep thru at just before 10 mths! Never thought it was going to happen and like you all other babies I knew were sleeping thru MONTHS before that!!! Had figured it was because they were bottlefed but have had that argue poo-poohed before.....

lorna3586 · 19/09/2006 21:50

I agree with you Patsy bottle fed babys tend to be better sleepers not all but most. Think its because formula has a slower transit so it fills them up for longer, when there newborn its only really hunger that wakes them then they just get in to bad habits from then.

kayzed · 19/09/2006 23:01

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curlew · 19/09/2006 23:33

Haven't read the whole thread - but people in RL lie. One in a hundred(ish) babies sleep through - most like mine get there in the end - sometimes at 3, or 4 or 5. Roll with it - it's only a very small epice of life. When I was a student, i had 4 hours sleep a night because I was usually drunk or high. When I was a high flying civil servant, I got very little sleep because I was in the House of Commons for late night sittings. When I was the mother of a baby, I got very little sleep because I was looking after my baby. I know which one I value most.
"This also passes"

CaptainFlameSparrow · 20/09/2006 07:59

Curlew - I have always opted for sleeping over drinking etc I likes my sleep I do

Ooooooh just found [hmmm]!!!

But - after 3 or 4 feeds a night... fed him solids at 10pm when he woke for a feed... only 2 feeds last night. I feel much more human!

CaptainFlameSparrow · 20/09/2006 07:59

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