Anyone who had trouble bf got good news about getting a nights sleep?

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I know there are several threads similar, but wondering if anyone has experience of their lo sleeping well despite difficulties bf.
To explain, DD2 4 months feeding in night sometimes every hour and a half. BF difficult, DD gets v frusrated waiting for let down, and won't suck for long after let down. All fine, weight gain good etc, just TIRED! Please tell me I will get lots of sleep soon!

Don't worry - you will!

There are so many possible reasons why babiess wake up at night but no hard and fast rules. She might just stop waking up so much as she gots older of her own occord or you could try several things such as enchouraginf more feeding in the day etc.

There is a really nice book called the 'no cry sleep solution' by Elaine Pantley and that is a good place to get those kind of ideas.

Have you considered co-sleeping? We started part co-sleeping from about 6 months on and in terms of sleep, it just about saved our lives! We still wanted our evenings so used to settle him in his cot for the first part of the night and then brought him into bed with us later on. It felt so natural. My DS loved it. I loved it. I breastfed him lying down and decided to stop changing his nappy if it was just wet (if he was sleeping through, Iwouldn't be doing it anyway). It all just sorted itself out from there.

I didn't even consider co-sleeping as an option, but wished that I had of done because it made perfect sense and had I done it sooner, it would have saved us allot of sleep-deprivation. I wont bang on about the safety issues, but I would be happy to share some facts about it that reassured me that it was safe. Also, there is 'Three in a Bed' which you can read if you are interested in co-sleeping.

Different things work for different babies & parents. There are no hard and fast rules, co-sleeping is just what suited & worked for us.

But you WILL SLEEP AGAIN!!!

DS nursed a lot (I wouldn't have said that it was difficult overall, but at 3 months he would sleep for four hours and then want to feed at least every two after that) and we semi-coslept from 3 months through to 9 month. It saved my sleep and hence my sanity.

hi, just quick reply as on the hop, but been co-sleeping since day one which was fantastic until dd decided at about 10 weeks that she didn't like feeding with me lying down !!