My DS is 4 months old and exc BF. He's a semi co-sleeper. Has always been BF on demand and recently this has spaced out into roughly every 3 hours: 7, 10, 1, 4, 7 and then to bed at 8-8.30 maybe with a bit of a top up. (When I say to bed, I mean he goes to sleep in his bugaboo in pram mode with a bit of jigging.)He then usually wakes up around 11.30 - for what I dream will one day be the final feed of the night - and is so sleepy it's easy to put him back in his pram and go to sleep myself. Then he starts to wake every two hours, like 2, then 4, and then every hour, 5, 6, 7. From 4 I bring him in bed with me and feed him lying down as I'm so sleepy.
Surely he doesn't need these feeds?! At first I found it nice and cosy and the feeding helped me fall asleep but now it's doing my head in. I want to sleep by my self and I want him to eat less at night. AIBU? Recently we have tried DH going to him to 'nurse' instead if he wakes within an hour of the last feed but he cries and cries for over an hour and then I end up giving in and feeding him again. It's getting to the point where he isn't eating much at 7 as he's eaten so much in early morning already. If we carry on trying to space out the night feeds will he eventually get used to it or will we have a crying all night baby which seems much harder to stomach than a feeding all night baby? I cant believe this situation is going to resolve itself without some intervention. But how?