Quick Survey - Night Feeds and Sleeping Arrangements

[motherpeculiar]

Ok, I would like to know how old your baby is, how often you feed them at night and whether they share your room or not...I have a half-baked theory that I want to check out

DD2 is 14 weeks, feeds between 2 and 5 times per night, shares our room

thanks

tired MP

[jessicaandbumpsmummy]

jess bottlefed, in with us til 6 weeks - woke 3/4 times per night.

moved to own room and woke 2 times per night

she will be 1 tomorrow and still quite often wakes at around 4.30am for a feed.

[sweetkitty]

DD from 6 weeks cosleeping woke at 11 and 5-6am for a feed

Dropped 11pm feed at about 3 months

Co slept until 9 months when she had feed at 7.30pm next one at 5-6am so no cosleeping for us did not mean endless BFing in the night.

She's a year now sleeps in her own cot until she wakes at 5-6am then comes in with us, she has beaker of milk now at 8.30am when she gets up.

[eidsvold]

over 8 months - still shares our room - wakes once in the night.... - too cold to get out of bed to her at the moment so she can stay there for a couple of more months and then i might put her in her room....

[Ruthiebaby]

Ds is 5mths. He goes to bed at 8-9ish and has a feed at 5am normally. I actually sleep in the nursery with him (we have a double bed in there). I've been in there since I was pregnant so as to get a better nights sleep.

No signs of moving back into the room with dh !

[hewlettsdaughter]

motherpeculiar, in answer to your question (how to stop the night feeds) - I thought it would be really hard but then I realised I was just in the habit of offering the breast when dd woke. We were prepared for a few awful nights of trying to get her back off to sleep without it but actually it wasn't very hard at all. She was 12 months though - so probably didn't need the night feeds by then.

[motherpeculiar]

yeah I am like that Chicagomum - plug her straight in (love that phrase!)

Really I guess I am worried about her waking DD1 (who is a nightmare if woken at night)

maybe I should give it a go then

or maybe I shouldn't

[mind gone walkabout from lack of sleep emoticon]

[chicagomum]

i would say that after moving dd and ds into their own rooms i fed less i think when they were right next to me in the crib as soon as they stirred i'd grab them and "plug them in" where as when i had to get up and go next door i was a bit slower to do anything and sometimes they just settled by themselves, also i think they woke less as not being disturbed by dh's snoring

[spidermama]

6 months old tomorrow.
Starts in cot next to bed, ends up in bed.
2-3 feeds per night. (Don't really notice because I don't wake up properly to feed him).

[motherpeculiar]

Vicdubya got my theory which was that in your room they get fed more often. However I don't see this borne out in the responses so far at all so I think I'll keep her where she is just now. Don't want to get even more exhausted walking from her room to ours 3 or 4 or 5 times a night.

I was thinking that maybe if you couldn't hear them as loudly they settle themselves and so it all sorts itself out (although Tipex experience does sort of bear this out, still I think you may be a statistical blip Tipex ).

My DD1 was sleeping through from 12 to 7 or 8 from about 7 weeks old, she was in her own room from about two weeks old so that's where my theory was emanating from (mind you she must be in strong contention for the universe's worst sleeper now at three, unfortunately)

Bang goes my happy little theory then.

Might take after ZoeC and try introducing a bottle of formula for her last feed to try to get her go a bit longer.

BTW those of you who blithely say "then we dropped the Xam feed as I was tired of it" - how, how, how?????

[Spoo]

DS is 6 months. Slept in own room from 10 days old (shoot me!!) has just started sleeping through the night. Last feed at 7p.m. Dream feed anywhere between 10 and 12. Wakes about 5 ish and has morning feed at 7. Would like him to drop the 5 - 7 a.m. regular wakes but problematic due to dummies.

What's your theory?

[starlover]

ds ia 23 weeks
sleeps through the night
in his own room

[hewlettsdaughter]

DD slept in our room until about 8 months too. We continued night feeds until she was 12 months (when I decided I didn't want to do them any more!)

[Windermere]

ds slept in our room until 8 months. He stopped waking for a night feed at 11 weeks but continued having a feed at 10pm until 5 months.

[Mummyvicky]

Ds is 4 weeks, sleeps in baby hammock in our room, breastfeeds 3 hourly day and night.
Im very interested to see what the "theory" is !!

[highlander]

DS is 10 months - slept in his own room from 3 weeks.

Has never slept through. Wakes 5-6 times per night, DH goes to him first and he sometimes settles. Gets boob if he's very upset - soemtimes he is hungry, othertimes he's just comfort sucking.

[Tinker]

Have a virtually identical pattern to berolina

[Tinker]

Baby nearly 9 weeks, shares room, wakes at about 3 or 4 then again at about 6 or 7.

[vicdubya]

Regularly

[vicdubya]

If your theory is that if in your own room they wake more often for feeds (just a guess?), then no, ds was in his own room from 8 weeks, but regulalry fed 1-2 times per night until around 11 months, & was still feeding sometimes at night at 13 months, and waking at 5.30am for his morning feed.

That was when I stopped the night feeds & 5.30 thing.

I had had enough by then!

[Magscat]

DD is 6.5 months & been in her own room for a month now. Feeds approx 10.30pm & 4am on a good night. A really bad night can be every 2 hours. Usual is prob 10.30pm, 1am & 5am ish.

DS was in own room from 5 months too but slept through (with feed at 10.30pm) from 2 months old.

I.e. same routine for both kids but totally different sleep patterns. DD doesn't selep much in the day either whereas DS was once of the last in his nursery class to give up lunch sleep

[ZoeC]

dd2 is in the cot in her room, mixed fed. has bottle at 7pm, i do a breast dreamfeed at 11pm then she doesn't feed until 8am (bottle).

On solely breast, she was feeding 11, 2, 5, 8, still in her own room. Think a lot of it was for comfort tbh.

She's 4 months old now.

[misdee]

dd3 is err 5months old, breatfed, and sleeps in my room in a moses basket, but gets moved to my bed if she wakes for a feed.