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

[starlover]

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

[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?

[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?????

[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).

[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

[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]

[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.

[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 !

[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....

[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.

[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.