I have a 4 mth old ds who has been mixed fed sinced birth. He is mainly af to be fair but he does has a few bf and i bf him a lot to settle him too as he isnt keen on a dummy.
He roughly feeds and settles fine during the dday so that isn't really a problem. It's the nighttime that is becoming a bit of a nightmare. He used to have a last af about 8 or 9 and then sleep till about 2am so he was sort of going a bit longer than in the day-about 5 to 6 hrs which was great. I tended to bootle feed him then and he would then maybe wake about 5 0r 6 am when I would put him in bed with me and bf.
However, the past couple of wks or so he has been going to bed the usual time but then waking 3 hrs later at around 11 or 12 ish. I am then giving a bottle as normal. Then he is waking 3 hrs after that again and i still put him in bed and bf. He isn't really settling though and last night he was just bf off and on all night. Im done in. I would expect this off a newborm, but he seems to be going backwards rather than forwards.
Do you think this may be a famous 'growth spurt' or what? I am also wondering whether he is just uncomfy in his crib now he is getting older and maybe needs his cot as i remember my second ds being like this and then sleeping through as soon as he was in a cot. Or should i maybe just give him another bottle at the second feed just to 'zonk' him out? Im happy bf and i don't want to stop but I go back to work soon and I need some kind of improved routine.
Thanks