Breastfed baby going from 2nd feeds to waking once!! How can I stop waking to check her breathing???

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hi suddenly my baby stopped waking so much she's 19 weeks! I've waited for this moment for ages and now I'm constantly checking her breathing and last night gave her a dream feed coz I'm so worried about cit death any advice for me please?

Meant to say 2hrly feeds phone corrected and cot death not cit death!!! Damn iPhone lol x

I invested in an Angelcare monitor. You can see a light on the monitor for everytime baby breathes, the light flashes. Well, that's what I did. I'm sure you could get one cheap off of ebay. I still have mine, and would sell it, but now live in Oz.

We have a video monitor which is fab. About £100 though. Also have a breathing monitor which is like a pad under the mattress. It is something we haven't used with dc2 but used a lot with PFB.
Less night waking takes a bit of getting used to. When my son first slept through I worried about it, now I'm over that and grateful for the sleep
As long as you follow all the advice re cot death precautions there isn't much more you can do. It is thankfully extremely rare.

Worried about him rather!

Can't really afford an angel care mOnitor also feel a bit silly getting one at this stage!! Hopefully it will continue and I'll get uses to it!! X

You will get used to it.

My ds2 went from waking every 2hours to sleeping 7pm until anywhere between 6&8 just like that. The first day I woke up an realised it was 8am and I hadn't had to get up my heart missed a beat and I RAN to see him. Then he got really grumpy because I had woken him up.

Iirc, the majority of cot deaths happen in the first 4 months of a baby's life. Your baby has passed this 'danger' point now, so I hope this puts your mind at rest a little bit.