Hi all, my baby until 4 months old would breast feed to sleep in bed, have on average 6hrs in his cot, then have 2 lots of 2 hour stretches with feeds in the bed with us.
Then he hit 4 months and kept waking and got very ill so we tried cosleeping which worked really well, and would suckle 2-4x a night, and didn't disturb me, but has made me get back trouble.
Now he's 6 months, I have 2 months before I'm back to work and my back can't take it so have taken a friend's advice and started the controlled crying to put him down at night and day naps.
From day 1 he hasn't spent too long crying before settling, and am confident that is working, although it certainly hasn't got shorter and shorter by day, in fact it can be 5 mins or 20 to settle, it depends.
But it feels like he's waking more in the night now and am not refusing him feeds, he comes into bed for a feed and I put him straight back. The first night I watched him wake up, look around and after 10mins put himself back to sleep-great! But the next night he lay there for 40 mins and ended up crying for me. Each night has felt it's got worse.
Help, need advice as I believe he needed to learn to self settle, but was told that by earning to do this, sleep length improves and aligns reduce.....
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Breast fed 6-month old waking in the night despite newly introduced controlled crying
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puttbles · 07/04/2013 15:09
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