Ds2 is almost 8mo.
We have been weaning since 5mo so he is now having 3 meals per day with puddings. Eats protein, veg, fruit and carbs. He likes his food.
He also has between 20-24oz milk per day. Including an 8oz dream feed every night at 10pm which he demolishes.
AND YET he wakes up 2-3 times every night. He is crying now (9.40pm). He will wake up and cry every night between 1-2am. At this stage we usually manage to settle him in his cot after 30-40 mins of trying with cuddles and some nights calpol/nurofen (he already has 2 teeth and I suspect more are coming).
He wakes again between 4-5.30 and at this late hour the only way we can settle is by co-sleeping.
Is this normal?? Ds1 never did this. I don't want to co sleep. In fact I CANNOT relax or get comfy in bed with him so it's most often DH who gets into the spare bed with DS2 from 4-5am onwards. Next to my husband he will happily sleep until 7am snoring his little head off, his fingers grasping a handful of DH's chest hair.
I genuinely do not think he needs milk in the night - he does not cry for milk in the morning when he wakes up. If he gets up for the day at 7am he will have his baby cereal with cows milk at 8am (perfectly content until then) and his first bottle d the day at 10am just before his nap. So if he is not demanding milk in the morning then he cannot need it at night, right??
Is it possible for a baby to just be waking at night like this for comfort/cuddles?
And if so, do I need to do something to FIX this and train him out f it?? Or will he just grow out of it in good time??
All my friends babies seem to be either STTN by now or if they're breast fed waking for 1 or two quick feeds which would be preferable to the awful waking and crying for no discernible fucking reason that we have several times per night.
Please tell me I am not alone in this??
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FF, fully weaned 7mo is a shit sleeper, waking up multiple times per night nur not for milk. Is this within the realms of normal?
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BotBotticelli · 18/03/2016 21:52
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