My daughter has been breastfed since birth and it’s been great. I’ve really loved almost all of it. We’ve also bed shared since birth, which both me and my husband have loved.
Just before Christmas DD was going down in her cot for 4-5 hours then coming into bed with us for the last few hours of the night, this was perfect.
She eats well, and when I’m at work ( 2 12 hour shifts a week as a midwife) she drinks cows milk in a cup. She also happily drinks cups of water too.
A week before Xmas she had a cold (coincidental or not I’m not sure) but since that point she will only go down in her cot for an hour at the most. I can feed her and put her back down and she will last another hour and so on and so on. But when I bring her into bed with us she will also only last 40mins-1 hr before stirring to feed again. She’s fidgeting an awful lot so it’s not the sort of feed you can sleep through.
I understand that night wakings are biologically normal and I’m happy to feed her in the night but I can cope with every 40mins. It’s not fair on my older boys who are getting the crappy tired version of their mum and I can’t exactly call in sick to work JUST because I’m knackered.
In an effort to help this I’ve day weaned her and this has been easy enough, but to be honest I didn’t need to do that I just hoped it would have some knock-on effect at night.... I was wrong.
For info, she wakes for the day between 0730-0800, she has a 1.5-2hr nap usually around 12ish and goes to bed at 8pm.
We have had the same bedtime routine since birth, bath, books, nurse to sleep.
I literally can’t carry on but am torn between loving feeding her and feeling like my only option is to wean.
Any thoughts would be amazing!