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HELP: Sudden change in 5 month old

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Sabie · 13/04/2011 21:19

For the past 2 months dd has gone down into her cot awake or asleep after a breast feed at night. She has had a bottle of expressed milk dream feed from dh and always gone straight back down. Now suddenly for the last three night she is not going down straightaway, it takes 2/3 attempts & she's not going straight down after the dream feed. Why sudden change?

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sarahev · 14/04/2011 08:16

Hello,

My DD is 22 weeks now and we had a period of poor sleep after being pretty good up til that point - from about 18 weeks I think.

However, the last 3 nights (for the first time ever) she has slept through with no feeds from 7-7 and is again sleeping very well in the day. So I think it is probably just a developmental thing and she will go back to normal (or even improve) once she gets this out of her system.

Maybe you could try dropping the dream feed - perhaps she no longer needs it and you are disrupting her sleep by offering it? I can't really help with that as we never did this for DD, just put her down around 7 - 7.30 and fed her as and when she woke (usually about 3am).

I guess what I am trying to say, is that nothing we did changed DD's sleep patterns, she just does it herself, so maybe just go with it for a few weeks and then see if things improve without stressing too much over it.......

matana · 14/04/2011 09:20

Mine's the same. DS has always settled well but hit 19 weeks and we've had a period of screaming before every nap (proper screaming and not just grizzling), refusal to settle at bedtime and waking every few hours. He turned 20 weeks on Sunday and things improved as of yesterday/ last night. He's back to settling for naps (don't want to speak too soon!) and last night slept reasonably well. He went down awake, but was asleep within 5 minutes with no crying.

It's a phase and it will pass. Just give your DD the help she needs, and cuddles, to get her through this stage of her development. If she's learned good sleep habits already then she'll get back to that in no time and with very little help from you - just a little reassurance.

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