Hello all
My little boy is 14 weeks old. He has always been a good sleeper since birth, waking a couple of times a night for a feed and going straight back off. he is generally a very good boy and chilled out and im very lucky. im happy to get up in the night as I know he is only little and might still need a feed but its all got a bit erratic recently!
I started dreamfeeding about 4 or 5 weeks ago. Prior to this he feeds every 3 hours usually about 7am/10/1/4/7. But this depends on when he wakes up which I will go onto. He is now bottle fed and takes about 6oz during the day and 5oz at his dreamfeed and during night.
I am doing the EASY routine and this is basically as below. This isnt set in stone but basically he will feed, be awake for 45-75 minutes and then will nap for about 1.5-2hrs. he goes down for his naps fine with his dummy. At night he goes down usually fine, often without his dummy depends how he feels! And then after his dreamfeed and nightfeeds he doesnt have his dummy to fall asleep.
E - 7am (ish - can be 6am or 8am)
A
S - 815-945
E- 10am
A
S - 1115-1245
E- 1pm
A
S - 215-345
E- 4pm
A
S - 515-630
E - 7pm
S - 730pm
Dreamfeed 1030pm
Night as per rest of post below!
When I started dreamfeeding he would wake after that at between 3 and 4am and then again between 6 and 7am. I could cope with that and hoped in time he would drop that 3am feed. However we went on holiday about 2 weeks ago and as we tended to be out later his last feed was still about 1030 altho not always technically a dreamfeed. Then 4 out of the 5 nights he slept right through from 1030-6am! So obviously I was over the moon and hoped he would keep it up when we got home but no!
When we first got home he was back to waking about 4am for a feed. He then had a few nights of waking up a few times in the night and I assumed this was a growth spurt as it was about 12 weeks and he did get visibly bigger very quickly. However for the last few days he has continued to wake up after his dreamfeed about 130/2am. I had been feeding him and then he was waking again between 4/430 feeding again and then awake about 7ish. But for the last 2 nights I thought I would check if he was actually hungry so when he woke at 140am I put his dummy in, he fell asleep again till 315am dummy in again then till 445am dummy in again then till 6am. He did almost the same thing last night. And consequently I am knackered from only having 60min naps all night!!
Last 2 nights, first he woke only at 330am fed and woke again at 630 which was fine. But then last night woke again at 140am! Gave his dummy and he fell asleep till 4am when he fed then woke again at 7am.
So why is he waking at 140am! Im sure he isnt hungry. He doesnt cry but whines and its the sort of whining that wont stop until you go in, I have tried leaving him but he doesnt stop usually.
Any ideas what im doing wrong? ps - im a first time mum!
Thanks for any help! :)