WHAT TO DO??????

[missclairey]

HI GIRLS
SHAUN HAS HIS 6OZ FEED EVERY 3 HOURS, HE'S 6 WEEKS OLD NOW.

I JUST WONDERING WHEN BABIES NORMALLY START TO SLEEP THROUGH THE NIGHT OR ARE THEY ALL DIFFERENT? W

HEN IS USING CONTROLLED CRYING TO BREAK NIGHT FEEDS OK?

HOW DO YOU STOP THE NIGHT FEEDS?

ANY ADVICE MOST WELCOMED.

CLAIRE XXXXXXXX

I think that 6 weeks is too young for controlled crying. Have you tried giving him a bigger feed just before bedtime? In the hope that this fills him up?

Er, 6 months is about average I think, and 6 weeks is far too young for CC imo.

all babies are different missclairey and 6 weeks is still so very young. I'd suggest like Emily05 said and you try and give a big feed after bathtime and make sure you have a good routine that lets your DS know that this is the start of his nightime.
Personally I always woke mine for a feed (if they hadn't woken already) about 10.30pm before I went to bed in the hope that i would then only get woken up once in the night (about 2/3am) and then gradually they were able to go from that 10.30pm feed right through until morning. And then eventually the 10.30 feed was not needed either.
That's just the way I did it though, I'm not saying that's the right way.

sounds like perfectly normal feeding to me! Your lo only has a tiny tummy and cannot go for too long without food. My dd slept through a straight 10 hours when she was 5 1/2 months and she did it by herself with no prompting. I think you may be jumping the gun a little in expecting your lo to sleep through already.

CC is not recommended before 6 months and 6 weeks is far too young as your lo is still practically a newborn.

I agree with McKenzie that waking him for a feed when you go to bed at night is a good idea - it always resulted in only being woken once in the night.

At six weeks it is totally normal to feed at night. I remember asking Health Visitor 'when will he stop night feeds?' and being laughed at! Some do drop them very early but my son kept on for about 5 / 6 months. So it's hunker down for a while yet probably! As you say claire they ARE all different and one thing I have learned as a mum is you save yourself heartache if you don't even compare - just accept what your baby does.

my ds dropped his night feed at 4 1/2 weeks, he just did it on his own. he is now 14 weeks and sleeps from last bottle 9.30pm to around 8am (apart from the grunts snores and farts). he is like your dd and feeds every 3 hours during the day.

dd just the same 4 years ago.

each child is different, but i have heared they sleep better during night when they are 10lb plus.

good luck.

Missclairey, my DD slept 8-8 when she was 12 weeks old. DS is a whole new kettle of fish and only started sleeping through from 7pm at about 9 months and even then it was only until 5am.

Your baby will sleep through when he's ready and not a moment before

hi i was wondering if anyone is having or had the same problem as me my daughter is 13 months old and she still wake through the night she is in our rm my partner thinks that's best till she sleep throw the night she has got excema and doc she only bath her 2 times a week the midwife said give her water instead of milk but she still wakes up for that she wakes up 3/4 times a night sometimes more someone please help before i go mad this i my first baby

6 weeks is FAR too young for him to be sleeping through. IMO you'll have to go with the flow and definately don't do controlled crying at this age. He will not understand or learn anything from it, he'll just be terrifed at being left to cry

babydl, it it were me, I would not offer anything when your dd wakes in the night. She needs to learn how to get back to sleep on her own. She might not like it to start with but she should soon get the idea that its not worth bothering with if nothing is going to happen.

She could do with being in her own room really if thats possible.

Also, with the bath thing, dont worry too much about it being part of a bedtime routine as my DS only has a bath 3 times or so a week and it doesnt make any difference. It also allows you more freedom in the long run as it doesnt have to happen for her to get sleepy iyswim.

6 weeks way too young. Some babies need 1-2 night feeds until they are 9-10 months old (note I say need - some babies keep feeding at night longer than that though whether they need it for nutritional reasons is debatable). Even really strict 'let them cry it out' people don't usually recommend this until around 6 months old.

Also what do you mean by 'sleeping through the nig. If a 6 week old baby is sleeping 5-6 hours in a row at night (say midnight - 5am) this is really good going. Most of this age will wake at least once between those hours if not more. This is on top of all the day feeds.

used to wake dd at 1030pm for a feed and she was going through to about 6 am from about 8 weeks but im a fan of gina ford and followed her and i know not many people are a fan but it worked for me and i did cc from really early on to get her to go to sleep on her own and it worked it only took a couple of days and if she woke in the night she just went straight back of to sleep again without me having to go to her