What's your MO during the night if the baby wakes up?

crazycrush · 2013-03-11T11:08:54+00:00

My strategy for my 6 month old: - give a good porridge dinner - dress him warmer in bed when it is so cold - introduce a comforter - make sure I have something warm to slip into when I am woken at night, including something for the feet - drink big bottle of extra hungry formula at first waking at midnight - time for DH to do a feed. (Worried though he will be too exciting for baby... Should I give it a go?) - breastfeed in kids room if baby wakes during night, put back in cot if he falls asleep on boob or let self soothe for 5 minutes after feed if he hasn't fallen asleep - if he wont sleep shush-pat for 10 minutes (or should that bit be longer?) - if he still won't sleep in the cot or keeps waking up (because he is not feeling well) take him to sofa so we can both sleep... Transfer to cot if I wake up and he still sleeps (and this sofa excursion is only meant for days when he is teething or sick, so he has comfort) - if I notice he starts to expect sleeping with me on the sofa I will find a new way but for now I am hoping he will grow out of it... Does this sound reasonable? What do you do?

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crazycrush · 11/03/2013 11:08

My strategy for my 6 month old:

give a good porridge dinner
dress him warmer in bed when it is so cold
introduce a comforter
make sure I have something warm to slip into when I am woken at night, including something for the feet
drink big bottle of extra hungry formula at first waking at midnight - time for DH to do a feed. (Worried though he will be too exciting for baby... Should I give it a go?)
breastfeed in kids room if baby wakes during night, put back in cot if he falls asleep on boob or let self soothe for 5 minutes after feed if he hasn't fallen asleep
if he wont sleep shush-pat for 10 minutes (or should that bit be longer?)
if he still won't sleep in the cot or keeps waking up (because he is not feeling well) take him to sofa so we can both sleep... Transfer to cot if I wake up and he still sleeps (and this sofa excursion is only meant for days when he is teething or sick, so he has comfort)
if I notice he starts to expect sleeping with me on the sofa I will find a new way but for now I am hoping he will grow out of it...

Does this sound reasonable?

What do you do?

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Andcake · 16/03/2013 14:06

Hi...glad to hear its working and for us until last night my version of shh pat seems to be working with great success. After having a few days of hourly waking early this week once we introduced it we went 8-5 two nights in a row witha feed at 5 then in with us when he didn't resettle but I'm ok with that. Last night back to two night feeds and a few waking a but it was very windy here and his cot is a bit close to an air vent and its knocking woke him up a few times. The longer sleeps did mean naps became more difficult ( he just didn't yawn or get tired the first day) so I'm making a determined effort to get him to have naps today even if its on me. I do think one of the tricks for naps is not to let them 'get out of their nap' and re settle if they wake after a short time so it sounds like your technique will work. Ds is currently napping near me on the sofa but it took 2 hours to get him to sleep with a mixture of feeding, teething pain medicine and then a poo! One attempt into the cot failed so sofa on daddy's coat was better than anything else but at least I know me moving wont disturb him :-)

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