Back to snacking during the night.

[SummerSevern]

Can I ask for your thoughts on this please?
My ff dd was waking only 1ce a night for a feed. Then we hit what I thought was the sleep regression and she was waking every 20-40 mins for her dummy. We had a go at getting her to sleep without it and it went really well, it took 2 days for her to get to sleep without it.
This coincided with the 4 month growth spurt, and she started waking 2ce a night for full, 8oz feeds. Fine, not a problem because she obviously needed it.
She's 19 weeks now and out of the growth spurt. But she's still waking to feed 2ce a night. Again, I'd be ok if I thought she needed it but she's snacking. She falls asleep as soon as the bottle hits her lips and only has 3-4oz.
Times between feeds in the night are also getting shorter. Last night she was fussing after 3.5hrs, when she'd hapily go 5hrs during the day if I let her.
I know she's too young to stop night feeds altogether but is there a way I can consolidate her 2-3 snacky feeds into 1 big feed again? Or do I just man up and go with what she wants?

feel your pain
same here...
hope someone comes along with a miracle...

My Bf baby did this at your LO's age. He
was waking at 9.30, 1 ish and 4.30 ish. This
was after having slept 7-3 for a couple of
weeks. What helped was getting my DH to
go and resettle at the 9.30 waking as he
want really hungry- this took about 3 nights
then he stopped this wake up. I think I still
fed him at the other 2 though. Make sure he
is awake enough to take a proper feed?
Good luck it's a killer bring that tired!
Although if you are FF your DP can help
out too.....

She sorry not he. X

Thanks both.
We went out last night and my dsis looked after dd. She went down as usual at 7.45 and started fussing at 11. Dsis stuck her dummy in and she slept until 2.30 ish when she started to get restless. I fed her at 3 and then crossed my fingers that she'd go through to morning.

No dice - she started fussing at 6 and I held out (with dummy) to 7, then fed and she went back down till 8.10.
So all in all not a bad night. Still not enough to combat the fatigue though!
I read an article today that said adults need 5hrs unbroken sleep a night in order to function. Ha! I haven't had a longer stretch than 4 hours in 20wks!

Ooh I think that's really good- 7.45-3 and 3-6?
Well done. It'll be up and down but that's a
really good night I think. Keep going- I used
to go to bed at 7 when I was really beyond
exhaustion- if your LO will resettle with a
dummy then your DH can so that and you
can get some good sleep in x

You're right Shatteredmama that was a good night. But last night wasn't!
I miss sleep!
Have to keep telling myself that this will pass.

DS was doing this. Sorry to say this as you're obviously tired, but it went on for months and it got better only when his first teeth came through. Total transformation overnight (and I felt supremely guilty thinking he'd been in pain all that time).

It'll get better. Promise .