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Milk smell?

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Haahoooo · 20/07/2014 14:30

It seems that DS (3 months) sleeps much better when I am not in the room! When it's just DH and DS and I am in the spare room he will almost always sleep through the night, whereas when it's DS and I we have several wakings. I remember something similar with DD when she was little:

Is it:

  • Me being more sensitive? I don't think so as especially with DS I don't rush to pick him up at every little sound;
  • The smell of breast milk in the room causing more wakings?
  • Pure chance...

I do wonder! Does anyone else have this?

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mrsmugoo · 20/07/2014 22:19

I had the exact same scenario - I slept in the spare room and DS did something like a 10 hour stretch having previously been awake every 2 hours.

Turns out my DH stayed up nearly all night working and manning the monitor and told me DS woke up 5 or 6 times but he just ignored it because he wasn't crying and he fell back asleep by himself each time!

I'd been getting up multiple times in the night for nothing!

I now sleep with ear plugs - I can hear cries or whinges for food but not shuffling around.

Haahoooo · 21/07/2014 20:21

Glad it's bit just me mrs Smile

I do think it's very odd because when it's my "shift" I don't think I pick him up too quickly. I really wonder if he knows there's milk in the room... In any case it's an argument for DH doing night shifts Grin

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Haahoooo · 21/07/2014 20:21

*not

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