Will ds learn to sleep longer by himself? 45min cycles at 16wks

[Jellybabie3]

I appreciate this is the regression. Its been getting worse since Christmas day. He now wakes every 45 min to an hour, i lift him out of his side cot. He has a 5min nibble on my boob, back to bed and repeat.

Will he learn to sleep longer himself or do i need to something??? Baffled

Keep trying with the bottle and dummy. DS went through a phase of refusing the bottle but it is handy that he takes one.

Can you get an earlier doctor’s appointment? We didn’t have any luck with ranitidine and omeprazole has been much better. But you might be ok with the higher dose.

Think i will have to ring em tomorrow. Doc said i had limited options because i am ebf and ds wont take a bottle.

Aargh.

Eh? Limited options for what? Medication?
It’s true that Gaviscon is a nightmare to give ebf babies but it doesn’t always help anyway.
If the higher dose of ranitidine doesn’t work, there is omeprazole but apparently some GPs don’t like prescribing it. Either way you might want to consider pushing for a paediatrician referral.

OK thanks

Saw this and thought of you OP:

“Remember every time a baby 'expert' says the key to sleep is a Consistent Bedtime Routine a kitten DIES.”

(It’s from the blog “Sleep Is For The Weak”, I follow the FB page and there’s a book too.)

There is a REALLY REALLY EASY solution to this.

He is just completing one sleep cycle and not going in to another. During his day naps you need to gently disturb him 25 mins in, not enough to wake him though. He will go in to another cycle.

Every time dds sleep has been disturbed either through holidays, illness, ect... we always fall back to this.

One of mine used to wake at 2.30am like clock work. Took three days of setting my alarm at 2.10am to disturb her gently to get past it. It works 👌

Strongvegetables- yes, that method is brilliant, it’s called “wake to sleep” and is for habitual wakings. Did it when my LO went through a phase of waking at 10pm and 2am.

Like you say, might help OP get longer naps but wouldn’t work at bedtime til baby can self settle as they go through several sleep cycles at night and you can’t do WTS for each one or you’d be up and down like a yo-yo!

Thanks for the advice 😊

I might be being dim here but none of my nct friends babies are going through this and none of their babies can settle themselves to sleep. They range from 4 months to 5.5months. Does this mean they will hit this issue later on??

I just seems like I HAVE to do something to teach him so I dont get why everyone doesnt go through it??

Because all babies are different, some are naturally good sleepers and some (especially those with reflux) are naturally terrible.

In other words, some parents are lucky bastards and others are cursed!

Oh yay.

So sleep trainings a no go with reflux anyway so I'm in it for the long haul??

No that’s not what I said. It’s just harder when they have reflux. We made sure the reflux was under control before starting proper sleep training. And as I said in my previous posts, there are still things you can do to encourage good sleep habits that are not full on sleep training.

If his reflux flares up I will relax the “rules” a bit to give him the comfort he needs, and we do still have bad nights, but we have still managed to improve his sleep (touch wood!!)

Ok I'm seeing HV today for advice

@NameChange30

I just saw your earlier post

HV recommends shh pat....