In a nutshell;
DD has been EBF from 1 week old
At 7 weeks stopped putting on weight. Would not go longer than 40 mins without a feed. Average feed would last 80 mins.
At 9 weeks diagnosed a severe tongue tie (could not suckle AT ALL,)
TT cut at 11 weeks
Feeding finally improved at 14 weeks.
Now at 28 weeks she is being weaned slowly.
But she still wont nap properly during day and sleep has gone to shit at night. She wakes about 5 times a night. Still EBF except for a bottle of formula before bedtime.
Since birth she naps like 40 mins and putting her down is a no no as she ALWAYS wakes up.
Where do i start? What do i implement and what do i improve first? Her naps or her nighttime sleep?
She will not sleep unless she has a tit in her mouth. I guess this is because of all her feeding issues so she was always hungry and then always falling asleep whilst trying to feed.
At night she will do her longest stretch from 7pm till maybe 10pm or 11 if im lucky then its hourly/2 hourly wakings with a demand for breast (well, that means she wont stop crying and no amount of cuddles or shushing will help so i have to whip out a bap and let her suckle to sleep in bed next to me).
She is now being weaned and is also teething on and off.
I was fully prepared to Gina Ford the shit out this baby but i just cant for the life of me even think of letting her cry it out when she had such a shit start in the first 3 months of her life where she essentially starved.
What do i do? How do i get her to slowly stop needing me to feed her to sleep?
Do i attack the night sleep first or her daytime sleep?