9 wo waking every 2 hours overnight

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Hi folks
Ds is 9 weeks old, ebf. He wakes up every 2 hours during the night like clockwork and the only way to get him back to sleep is by feeding. He sleeps in a next to bed crib.

I’m not expecting anything like sleeping through, but would love to stretch out his sleep to one or maybe 2 stretches of 3-4 hours.
Is there anything I can do? Or do I just have to wait it out zombie style?

Try and feed him more during the day. You probably will just have to wait it out though unfortunately. 

I’m trying to feed as much as possible in the day, but it is tricky finding time while I’m mostly out and about with toddler dd.

Sounds fairly normal to me. Not to say it doesn’t totally suck.

White noise? Dummy? Swaddle? Formula bottle before bed? Sleepyhead?

They might help if you’re willing to try. But they might not. Some babies just don’t do big sleep stretches.

Can you get DD looked after at all some times so you can get some rest in the days?

It is difficult but sounds completely normal and unfortunately you might just have to ride it out. White noise helped my dd settle a bit longer at that age but a year later she is a terrible sleeper in general so I don't really feel like I should give any advice! Just wanted to say it is totally normal.

I would also say it’s very normal at 9 weeks for this to be the case. Was your dd a similar sleeper or very different? My DS is 11months and still wakes every 2-3 hours (more at the moment actually due to teething I think). Someone said to me to just expect the first year to be a bit shit sleep wise which I found helpful as I just lowered my expectations and stopped hoping every night! But every baby is different obviously :-) it’s SO exhausting though isn’t it, and must be tons harder having a toddler to run around after... could your partner give you a nap either before or after they go to work?

Thanks folks. I know really it’s totally normal ( albeit a bit crap !). Dd was just the same, it took her till 12 months to do any decent long sleeps.

I’ve just been torturing myself reading various sleep guides / books / websites that tell me that I must be doing it all wrong. And that of course my 2 month old ebf baby should sleep for 5-6 hours at a stretch

We have a sleepy head for ds, and keep trying with a dummy. But 9 times out of 10 he spits it out. We’ve tried white noise, but it seemed to agitate him more ( although I might have been imagining that as it was doing my head in!

I never cracked swaddling properly, but is he a bit old for that now? He is very twitchy and spends a lot of time with flailing arms so maybe worth trying again?

Try an easy swaddle wrap thing? If he’s not too big.

gro.co.uk/product/groswaddle/

This was a god send for us! Didn’t sleep without it! Used it at the beginning for feeding too as he kept fighting the boob!
It’s so tempting to read those damn websites/books isn’t it?! But I have always come away feeling crap about myself and my baby so try my best to avoid these days. Just people trying to make money out of mother’s insecurities and vulnerability, boo! And usually nothing “expert” about the advice either.

Good luck! You’ve done it before so must be doing something right 😊 and remember that every phase will (eventually) pass x

I agree with swaddling, I had a very twitchy baby and as soon as we started swaddling she slept through (until we stopped swaddling and hit the 4 month sleep regression that is!!)