Sleep advice please

[Katie59]

Hi all this is my first time posting.

My little girl is 8 months old, from about 3 months old she slept through 9-6 maybe one night feed here and there but say out of 7 days she slept through 5 of them.

For the last month she hasn’t slept through once. Up 2 or 3 times every night for a bottle.
She will have a bottle and then back to sleep most of the time.

We started weening at 6 months and she has 2 meals a day plus 7oz bottles every 4 hours.
I give her porridge at about 7pm then bath bottle and bed about 7.30/8.00 sometimes she isn’t interested in that bottle so I do a dream feed 9/9.30pm before I go to bed. I try and get as much food/milk in her through out the day so she doesn’t need it at night.

I’ve tried upping the night time bottles to 8oz but she will only drink 7oz of them. I’ve tried lowering them to wean her off them in the night but she still wakes up just as often.
I’ve tried to settle her without a bottle but she then starts to get worked up until she has one.

Any advice would be greatly received. Thanks for taking the time to read my post.

xxx

I just typed 'supernanny sleep' in youtube & lots of videos came up.
Hope this helps.
I think supernann is great. :)

Your baby is perfectly normal. If she wakes up hungry give her as much milk as she wants. Sleeps is not linear it gets better and worse for next few years.

All sounds perfectly normal. There are massive sleep regressions at 4, 6 and 9 months. It's pretty irrelevant what you feed them in the day when they are going through one.

Have you tried the No Cry Sleep Solution? It doesn't have to be CIO or nothing

Would she take the bottle every 3 hours instead of 4 in the day?

I know I've said what you feed her is pretty irrelevant, but it does sound as if she does need those calories at night, lots of babies do and there's nothing unusual in that.

There's a good guide on what she should be having in the day here. You'll probably need from about page 39

Also, if you do use Supernanny's methods, just remember that they aren't evidence based and most were devised before she'd ever actually had a baby.

There are some studies on normal infant sleep here

Thank you all for taking the time to reply to me. Nice to hear that everything sounds normal. I think it’s just made me think I was doing something wrong because from an early age she would sleep through and now she isn’t. First time mum and a worry pot xx

Vg Katie.
JJJ - you may be thinking of 3 Day Nanny who struggled with her own advice after having her first baby as she didn't like leaving him/her to cry & got someone else to help/do it!
Supernanny is childless.
I think the methods of both are pretty mainstream & well researched.
There is some disagreement of course, as always.
Neither were around in 'my day' so I can't talk from experience :)

@Katie58, does she feed to sleep?

@Katie59, sorry!

If Supernanniy's methods are well researched, I'd love to see the research

When does she nap during the day? I found that from about 6 months, it was all about getting the day naps right and that sorted out night sleep. Good luck - it’s so hard.

At 8 months, she would nap from 9.30-10 and then for about 2.5 hours from around 12.30.

No she self settles to sleep, I’ve always put her down awake and usually within 5 mins of jabbering to herself she’s asleep.
So normally up at 5ish nap at 8-9 nap at 12-1 nap 4-5
Sometimes if she naps for 2 hours in the morning then she only has one in the afternoon. x

If you have a look at the No Cry Sleep solution I ousted a link to earlier, it has a section in early waking

Thank you, I’ll take a look xx