4mth old - should I bf in the night when he wakes up three times instead of one?

[theprecious]

second thread of the day - sorry folks!

DS used to wake once in the night (lovely) but since the clocks changed it's now twice or three times. I can get him back to sleep but then he'll wake up again 15mins later.

Should I just feed him in the night each times he wakes? Could it be a growth spurt? Or should I persevere with trying to but him up to sleep, as will just encourage him to wake up?

I don't know.....booooo hoooooooo!

I know exactly how you feel TP. My 4 month old DD is doing exactly the same thing ever since the clocks changed too - Yawn!! She used to wake once at about 4/5 then up at 7. That's gone out the window and now as well as 2 extra feeds she is also cooing and ready get up at about 5.30! I am currently still feeding her at the extra wakeups as she genuinely seems prettty hungry. I too am wondering if its just the 4 month growth spurt and completely unrelated to clocks. Fireworks yest didn't help much either though! Sorry -I have not said anything helpful at all!

ahhh well that makes me feel better, as ds is doing exactly the same! I am trying a later bedtime of 8pm after a busy day to see if that helps. I will report back tomorrow.

Hello, my ds started waking more at night at 4months, I thought he was hungrier cos of growth spurt so just kept feeding. He is now 6 months and constantly wakes every 2 hours to bed fed, which he didn't even do as a newborn ! I must admit I do give in and feed him as it is the quickest way to get us both back to sleep....but do worry I have built a rod for my own back on this one ! My older children were not still bf at this age, and both slept through from 4 months....hmmm

imo at this age it doesn't matter, if he'll go back without a feed, fine, if it's easier to feed to sleep then just do it.

DS started doing this at 4 months old - deffo growth spurt. Later bedtime has just meant he is grumpier, but still wakes every 2/3 hrs (5 mths old now)

How was your night TP? I was debating trying to get DD to stay up a bit later but that last hour (6 -7) is hard enough work as it is! So same again for us. These posts have been helpful though. Think I will just carry on feeding as I am too lazy to try getting her back to sleep any other way. (Although we have found that white noise - an untuned radio station - works a treat to get her back to sleep when I know it's definitely not a feed kind of cry she is making - just really loud grumbling...)

Sounds like a growth spurt to me: it's common for babies' sleep to go to pot at this age. I'd keep feeding and hope it settles down.

well.... last night we bathed at 7, started last feeding at 7.30 and bed at 8pm. I agree that last hour is tough! If I am aiming for 8pm bed then I try to get ds to nap on the boob at 5pm ish.

Anyway last night 8pm bed, he was quite noisy and had to be rocked a couple of times before 10 so I was quite worried. He woke at 1.45am, I fed him both boobs (usually only do one). Then he work again at 4am but as he'd had both boobs I rocked him back to sleep (have amby hammock so it's easy to rock him without getting him up). He went back to sleep till 6.45. So fed him then, then as dp was getting up for work. WE had about an hour's uptime then another nap.

So I think late bedtime does help, and will do the both boob trick. That way I know he can't be hungry if he wakes up an couple of hours later. I am quite tired now, but will try the same again tonight and should get enough sleep.

He's still swaddled as well (have another thread about that).

what an essay! Thanks for listening

hurrah, we are almost back to where we were before the clocks changed. 2.45am wake up and feed then 5.00, no feed and back to sleep till 6.45.

Fingers crossed and I appreciate it more now I know how easily it can change.