24 week old waking more and more, jut started on solids

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My 24 week old ds has started waking more and more in the past 2 weeks. Has been put to bed at 7 since one month old, often shh'd to sleep but not fed to sleep. Since 3 months has woken 2-3 times and for a while (4/5 months) could be settled back to sleep without milk if woke before 12am or so. Couple of weeks ago stopped being settleable without being fed (he is bf) and the wake ups got earlier and earlier, 9.15pm being the earliest (woke 7.45 the following night and dh managed to settle him back but it took 30 mins). Hasn't been settled without milk since. When he wakes early in the evening he then wakes between 1.5 and 3 hours later all night. Fed 5 times last night. Also last night wouldn't settle after feed so I left him crying for a while.
Started giving solids on Tuesday, when he was 24 weeks, thinking he must be hungry and he had 2 ice cubes of sweet potato and 2 of apple last night. He was also weighed yesterday and had dropped a few centiles (from under 9th to under 2nd, but born on 9th at 37 weeks), so feeding him did seem right thing. Had 2.5 hour sleeps on tue and wed am but is now waking after 30 mins (as I write). I felt we'd tried to do everyting right yet it's still all going wrong. Please help

My 24 week old ds has started waking more and more in the past 2 weeks. Has been put to bed at 7 since one month old, often shh'd to sleep but not fed to sleep. Since 3 months has woken 2-3 times and for a while (4/5 months) could be settled back to sleep without milk if woke before 12am or so. Couple of weeks ago stopped being settleable without being fed (he is bf) and the wake ups got earlier and earlier, 9.15pm being the earliest (woke 7.45 the following night and dh managed to settle him back but it took 30 mins). Hasn't been settled without milk since. When he wakes early in the evening he then wakes between 1.5 and 3 hours later all night. Fed 5 times last night. Also last night wouldn't settle after feed so I left him crying for a while.
Started giving solids on Tuesday, when he was 24 weeks, thinking he must be hungry and he had 2 ice cubes of sweet potato and 2 of apple last night. He was also weighed yesterday and had dropped a few centiles (from under 9th to under 2nd, but born on 9th at 37 weeks), so feeding him did seem right thing. Had 2.5 hour sleeps on tue and wed am but is now waking after 30 mins (as I write). I felt we'd tried to do everyting right yet it's still all going wrong. Please help

My DD is 7 mo and has been waking regularly at night for the past 3 months She won't go to sleep until 10pm to start with, then wakes anything from twice to 2-hourly. I think it's a developmental thing but it's a PITA.

No advice but sympathy.

Also no advice but lots of sympathy. DS2 is four and a half months and has been a nightmare for the past few weeks. He will go to sleep at seven and sleep through until we dream feed him at 10.30. Then he wakes every hour and a half all the way through the night. I was trying to get him to exclusively bottle feed to give myself a bit of a break but now he's started rejecting the bottle even though he's taken it fine since week 3. Only the breast is good enough.

I've started him on baby rice and he's wolfing it down but it hasn't helped the sleeping one bit.

I feel like a zombie. I haven't had more than 4 hours sleep for weeks.

With DS1 it was all about quality of daytime sleep. The more he slept in the day the better he would sleep at night. Doesn't seem to be working with DS2 though

The food won't make an awful lot of difference tbh as it has far fewer calories than milk. So if he's going through a growth or developmental spurt then what he needs is more milk and him waking several times a night and demanding to feed is him telling you this. My dd has been through some enormous growth spurts since 19 weeks (currently 26 weeks) and is changing and developing on a daily basis. She has needed more milk feeds at night to compensate. She is also teething so feeds for comfort and to ease the pain.

I got fooled by the immediate effect of the first lot of food on his sleep, but I think that's common enough. Short bursts of sleep at night usual result in short sleeps in the day (reflecting your daytime/nighttime thing. When he woke after 30 mins this am I went up to him after 5 mins, left him screaming for 10, went up again, left him again and 2 mins later he was back asleep, that was 40 mins ago. Feel mean but shh'ing and picking up weren't working anymore.

Have you tried not dream feeding your ds2 as my ds would often go until 12 or 1am if i didn't wake him but if i fed him at 10.30 would wake at 1 anyway (and then another once or twice) (I woke him rather than dream feeding though). I dream fed my dd but she never slept more than a few hours in a row after that.

my dd was waking up every night for 5 weeks at 5 months, (she started to sleep thru at 8 weeks)..she was on solids at 4 months due to being a hungry baby. I had a break thru when i offered her 3rd meal as she was only having 2 and she started to sleep thru again.

Not dreamfeeding is an interesting idea since he's often sound asleep at that time. I was working on the basis that the more milk I could get into him the better but will try dropping the dream feed tonight.

Also hadn't considered the fact that the food has fewer calories than the milk.

Hope you have some luck rooibosh - sorry for hijacking your thread!

Good luck then ellehcim, let me know how it goes. .

I am feeding him every 2-3 hours in the day time, depending when he wakes, he went for 4 hours on tue and wed am between feeds as he had a mammoth sleep.
Did seem much happier once on solids

what time when he have this mammoth sleep?

from 8.45am until 11.15am both days, having had bf at 7am and a tiny bit of food at 8am