GF Mums do GF babies start sleeping themselves?

[melaniespeaking]

I am not het up, just intrigued. DD is 13 weeks and is a very happy baby on a slightly adapted GF routine. She normally feeds once in the night between 4 to 5.30 for about 10 minutes maximum. There doesn't seem to be a reason why some nights it is 4 or others 5.30. She isn't feeding that well at 7am, so am wondering if this is habit? She weighs over 131bs, however foesn't feed well before bed as is too tired, and this is the only sleep that she normally goes down to sleep already asleep if you see what I mean, the others she can put herself to sleep.

So my question is how many GF babies just sleep through themselves, how many of you gave boiled water and how many did cc or similar.?

As I say I am not frantic just interested to know.

Thanks a million!

I was actually surprised when I read your initial post becasue I didn't up to now know any GF babies who didn't sleep through (11PM to 7AM) who were older than 9 weeks old (though I think Mana and Pena may have had older babies).
My 2 were younger 9 and 6 weeks - did try water with the 9 weeks old (the 6 weeks old didn't need that). I can't remember if it made any difference but if you say she isn't eating well at 7AM... I'd give that a go !

Good luck.

My GF baby slept through at 8 weeks by herself. We then went to stay with my Mum for 2 weeks and she woke up at 5.30 for a feed every day (no blackout curtains!) When we got home it took a week for her to move the 5.30 feed to 7am - but she did this by herself. If she is not feeding well at 6.15 feed have you tried going back to splitting this? If you give her some before the bath then she might wake up enough to get more at 6.15, and then be able to last longer in the night (if it is hunger and not habit)

I started my baby on the routine when she was 7 weeks old and she slept though at about 14 weeks. However she did start going later and later until at around 10 weeks she would sleep til around 4-5am. I followed the advice and gave her half her feed and then gave her the rest at 7.30am.

Are you still waking her for the 10.30pm feed. I only dropped this feed once she was sleeping though til 7am.

Julie

My dd was on GF routines from about 3 or 4 weeks - she slept through 11ish to 7ish from about 13 weeks. Then did 7ish to 7ish at 19 weeks. Unless you are desparate, I'd give her a bit longer before you try the water and stuff. You could try being a bit slow to get to her when she wakes up. I used to go to the loo on my way to feed her and sometimes found that by the time I'd made it to her room she'd dropped off again! As JulieF said, we also did the half feed thing if she woke up late in morning. I followed GF's instructions for nighttime almost exactly and it worked like a dream. It was great that my dd slept through at 13 weeks, cos I went back to work at 14 weeks and I needed my full night's sleep.

Melaniespeaking - Your DD sounds exactly like my DD when she was around 13-14 weeks. She would wake up around 5.00-5.30ish and have quite a small feed, then at around 7 she wouldn't be hungry enough. We tried the water at the night time waking but she just wouldn't take it so in the end we decided to try CC. We could see she wasn't really hungry when she woke up at 5am.

Anyway we did the CC for one night and she cried for about 40 minutes, then settled back to sleep and we had to wake her at 7. That was all it took - after that she never again woke at 5. Now she sleep until 7. She sometimes wakes around 6.30 but she lies happily and quietly in her cot until I pick her up for a feed. I'm glad we did the CC but you have to be really certain that she is waking up only from habit, not hunger or whatever. Hope you don't have to resort to that, coz it's no fun at the time.