Hi All!
First time posting but I really hope some of you could help me and provide some pearls of wisdom!
My youngest is 7months old, he’s been on solids for a month now and on formula for the last 6 weeks after being ebf from birth.
He is a chunky boy and is currently waking 3 times a night minimum and mostly for feeds. I’m due back to work in a month and can’t do three night wakes up anymore.
He was a prolific snacker when he was breast fed and used to have me up 1.5hourly throughout so I guess I should be greatful it’s now less but I’m still super tired as getting up doing bottles and feeding is a task.
can anyone offer some suggestions as to how I move away from the night wake ups? I’m happy to feed once but more than that wake up wise is hard.
His schedule for reference:
6am wake up- bottle
7:30am- breakfast
8:30/9am- bottle then bed for first nap 30-45mins
12:30/1pm- bottle then nap 30-45mins
3:30/4pm- bottle then nap 30mins
6pm- dinner
7pm- bottle (big one) then bed.
He then wakes at 10:30pm for a bottle, 2am for a bottle, then 4am and 6am to get up!
The 4am wake up I don’t feed him, but he comes into our bed as I’m shattered! Which I know isn’t great.
He has a dummy and a comforter, but he screams when he wakes and I also have an older boy (2years) so I get nervous letting him cry it out too much. I’m reluctant to use a sleep consultant as they are a little spenny! But I do need some help.
Any advice at all?! Thank you so much in advance.
xxx