I'm having some trouble with my ds (15 weeks) sleeping patterns. He had started (about 4 weeks ago) having a last feed (bf) at 7, sleeping til 4, then feed, then waking at 7, which suited me fine. But the last two weeks or so, he's been waking every hour or so after about 10. I get up and put in his dummy, he goes back to sleep, but then wakes again after about an hour. This goes on til about 3-4 when he feeds again. He's then awake for 1 1/2 hours (I have to stay with him to help him to sleep because if I don't he makes a lot of noise and disturbs dh) before sleeping until 7ish.
The problem I have is that after 4pm feed, bath etc, he's knackered and falls asleep around 6 until his next feed at 7. I'm sure this isn't helping his night time sleep but I really don't know how to fix things so that he's tired after his last feed, and not before!
He's also still sleeping in his pram, but is really too big for it now, but I'm dreading putting him into the cot because it's in our room (we don't have any other space!) and I'm worried that when we go to bed that'll wake him.
He manages to go off to sleep by himself after the last feed, sometimes after a bit of crying and/or screaming, and sometimes needs his dummy, but not always. But during the night he's just not so good.
All his naps during the day he has on his side in the cot and with the dummy, and he sleeps really well. He probably has around 4-4 1/2 hours of naps during the day.
All this has coincided with him appearing to be less hungry during the day, and not wanting to feed every 3 hours, as he was before. Since, he's completely lost any of the 'routine' we had going, and I don't think that helps either.
It's all the more frustrating because he had started sleeping really well, and now it's all gone to pot!! Sorry to go on, but I may be returning to work soon, and would really like to get it down to getting up just once in the night for a feed. Any advice would be enormoulsy appreciated!
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evansmummy · 01/04/2005 04:28
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