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Question about night feeds
Hi everyone, I'm looking for advice...
Amber is 8wks old and exclusively bf.
Up until she was 7 weeks she mainly slept in bed with me and I fed her in bed and managed to get a reasonable amount of sleep. However, I decided that she needs to be in her moses basket as she is getting wrigglier and I don't want her falling out of the bed or slipping under the duvet.
So, I have been giving her a big feed in the evening and then putting her to bed in her basket and lying in the big bed next to her, ensuring she gets to sleep. She then goes about 3.5 hours before waking for a feed. I get up then and sit in the feeding chair and give her a feed for about 20mins, then put her back in her basket and sshh her to sleep. However, at this point - it seems to go a bit wrong as she will then wake up between 1 and 2 hours later, so I have to repeat everything again and again and again - I am soooo tired now! I can only think she's not getting enough milk at the late feeds which is why she wakes so frequently, but I do all I can to keep her on as long as possible, only ever offer her 1 side per feed.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I am considering resorting to bed sharing again, just to get some sleep, but really don't want to![:\](https://forum.madeformums.com/resources/emoji/confused.png ":\")
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Amber is 8wks old and exclusively bf.
Up until she was 7 weeks she mainly slept in bed with me and I fed her in bed and managed to get a reasonable amount of sleep. However, I decided that she needs to be in her moses basket as she is getting wrigglier and I don't want her falling out of the bed or slipping under the duvet.
So, I have been giving her a big feed in the evening and then putting her to bed in her basket and lying in the big bed next to her, ensuring she gets to sleep. She then goes about 3.5 hours before waking for a feed. I get up then and sit in the feeding chair and give her a feed for about 20mins, then put her back in her basket and sshh her to sleep. However, at this point - it seems to go a bit wrong as she will then wake up between 1 and 2 hours later, so I have to repeat everything again and again and again - I am soooo tired now! I can only think she's not getting enough milk at the late feeds which is why she wakes so frequently, but I do all I can to keep her on as long as possible, only ever offer her 1 side per feed.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I am considering resorting to bed sharing again, just to get some sleep, but really don't want to
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It does get better!!
With regard to no longer co-sleeping, have you thought about getting a bedguard (the type you get for kids which stop them from falling out of bed) so that you can still cosleep. There are plenty of options out there to ensure safe cosleeping which also means a better nights sleep for you.
Personally - I have a double mattress on the floor in babys room so when she wakes I just go in there and lie in bed with her, but there is no fear of her hurting herself as the mattress is floor level. That was MY solution, but there are lots more out there!
You could try changing his nappy to wake him up between sides or what i tried to do was give him an expressed feed from a bottle so he could get a full feed more quickly.
I've taken to offering her both boobs in the night in the hope that she'll suck instinctively and in that way I'll "trick" her into having more milk, but she just turns her head away.
Like you, I'm trying to accept that we just have to wait for her to get a bit older :roll: