Help with bedtime routine please! UPDATE :-(
Hi, well DS is 11w+4d and has always been an 'awake' baby. He doesn't sleep loads during the day but will tend to have one long nap- maybe 2hrs at lunchtime. He is a really good baby- doesn't seem grumpy or anything. Anyway we had got into a kind of routine of bathing him at 9.30pm then bottle and bed by 10pm. He sleeps till 3am then till 7am. We decided it would be nice for OH and I to have some time in the evenings together so last night we bathed him at 7.45 then bottle and he was sleeping till 1am, then 4am then 6.30am!!
What do you think I should do? I would rather be getting up at 3 then 6.30 than 1 and 4! Should I maybe wake him about 10.30pm for a feed?
I'm clueless!!!!
xxx
Well. DS had bottle and was sleeping in bed again by 8.30. Gave him dreamfeed at 11pm where he took 4oz. Thought he would sleep till maybe 4am but he was up at 2.30am and took 4.5oz then 5.30am for 2oz and now I'm up at 7am. What should I do. Just keep persevering?
Thanks
[Modified by: daffodil1000 on 22 September 2010 07:20:35 ]
What do you think I should do? I would rather be getting up at 3 then 6.30 than 1 and 4! Should I maybe wake him about 10.30pm for a feed?
I'm clueless!!!!
xxx
Well. DS had bottle and was sleeping in bed again by 8.30. Gave him dreamfeed at 11pm where he took 4oz. Thought he would sleep till maybe 4am but he was up at 2.30am and took 4.5oz then 5.30am for 2oz and now I'm up at 7am. What should I do. Just keep persevering?
Thanks
[Modified by: daffodil1000 on 22 September 2010 07:20:35 ]
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Hth xxx
So what we used to do is bath then bottle at 6PM, then in bed by 7PM. And then we'd wake her up FULLY at 10PM to give her a feed, then straight back to bed. And then she would wake up at around 2/2:30AM for another feed, then awake again at about 6/7AM.
She quickly dropped the 2AM feed, so we kept upping her daytime feeds to make sure she was soon getting enough, and then one night I fell asleep before 10PM so we missed out that feed and she managed to go the whole night without a feed.
So try waking him up fully at 10PM so that he can have as much as he needs.
HTH
xxx
it will take time to ajust to the bedtime routine, it will be quite an ajustment going to bed at 7 from 10, we started this at 8 weeks so we were still getting up in the night anyway, but it was nice to have couple time again, when LO started dropping his 10 pm feed and waking at 1 instead we introduced a dream feed which moved his waking to 4 then 5 then 6 over a few weeks, he then stopped taking his dreamfeed so we introduced 3 hourly feeds in the day so his last bottle was 7pm and next was 7am,
it will take time to make a difference x
I know the full nights sleep seems so far away but it will creep up on you and before you know it it will happen. he's young and what he is doing is perfectly normal, I would actually class him as quite a good sleeper lol!!!