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Bedtime routine? Sleeping through yet?
Is anyones baby sleeping for a decent stretch at night yet?
Millie goes around 4hours at a time at night, 2 to 3 hours during the day between feeds. She'll be 8 wks old on Tues and the lack of sleep is really starting to get to me as by the time I've fed her, winded her and settled her back down then got into bed myself and listened to her making grunting noises etc for about 20 mins until she falls into a deep sleep its only about 2 hours until she wakes up again. I'd love to just try and get her to go 5 or 6 hours at night but dont really have any idea how to try I know she can do 5 hours as she does it very occasionally.
Does anyone have a particular routine they follow in the evening to help their LO sleep better/longer at night? Millie cant settle herself to sleep either so I have to hold her on my chest until I can tell she's properly asleep as if I try and put her down before then she always wakes up as soon as I put her down!
At the moment we bath her 30 mmins before shes due her evening feed between 7pm & 9pm depending on when she last fed then she usually cries whlst I dry and dress her for bed (shes not very relaxed!) then I feed her and she falls asleep on me after I've winded her and usually sleeps until 11,12 or 1pm when my hubby gets up and gives her a bottle as shes usually BF this gives me a little break but I cant sleep through it as shes so noisy and my hubby is so sleepy I worry he'll fall asleep whilst holding her so I have to watch him! Were thinking of changing the bottle feed to the evening one after her bath as she doesnt sleep any longer having a bottle than on the breast.
Whats everyone else doing?
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Millie goes around 4hours at a time at night, 2 to 3 hours during the day between feeds. She'll be 8 wks old on Tues and the lack of sleep is really starting to get to me as by the time I've fed her, winded her and settled her back down then got into bed myself and listened to her making grunting noises etc for about 20 mins until she falls into a deep sleep its only about 2 hours until she wakes up again. I'd love to just try and get her to go 5 or 6 hours at night but dont really have any idea how to try I know she can do 5 hours as she does it very occasionally.
Does anyone have a particular routine they follow in the evening to help their LO sleep better/longer at night? Millie cant settle herself to sleep either so I have to hold her on my chest until I can tell she's properly asleep as if I try and put her down before then she always wakes up as soon as I put her down!
At the moment we bath her 30 mmins before shes due her evening feed between 7pm & 9pm depending on when she last fed then she usually cries whlst I dry and dress her for bed (shes not very relaxed!) then I feed her and she falls asleep on me after I've winded her and usually sleeps until 11,12 or 1pm when my hubby gets up and gives her a bottle as shes usually BF this gives me a little break but I cant sleep through it as shes so noisy and my hubby is so sleepy I worry he'll fall asleep whilst holding her so I have to watch him! Were thinking of changing the bottle feed to the evening one after her bath as she doesnt sleep any longer having a bottle than on the breast.
Whats everyone else doing?
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As for sleep, I've been putting him to bed when he seems sleepy or falls asleep, then he usually sleeps for about 4 / 5 hours. I give him a bottle in the nights as we're still getting used to breastfeeding and I can't cope with fighting with him during the night when I'm half asleep! I usually give hima bath / wash in the mornings as he doesn't like it and gets so worked up, not a good combination with calming him down for bed!
I also usually have to let him fall asleep on me before putting him down, although tonight I bathed him (he was sick after his last feed!) then had a cuddle, then put him in his basket and just pottered around the bedroom, pretty much ignoring him and he fell asleep after about 20 minutes himself. Will be trying that again tomorrow! He went down about 10 and I'm hoping he'll sleep til at least 2!
He'll be 6 weeks on Monday!
As for sleep, I've been putting him to bed when he seems sleepy or falls asleep, then he usually sleeps for about 4 / 5 hours. I give him a bottle in the nights as we're still getting used to breastfeeding and I can't cope with fighting with him during the night when I'm half asleep! I usually give hima bath / wash in the mornings as he doesn't like it and gets so worked up, not a good combination with calming him down for bed!
I also usually have to let him fall asleep on me before putting him down, although tonight I bathed him (he was sick after his last feed!) then had a cuddle, then put him in his basket and just pottered around the bedroom, pretty much ignoring him and he fell asleep after about 20 minutes himself. Will be trying that again tomorrow! He went down about 10 and I'm hoping he'll sleep til at least 2!
He'll be 6 weeks on Monday!
You could try the dreamfeed as marnie suggested, it seems to work for some. Also make sure you give her a little bit of time before you go to her during the night as she may settle back to sleep.
Good luck.x
For the past few weeks we have been doing this at about 9, meaning he is asleep by 10 or a little after, at which point we switch out the light (he is in with us). However, as he always wants to eat at 7:30, last night I moved bedtime up to then, starting our routine at about quarter to 7. We actually both got to eat our dinner at the same time for the first time since he was born! I then woke him at 10, changed his nappy, fed him and put him back down and he fussed for a bit before going back off to sleep.
The only disadvantage of this change so far is that where he had been going from 10 to 2 or 3, he woke at 1 for his night feed last night and then again at 5:30. However, as he was waking anywhere from 4:30 to 7:30 before, this wasn't so different, so we are going to stick with the new timings for the moment. He was really loud going back to sleep, though, so I completely sympathise with you on that front.
Sorry, no practical suggestions except maybe to introduce a story after the final feed. It may seem rather early to be reading to them, but it does give Peter a few moments of cuddling up to me to get himself in the mood for sleep, if he doesn't get there fully by the time the story is done.
Good luck! I hope you get a decent night's sleep soon.
I'm mix feeding at the moment usually 2 or 3 bottles a day. Sometimes 1 in the morning if hubby gets up with her, 1 at lunch time/early afternoon depending if im out then hubby gives her the last one in an evening. I breast feed her the other times and if she wakes in the night!
I think im going to try her in her nursery tonight!
We bathed her and got her ready for bed between 7 & 7.30 then I breastfed her at 7.30pm for 30mins but it took her 1hr to bring her wind up (got her on infacol and colief but she still suffers with bad wind and doesnt bring it up easily!) and get her down so was only in bed asleep for 9pm! We tried a dream feed last night at 11.30pm but she still woke at 2am then 5am then wouldnt settle back to sleep and was wide awake grunting for about 1hr until hubby picked her up and tried to get her to sleep on him but she was having none of it so he got up with her and gave her a bottle about 8am so i got a bit of a lie in until 11am!
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Sorry tive got no suggestions but i could have written your post! Our 'routine' is like this:
6.30pm-bath, pj's on, story, feed
7pm-9pm-fussin time, feed
feeds at around 12,2,4,6, 8
God, it's relentless! He's definatley having a growth spurt this week, 6 weeks, so im REALLY hoping he starts to go longer-he once went 5 hours so he can do it.
He's also very noisy, i wonder if im feeding him when he's not really hungry-it's hard to tell when he's asleep or not. Can you post back and let us know if moving your lo to her room helped at all-this is something ive been thinking about for a couple of weeks now (Max is 6 weeks 2day)xx
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