Night time feeds - Am exhausted now - ideas?
Hi Ladies,
Just picking your brains really - As you know im expecting number 2 and am 24 weeks tomoz so its getting closer - Yay
However I am beyond shattered partly to do with being Pg but also because Z is still asking for bedtime bottles. Im usually more than ready for bed at 9pm but Z then asks for a bottle at 10.30 and then again at 2.30 and then again at 5.30 - Im losing the will to live. I don't know how to get him to stop this. I watched the sleep programme the other night and both experts seemed to at some point remove all night feeds from the baby but I've tried this and Z screams until he vomits which is even worse. He refuses to have bottles throughout the day instead wanting his sippy cup with water which is fine I don't mind that at all but he does still want and need his milk but only wants it at night. Am i being too soft? should I go cold turkey on him and refuse him his night feeds? So confused. He is eating tonnes during the day now so should in theory be sleeping through the night????
Ideas?
xx
Just picking your brains really - As you know im expecting number 2 and am 24 weeks tomoz so its getting closer - Yay
However I am beyond shattered partly to do with being Pg but also because Z is still asking for bedtime bottles. Im usually more than ready for bed at 9pm but Z then asks for a bottle at 10.30 and then again at 2.30 and then again at 5.30 - Im losing the will to live. I don't know how to get him to stop this. I watched the sleep programme the other night and both experts seemed to at some point remove all night feeds from the baby but I've tried this and Z screams until he vomits which is even worse. He refuses to have bottles throughout the day instead wanting his sippy cup with water which is fine I don't mind that at all but he does still want and need his milk but only wants it at night. Am i being too soft? should I go cold turkey on him and refuse him his night feeds? So confused. He is eating tonnes during the day now so should in theory be sleeping through the night????
Ideas?
xx
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Watched the sleep programme too and know we couldn't do tough love with Freddie - because of the vomit and because I'm far too soft ...
Sending sleepy hugs xx
Scarlett only stopped requesting a night feed when she went into her own room and started crawling. It's like she's so tired from the day that she slept through and although she used to drink terribly during the day she now drinks properly and Ive changed nothing. I was given advice prior to this as it was 7 months and HV seemed shocked she wasnt sleeping through but I just knew it would happen naturally, which it did at 8 months. Dont know if Z is crawling yet but it changed everything for us, literally within a few days.
Inka xxx
HJS
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