Hi there

Well as the wekk progresses our news is good. I am however fully aware that once I post that particular bit of news my lady will be up every hour tonight!

Most of the week thus far however, we dream feed her (she takes about 6 oz at 11) and bar the odd groan or even cry in her sleep dont hear anything till about 5am, when one of us need to do a dodi run, and then shes generally ok till between 7-8am. This is amazing progress for us. 2 weeks ago I was breastfeeding, co sleeping and feeding every 1-2 hours at night.

Crazy Mammy - progess???

newbaby2010 wrote:Hi there

Well as the wekk progresses our news is good. I am however fully aware that once I post that particular bit of news my lady will be up every hour tonight!

Most of the week thus far however, we dream feed her (she takes about 6 oz at 11) and bar the odd groan or even cry in her sleep dont hear anything till about 5am, when one of us need to do a dodi run, and then shes generally ok till between 7-8am. This is amazing progress for us. 2 weeks ago I was breastfeeding, co sleeping and feeding every 1-2 hours at night.

Crazy Mammy - progess???

Hey NB,
Sounds like you have it nearly perfect Mrs, delighted for you. No major improvement on my side. She does seem to feed less alright, very rarely sometimes I can settle her without a feed. The poor little woman has a cold at the moment so she's a bit out of sorts so dont want to be too hard on her these nights.

So at the mo this is what the night looks like,
Bedtime routine starts at 7 ( bath, story, BF) She wakes almost religiously about 1.5-2 hours later, BF. Then she could wake anywhere from every 1-3 hours after that, longest stretch I got the last week was four hours. She will look to nurse almost always but may only take about 2 decent feeds during the night. She's still in her own room but I took her into my bed last night at 4 because she was very unsettled with the cold and she eventually fell asleep about 4.30 and slept until 06.30, cuddle her and she back to sleep until 07.45

Do you mind if I ask NB (tell me to mind my own beeswax if you want) but are you giving your LO formula for her dream feed and do you think that it makes her stretch a bit longer than the BF. Wish my LO would take a bottle. Would love to see if DH could settle her like yours did.
Anyway DH reckons we are going to win the euromillions and I wont have to go back to work and that will solve all our problems, bless

Crazy Mammy wrote:

newbaby2010 wrote:Hi there

Well as the wekk progresses our news is good. I am however fully aware that once I post that particular bit of news my lady will be up every hour tonight!

Most of the week thus far however, we dream feed her (she takes about 6 oz at 11) and bar the odd groan or even cry in her sleep dont hear anything till about 5am, when one of us need to do a dodi run, and then shes generally ok till between 7-8am. This is amazing progress for us. 2 weeks ago I was breastfeeding, co sleeping and feeding every 1-2 hours at night.

Crazy Mammy - progess???

Hey NB,
Sounds like you have it nearly perfect Mrs, delighted for you. No major improvement on my side. She does seem to feed less alright, very rarely sometimes I can settle her without a feed. The poor little woman has a cold at the moment so she's a bit out of sorts so dont want to be too hard on her these nights.

So at the mo this is what the night looks like,
Bedtime routine starts at 7 ( bath, story, BF) She wakes almost religiously about 1.5-2 hours later, BF. Then she could wake anywhere from every 1-3 hours after that, longest stretch I got the last week was four hours. She will look to nurse almost always but may only take about 2 decent feeds during the night. She's still in her own room but I took her into my bed last night at 4 because she was very unsettled with the cold and she eventually fell asleep about 4.30 and slept until 06.30, cuddle her and she back to sleep until 07.45

Do you mind if I ask NB (tell me to mind my own beeswax if you want) but are you giving your LO formula for her dream feed and do you think that it makes her stretch a bit longer than the BF. Wish my LO would take a bottle. Would love to see if DH could settle her like yours did.
Anyway DH reckons we are going to win the euromillions and I wont have to go back to work and that will solve all our problems, bless

Course you can ask - she gets formula for her dream feed, and yes to be honest, I think she goes a bit longer with the formula, but a bottle of anything, breast milk or formula would prob help your LO, cos its volume usually isnt it! But your LO wont take a bottle still will she? Would she take a bottle in her sleep? ie the dream feed? If you just held it up to her lips in the cot?

Thanks Newbaby

The dreamfeed my be worth a try. She did a stretch at the start of the night (10 -1) and towards the morning (5-7) but inbetween its every hour or half hour. Dont know whats going on with her. Running out of ideas

DH and I are on Operation Bottle this week so hopefully she will start to take it. She is going to the childminder a few times in the next few weeks to ease her in so she will need to take a bottle for her too. Bit anxious about the whole thing now to be honest

Hope everyone else is getting some shut eye. x

Crazy Mammy wrote:Thanks Newbaby

The dreamfeed my be worth a try. She did a stretch at the start of the night (10 -1) and towards the morning (5-7) but inbetween its every hour or half hour. Dont know whats going on with her. Running out of ideas

DH and I are on Operation Bottle this week so hopefully she will start to take it. She is going to the childminder a few times in the next few weeks to ease her in so she will need to take a bottle for her too. Bit anxious about the whole thing now to be honest

Hope everyone else is getting some shut eye. x

so how did operation bottle go?!
we are pretty hit n miss these days. Now and again it goes well, but the past few nights have been awfyl

Newbaby

Sorry to hear things havent been as good, hope she has settled again for you. Maybe she was teething?

Things are as bad as ever here so tomorrow night DH is going to do what your DH did and just offer the bottle and comfort. Just wondering was the first night awful?? Did she cry alot for your DH, how long did it take to settle her. Did she have very broken sleep, imagining that we will be up all night with her. We're dreading it to be honest

Crazy Mammy wrote:Newbaby

Sorry to hear things havent been as good, hope she has settled again for you. Maybe she was teething?

Things are as bad as ever here so tomorrow night DH is going to do what your DH did and just offer the bottle and comfort. Just wondering was the first night awful?? Did she cry alot for your DH, how long did it take to settle her. Did she have very broken sleep, imagining that we will be up all night with her. We're dreading it to be honest

You are doing the right thing, getting your DH to see to her. It honestly wasnt as bad as we thought it was going to be, but mind you, my LO took bottles at that stage. And my DH is VERY patient,much more so than me. Is your LO taking bottles yet? Anyway, my DH just slept in her room for a week on a campbed and everytime she cried, he tried to shush and pat her in the cot, and if she got upset (every time for the first 3 days) he took her out and sat her in his lap as he sat next to the cot and lay her on his chest and just quietly said 'shush shuch' and rocked her gently for as long as it took (was up to 90 mins at the beginning, but this was down to 30mins within a day or two). When she got sleepy he lay her down. If she woke when he was settling her he just did it all again and he did it m,aybe 3/4 times the first night, and less and less over the next few days and it was honestly much much better within 4/5 days. Now we arent perfect still, but she only wakes up once a night usually, and one of us settles her, she might need lifintg from the cot, but sometimes its only the soother she needs, and shes slept through 3 times! Whoo hoo. It really wasnt as bad as we thought it would be. To us, the key was comforting her straight away, we think it really helped, as we think she was reassured by his immediate response and was relaxed then, and didnt feel scared, which we think she would have had we left her to cry it out.

When are you back at work?

Sounds like ye have it sorted.

Im back to work second week of Oct. Im not as worried about the childminder because I know she will drink water from her and I can give her a feed when we get home. To be honest I think it will easy enough to wean her during the day if she is not nursing at night because she has such a strong comfort association with it at the moment. She will take formula from me in the during the mornings but only about 1-2 oz. She will still look for the BF after though

New baby, do you still BF your LO during the day. Im just wondering if I kept the day feeds would this confuse her re night weaning. Maybe its a question for the BF support thread.

Anyway delighted for you that you have your LO sorted. Ye had a tough time with DH being sick, you need that long deserved shuteye xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Crazy Mammy wrote:Sounds like ye have it sorted.

Im back to work second week of Oct. Im not as worried about the childminder because I know she will drink water from her and I can give her a feed when we get home. To be honest I think it will easy enough to wean her during the day if she is not nursing at night because she has such a strong comfort association with it at the moment. She will take formula from me in the during the mornings but only about 1-2 oz. She will still look for the BF after though

New baby, do you still BF your LO during the day. Im just wondering if I kept the day feeds would this confuse her re night weaning. Maybe its a question for the BF support thread.

Anyway delighted for you that you have your LO sorted. Ye had a tough time with DH being sick, you need that long deserved shuteye xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thanks a mill.We are by no means 100% sorted, but I think a bit of attitude adjustment on my part helped. I now no longer expect my LO to sleep 12 hours at night. Dont think its by any means the 'norm'(in my opinion). If Im up once or twice in the night I think thats the way it will be and it will pass. She has a stinking cold at the mo and sure theres always something so we will just have to suck it up.

I also put either a fan or a radio on low in her room (lyric fm!) so its not silent and that helps too. And from day one of our new routine I fed her myslelf last thing at night at 7pm and first thing in the morning at 7am or whatever and it worked well. I still do that. And my DH gave her a dream feed at 11am which he still does and she takes from between 2-8 oz depending on the day. And for the past few nights he gave her baby nurofen at the same time as her 11pm bottle for her cold and that did her no harm either!

Just think, you could be sleeping through the night by the weekend!!
keep us posted

Well New baby, my DH is officially a saint.

I breastfed LO at 7.30 and she went down at 745. She woke at 910 (way earlier than usual) and my DH started the night shift. She cried for a solid 36 mins before she went down for him. She woke again at about 1130, cried, sleep 26 mins later. She woke again at 00.11. She cried solid for 52 mins so I gave in (DH was ok to keep going), I was afraid because she is used to nursing so much during the night that she was hungry/thirsty. DH was presenting her with a bottle all the time and by God there was no way she would take it. So I fed her, mind you she didnt take an enormous feed and went down. At this point i thought that I had ruined all the work DH had done and had wasted all the crying for nothing but she woke 2 times after this and went down no bother for him, barely any crying. I slept through the waking at 5 am so that's how quiet it was. She woke this morning at 7.30 all smiles and goo gaas. I thought that she would be mad anxious to feed but she was fine. Now she is wrecked today, napping loads.

Its like you said, its bad but not as bad as we thought. Now I dont know tonight could be awful but DH is great and reckons is ready for anything. Its small but progress

So glad you have started. And your DH is great. Is he working today? He will be tired.

Anyway, I think you did the right thing giving your LO a feed in the middle of HER night (if you know what I mean). You can play that one by ear. Its cruel to take everything away at once. Funny how she didnt take much though! Sneaky little babs!

Well one steps in and one steps out again - my LO was up 3 times before 5am when I took her into my bed and then she slept till 9am . What can you do.

Stupid question - but have you tried sneaking the bottle into her mouth when shes asleep. Cos sometimes they just suck in their sleep, never wake up and happy days. Try nice warm milk.

Keep me posted!!! x

Well ladies
Its very quiet on here. Is that cos everyones babies are sleeping well?!!
My LO is doing the same as ever. still waking between 4-5am and sometimes its for 15 mins and sometimes its for 1.5 hours!!
Other that that shes doing well. Still takes a dreasmfeed at nearly 10 months too.
Hows everyone doing? x

Hi everyone,

I haven't been on WOL in months and months, just other family stuff, all sorted now.

It looks like the thread is very quiet. everyone getting sleep?

new baby, is your LO sleeping thro for you now

My little woman is still a disaster, up 3-4 times a night, i still nurse her to sleep so I think thats where the problem lies. Doesnt help that she's talking now and asking for it in the middle of the night!

Well, I'm not so sleep deprived, most of it is pregnancy related now. DD 27 months has already spent a whole night in her own room. We only tried it once last week but then we were off for the weekend so back again to square one. It's not an official move yet as her room still has half built wardrobes in it so she's safer with us. She only wakes once a night and some nights not at all. So we know things get better without even having to 'fix' them.

Hi everyone,

This is my 1st time posting in this section. I've read through some of the other posts & its reassuring that we're not the only ones pulling our hair out in the middle of the night trying to get our Ds to settle. So basically Ds is 6 months & wakes without fail between 3.00 & 4.00am & will look for a feed. Soother doesn't work. Tried the controlled crying 2 nights ago which involved me doing alot of sshing & rubbing his head. After an hour & a half he fell back to sleep till 7.00am then drank 5oz. Last night he woke at 3.45 & after doing same thing as previous night he fell asleep at 4.30am but then woke again 15mins later. My DH gave in & got him a bottle. He only drank 4oz! He has been like this for nearly 3 weeks & its only this week that we decided we needed to take action. I think I've aged 10 years in the last few weeks!

So basically his routine is bed at 7.30 - takes 7/8oz bottle. Wakes around 11/12 & takes another 7/8oz. Then wakes again between 3 & 4am zzzzzzzzzzz

The thing is he is he is brutal to take bottles during the day & takes very little food so then makes up for it in the evening. Have tried getting him to drink more during the day by getting him up earlier, offering bottle throughout day (doesn't work), tried taking his lead & waiting for him to look for bottle but once he does he would only take 4oz! Basically he would be happy to go all day without food or bottle then pack it in the evening which obviously isn't ideal

Any suggestions?

From a very tired mammy