Sleeping through!?
I keep seeing posts where people have babies who sleep through the night -my baby does not, but I would love him to!
What are people doing to get this to happen?
At the minute we start bedtime around 7-7:30, depending on his wake windows and naps through the day, we change his bum and baby grow and then feed him to sleep in his room, in the dark with white noise (falling asleep around 8ish). Then we hold him in our arms until we go to bed (around 10:30 and he doesn’t stir at all, he’s just snuggly) I’ll then try to dream feed (sometimes he does, sometimes he doesn’t). Then he’ll sleep in his basket until around 1:30/2am. Then he’ll get up typically once or twice more through the night.
During the get ups we change his bum and feed him back to sleep, I wouldn’t say he’s awake for more than 30 minutes during this time - he’s breastfed during this time. I try to keep him eating for as long as possible by tickling his cheek and feet etc.
What are you doing differently/what advice would you give if you have a baby that does sleep longer stretches/through the night?
Tia xx
Breastfeeding
My baby is 6 days old and was due today, a May turned April baby!
Anyway, he was so sleepy during the days up until today, feeding all night. We saw the midwife yesterday on day 5 who said we should be waking him to feed every 2 hours, get him naked, annoy him until he feeds. We did that yesterday (albeit maybe more than every 2 hrs) then yesterday evening whilst my husband was bathing my almost 3 yr old (maybe about 7pm), the baby woke and fed, and fed and fed until about 1am when he was so fussy at the breast, I’d had enough and felt like he’d drunk me dry! I was in tears, so tired, frustrated and depleted. I passed the baby to my husband, who managed to settle him to sleep for a while so I could rest. I realise this is cluster feeding but it didn’t seem like he was getting anything, just us both getting more and more frustrated.
This has carried on into today, I feel like there’s no milk there for him. I am engorged, I’ve been massaging the breast, swapping sides and it seems the latch is good. He just doesn’t seem to get the good flow that he started with yesterday evening. He’s on and off like a yo yo, getting so so fussy, hands everywhere, shaking his head, screaming at me. It’s not nice.
It’s taken me a while to write this because he has been so on and off and fussy. It seems he’s had a good amount now because he’s just literally become the most content he’s been all day, and actually fallen sound asleep for one of the first times today.
Anyone else had this, is it normal?
Anything I’m doing wrong?
I struggled to breastfeed my first and supplemented with formula early and pumped etc but I’m reluctant to resort to formula unless I really need to. He’s being weighed again tomorrow and we have some feeding support at the hospital so hopefully get some answers but just thought I’d ask here too.
