![]() The other thing about b'feeding through the night (which I found) is that your more likely just to latch them on to get them back off to sleep, regardless of the actual problem therefore it can become somewhat of a false crux for both of you.Health visitor Penny Lazell describes some of the things you can do to help your child settle to sleep. What I did find with my son is that by night weaning it definitely reduced the amount of time he woke, I mean he still woke up in the night but he wasn't constantly faced with a bedtime drink on tap so when he woke it was just for a cuddle. Having tried cc with my son & being strict about feeds before bed not through the night etc (before I'm gunned down it actually worked really well and with mininum distress) & having gone the ohter way with my daughter, co sleeping, bfeeding on demand (I feel your pain re: sore hips) I think sleep regression or no sleep regression - by now you'd know pretty much whether you've got a sleeper or a not so great sleeper on your hands. I'm in a similar situation with my dd (15 months) & remember going through a very similar phase starting at around 15 months ish with my ds until, well he regularly slept through when he was 3/4 ish. How long is this likely to continue? Weeks? Months? ![]() I just wonder if anyone is in a similar situation and even better, if the ones with older toddlers could share their experiences. It all seems like magic in her case though: her DS was constantly BFing too day and night, so she's amazed how a month after telling him the milk's finished, he's only asked for a BF once and even then was easily distracted and in the night he never wakes for a BF any more ! ![]() Also he has 6 teeth breaking through (he's a very late teether) so obviously that bothers him to an extent.Ī friend of mine, whose DS, (four months older than mine) was very similar, recently stopped breastfeeding and now her DS sleeps through no problem at all. Mostly he wakes up talking and sitting up so I'm thinking it's developmental (learning to speak). If I try to settle him in the night in any other way, he will throw a massive tantrum and no one gets any sleep so I just give up (I work naptimes and until late in the evenings from home, so the little sleep I get I'd rather have without a fight). He wakes up every 1-2 hours throughout the night and won't settle without a BF. We co-sleep and DS is in his 'side-car'-cot next to me. ![]() He then wakes up at around 9.30 and DH goes in to resettle him and he wakes up again at around 10.30-11pm at which point we all go to sleep. BT is the same, so BF lying down and then I hold him and sing and put hom down, all in all this typically takes about 45min and he's typically asleep by about 8.30-8.45pm. He no longer really falls asleep on the breast so I pick him up and sing him back to sleep. I was just curious to see what other toddlers are like at this stage.ĭS takes one nap, usually 1-3, but needs resettling once mid-nap. DS is a week shy of 19 months and has never been a very good sleeper, so by now I've pretty much given up and just rolling with the punches.
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