Hi,
Just wish to offer my support and my experience. My DS was sleeping 13 hours then stopped. For 3 months we struggled on with betting up 4-5 times a night. End result was that he was hungry, I'm still b'feeding but for a while there gave him up to 100mls of cows milk from 10 - 11 months of age to settle him at night, worked a treat for us. I also used to add a bit of oatbran to his dinner to add a bit of bulk in his tummy. After these 2 things he was straight back to his earlier sleeping habits.
Anyway that's our experience. hope it helps
Turned out I was starting to cycle again and then got pregnant possibly leading to him not liking my milk for a while.
hope you find some answers and a solution soon.
Ok an update, well on Thursday night I put him to bed after giving him some extra to eat and a bit of booby, he went to bed at 6:20 and woke at 8:20 and DH patted him to sleep and he slept til 1am and had a feed and went back to sleep until 5am and had another feed and I started to pat him but really bad hayfever, so DH took over and he then slept til 6:50am. So I felt a bit better having had some extra sleep. Last night, he really hadn't had a sleep during the day so was tired early so I only got to give him his normal size meal and no extra and he was in bed by 5:45pm and he slept til about midnight and DH brought him in for a feed and he was back in bed by 12:30am (awake I may add) and he slept til 3am and I gave him another feed and put him back to be awake but I had to pat, then he woke again at 5am and I patted him but he only slept 10-15mins, but I think he is getting better at least better then the other night.
Ang Wyatt also gets night terrors and he wakes up crying and just wanders around the house but still seems out of it and usually he doesn't go back to sleep for a few hours, if you google it you should find out more about it that's how I found out the symptoms. Oh I think they said that it's like a cycle, if they don't sleep much then they get the night terrors and because they get the night terrors they don't get much sleep. Wyatt usually has night terrors for a week or more and the last time he had them it was only for about 3 days so it varies, I also think boys are more prone to them then girls from what I read. If you want to email me about it or want to talk about it some more just drop me a line.
Rory Cody's the opposite of Flynn, he loves to be cuddled and patted, but I soo kwym, Lockie was like that didn't like been held to sleep or rock. I have let Cody whinge til he's fallen asleep, but when he's standing in his cot screaming is the worst. How's Flynn and his cold going?
AmyGirl thank you so much for all your information, both DH and I were worried that he was going to get to use to been patted to sleep and that is defineately not what we want.
Fee I hope that Cooper stays sleeping good for you, it's so hard when they don't self settle, know that I'm thinking of you and know how you feel.
Joy I took your advise about maybe he's hungry and that is the reason I've started to give him more food for dinner. So I'm hoping this will help him sleep long and be the happy boy that I know he is. I've been having stomach cramps for the last 3 weeks and I had a BT to see if I was pg and it was neg, but the doctor also suggested that my cycle may be trying to start again.
Thank you so much ladies, it's nice to know that your not alone when this sort of thing happens.
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