Ryn - thanks for the info re the lavender - I have been putting some in Rylee's room at night - will stop doing it.
Karina - If I had a dollar for every person who said to me "are you STILL feeding at night" I would be a very rich person - I figure if she's hungry, she's hungry - and if someone (adult or baby) is hungry then there is no way they will go back to sleep. Claire is not even 5 months yet - I think she may still need a bit of food overnight to get her through, though I may be wrong and some babies don't - and you definitely don't want to know about the babies who sleep through from the day they come home in hospital (do they actually exist????). The only other thing if you want to try and stop the feeding overnight is to only feed the alternate times she wakes up but if she relies on booby to get back to sleep this may be a bit difficult. The Annie Gethin book - Helping your baby to sleep really explains why in fact babies do wake up and why they are programmed to - it is interesting and kinda helped me stopped feeling a little bit annoyed when I would get woken up 10 times a night.

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