Hello...just curious as to what time your little ones have their last feed for the night and then go to bed.
For a couple of months DDs last feed has been between 5 and 6pm, we follow the same routine of play, bath, cuddles and then put her to bed. This meant she then slept until between 3.30 and 5am when she woke for a feed then went back to bed until between 7.30 and 8.30am.
This isn't working anymore and she is waking between midnight and 2am for another feed (and then taking over an hour to resettle)...wondering if this may be too early for her now seeing that she is a bit older? We are trying a dream feed tonight, but curious as to what other do.
Sorry, this may not be what you want to hear, but aparently its not uncommon for babies to change their pattern at around 4 months and become more wakeful at night... Natalie certainly changed from being a baby who was happy to do at least 5 hours, usually 6-8 hours before a feed at night, to one who woke 4-hourly. Now she wakes 2-4 times between 7pm and 7am...
Hopefully you can find something that works for you and Grace, but you're not alone in having a baby who suddenly decides that nighttime is party time!
I've heard that moving bedtime later rarely works... Bubs still wakes through the night, but can be overtired and harder to settle... Also you don't get 'your time' if you keep her up...
Obviously it is totally your choice, and everything is worth a go IMO And I'll look out for any advice you're given as I could do with some too, LOL.
Sounds like you have been doing a great job so far, your little one might just need that little top up to go through the night. My DD use to feed about 5.30 -6 then go to bed & still does, then i would do a dream feed around 10pm, she would then sleep until around 6.30. At around 12wks of age i started to decrease the amount of milk at the 10pm feed because she was starting to go off her breakfast. I would see how this dream feed works for your DD otherwise maybe split the 5pm feed eg: give 3/4 of a feed prior to bath then a top up before bed.
Eleanor will feed sometimes between 4.30 and 5.30pm. Most nights she is in bed by 6pm and wakes anytime from 5am. Sometimes she wakes at 4am and takes ages to get back to sleep.
Every night she has a play time with nothing on and most nights she has a bath. I've never followed a rountine as it depends on what i am doing at feed times and also when Eleanor last fed as she doesn't sleep much during the day.
Most babies start to wake during the night when they are going through a growth spurt as well.
If it's any consolation, my bub Khali is twelve months and is not sleeping through the night. she has dinner with us sometime between 6pm and 8pm and goes to bed at about 8.30 depending on if she has had a good sleep in the afternoon. She sleeps till I come to bed and then has a dream feed (I like that term) - she doesn't really wake up, and 1 or two more feeds through the night. She is still in our room so it's not really a problem. Sometimes she does want to party in the middle of the night. When she was a bit younger, we would swaddle her and rock her back to sleep. Good luck with your bub
Dream feed - love the term, sounds so angelic!! I actually wake Lelani up for her last feed Change her diper and feed her, she has no problem going back to sleep on the bottle. But I do have problems getting any wind out of her then. I tried everything I could think of, but when that lady sleeps, she's out!!! On rare occasions she will wake up 10 minutes after I put her down, then I pick her up, she burps and go back to sleep.
We don't really have a set routine and i think we should have one actually!
Jett usually has a feed at about 8pm, has a kick around then falls asleep in the lounge room until about 10-11 pm when he has another feed then bed where he will sleep until around 6.15am, has another feed then goes back to sleep until about 9am.
From what I have heard, our bubs should be starting to not sleep a little more now they have hit the 4 month mark..yeh great right? I'd say give the dreamfeed a go and It might help, perhaps do it when you are about to go to bed yourself
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Snacks - you're right, I didn't want to hear that, lol!
Thanks for all of your responses. Well, I tried the dream feed which went really well up until 5 minutes ago when she woke up! DH is trying to settle her again. Maybe I just have to get used to the idea that she might just wake through the night. Doesn't sound so unusual at 4 months after speaking to other people.
Wow, I was just thinking how well our bubs settles & we've lately been able to get up when he wakes, wrap him (as he escapes), pop the dummy in & go back to bed for another couple hours before he actually wakes for a feed. Meaning we are now only feeding once during the night - but after what some of you have said I'm a little afraid that may go all pear shaped when he hits 4months....I hope not.
I never set a bedtime for Charlie, but he's always in bed before 7pm, seems he can't last past 2hrs after his afternoon nap. So if he has an early nap I need to get him to have a power nap around 5pm so he's not in bed too early or we are up at 5am!!!! ouch.
Rachel, I pushed Oskar's bath time to around 7:30pm and last feed after that... so anywhere from 8 - 9pm. He cluster feeds most afternoons from around 3pm, so it's pretty full on for about 5 hours and is pretty tiring, but *touch wood* he sleeps through most nights. Sometimes to push him through to 7:30pm for bath I'll feed him at 6/6:30 (if he's getting tired) and then I'll let him have a half hour nap then do the bath, massage, little chat, wrap, feed then bed. Sometimes he'll wake up one more time after an hour - sometimes just for a burp or a little cuddle and sometimes he wants a small top up.
Don't stress, Erin. They're all different.
LOL, sorry Rachel... I totally understand where you're coming from. You never know - it could just be a phase and she may go back to a similar pattern as before
Our DS currently goes to bed around 9:30 pm and then his next feed is usually around 7 am...but he doesn't sleep that whole time...he generally wakes up 3 - 8 times a night but I don't feed him any more.
At 4.5 months old he was going to bed around 11:30 pm and was waking once or twice a night for a feed but other than that he slept through till 7 am. We tried putting him down earlier but he was then waking much earlier to 'start the day' and it was killing me. In the end we preferred to put him to bed later so we could at least sleep for most of the night and not get up too early.
Good luck! I think all bubbas are VERY different with their sleeping patterns and you just never know when it's going to change again...usually every few weeks it changes for us...
Rachel, our little man still doesn't sleep through and he's 16 months old. He has had a strict bed routine from when he was 9 weeks old and I think that does help. He was still being wrapped until he was 8 months old but at 4 months he still fed 2-3 times over night. His sleep really fell apart at about 9 months as we wnt to the UK for Christmas and then moved house twice whe we got home. He has also been teething since January with his 7th tooth appearing this week so I can't blame him for being unsettled, I'm sure his little mouth hurts. He'll sleep when he's ready but I sure hope that is soon as his little sister is due in November! Good luck with your little one.
we used to put hollie to bed with last feed around 10pm sometimes 10.30pm and she would sleep til morning, around 6 or 7am.... then i decided she should be going to be earlier, and put her to bed at i think 7pm one time... this was the worst mistake of my life, as she woke at 2am and thought it was time to get up... it has taken quite a few weeks to get back on track, but she now goes down at 8.30pm and so far we don't hear from her until morning... she has her first feed at 7am....
they seem to chop and change their routine alot, but from what i can gather it may only last a few weeks and then settle down again.... at the time though you are thinking it is never going to end...
is baby getting enough stimulationg during the day? and how many hours of naps? i have just discovered that by limiting hollies day time naps, and keeping her up longer so she is very tired just before bed, makes her sleep better. but of course every baby is different so it may be disasterous for you.
What time does your little one got to bed?
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And I'll look out for any advice you're given as I could do with some too, LOL.
Change her diper and feed her, she has no problem going back to sleep on the bottle. But I do have problems getting any wind out of her then. I tried everything I could think of, but when that lady sleeps, she's out!!! On rare occasions she will wake up 10 minutes after I put her down, then I pick her up, she burps and go back to sleep.
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