Hi
I have been trying to express for a few months now with out much luck...only able to get out about 30mls! We thought that if I could express enough for a feed my husband could feed Thomas and hopefully it would help with his clingyness to me. Thomas was doing really well, feeding great, sleeping through the night....until about 12wks old then it all changed! He still feeds well but since then has started to wake up during the night and now at just over 7mth he is terrible! I know its not due to lack of food as if I pick him up and cuddle him he is fine and if he sleeps in bed with me he is fine(I'm not as I cant sleep when hes next to me in bed) and will sleep until about 8am! We want to get him into his own room so for the last few months have been trying different things to get him sleeping better at night as now he is waking up every hour then after about 3.30 he may sleep until about 5.30 or 6. I dont want to leave him to cry as it just wakes everyone up(I have a 2yr old) and takes him longer to settle afterwards. We have tried the nice bath followed by a nice long feed in the bedroom with no lights on, this didnt work! We have tried just my husband going to him and settling him but this only works until about 3ish then he just wont settle at all so that when I genrally feed him. He has started to sleep really well during the day and he gets himself off to sleep, he has 2 naps the first one is for about 1.5hrs and the second one is for about 2hrs so I take it from this he can get himself back off when he wake up during the sleep cycles....so why wont he do this in the evening??? My husband suggested we give him formula for the bedtime feed, so we went out and bought the bottles(tommie tippy breastfeeding ones) and some stickpacks and did this for 5nights and it did nothing at all infact I think he woke up more! Sorry I know this is very long winded and may make no sense at all but I really dont know what else to do to try and help him learn to fall back to sleep during the night! My husband starts his new job on Monday and he is getting quite nervous that he may not be able to do much more on a few broken hours of sleep while learning a new role. Any help or tips would be great and if anyone can shed any light on why he might have gone from sleeping through to waking all the time that would be great to!
Thanks
Sus
xx