Miss A had her 4 month check with the CHN on Tuesday, who suggested that the many, many maaaaaany night feeds that Miss A is having are quite likely because she is either in her hammock next to my side of the bed, or in bed next to me, and can smell my milk and is therefore either (A) not hungry but the smell is triggering a need in her for a cuddle or (B) the smell lets her know I'm there and so she is "manipulating" me to get attention. She basically told me that if I have any hope of getting her to sleep longer and feed less then she needs to sleep alone in her own room

I'm tending to think that this is complete rubbish, given the same CHN also told me that I should be seriously considering putting her on solids now, but thought I'd just put it out there in case there is any truth to it (the co-sleeping bit, not the manipulation bit). I'm not ready to shovel her off to her own room yet, but if just moving the hammock from my side of the bed to the other side of the room will give me more than 2.5 hours of very, very broken sleep each night I'll seriously consider it.

Thanks.