Problem I have though, is that most nights, I wake up long enough to get us aligned so she can attach, and then I'm back asleep lol. It's only the times like now, when I'm going to blame teething lol, that causes the problems. I'm not used to actually being 'awake' over night, and certainly not every hour.
Hi girls,
i just wanted to let you know that i am co-sleeping with my DD and not breast feeding anymore. Unfortunately we fell pregnant by accident (took three years to concieve DD) which we are happy about now but big shock when it happened (fourteen weeks now) this meant that the combination of pregnancy hormones and bad all day all night sickness dried up all my milk and i had to stop BF'ing. Was not happy at the time as was planning on feeding until she wanted to stop and she was a boob machine. So we switched her over to the bottle with goats milk and now no Bf'ing but still co-sleeping happily. She has a bottle before bed and then one overnight if she needs it. She is a bit older than your little munchkins though she is nearly 13 months. I feel your pain i was there a few months ago. It does get better, they are discovering new things eg: walking, teeth etc and this affects their sleep for sure as you have all said. I want to compliment you all on making the decision to co-sleep i firmly believe that if this is what your child needs then that is what they need. It is a hard road to choose especially when you have people around you who think you are crazy and tell you off but it is worth it in the end i am sure.
Lots of love hugs and kisses to you all
Wish i was still part of the BF'ing crew
Hope you all get some sleep soon
Hi Girls,
Some very encouraging news there re the pregnany-thing - congratulations to you both!
Just an update on something I've found that has helped DS sleep a bit better lately - I've stopped snuggling him under the crook of my arm all night. I found this caused him to constantly look for the boob (I suppose because it was right in his face!).
Anyway, instead, I'm sleeping him inbetween our pillows in his own little space in the middle of the bed - at our head-height (we have a KS bed...). I then put my Bfing pillow (a milkbar) next to him (as he seems to quite like being snuggled by something - I'm knitting him a teddy, so I'll try that soon instead), and I sleep on the other side of that. It just keeps me a bit further away from him - as I'm sure he can smell me!
I've also kept him covered with a blanket (he's outside of my covers), and when he wakes I sit up a bit and lean over to feed him. When I feel he's finished I pop my pinky in and he often just rolls over or I press under his chin lightly and if he doesn't stir, I let go.
Feeding him this way has meant that I have to wake up a bit more than if I just lay there with him having a guzzle, however, the other night he slept for 5 hrs straight! Amazing! At about 5:30 he seems to want more booby, so I snuggle him into my arm again (that last hr or 2 of morning sleep are really to be preserved at all costs!).
Anyway, hope this helps (sorry it's a bit long).
ps. Very interested to know how I can get pg whilst still bfding/co-sleeping. Inlove, you would be about where I am now when you conceived #2. Any tips?
Hi guys,
hope last night you all got some sleep.
Rainforest have no idea what i am going to do. A friend has bought sara a bed for her first birthday so i think i am going to start with day sleeps in her bed and see how we go from there. Her room is right next to ours and i am hoping that by the time number two arrives she might sleep in her own bed for most of the night and just come in early in the morning. I have heard of people who have had four in the bed but i am hoping to avoid this as much as i love co-sleeping i will have to go back to work at three months with this one and it was hard enough when i went back at six months with sara. Am holding out hope that this one will be happy to sleep in a cot in our room, we tried that with sara but there was no way.
MELODY7 Bit of a funny story really. I broke my leg at start of May and i couldn't do much so was feeling pretty rested for the first time since sara was born (once the pain of the broken leg went away of course) I have only had about four periods starting from when sara was about five months old. We DTD a few times when sara was littler just waited till she was asleep. At the moment we have a double bed mattress and a single mattress next to each other on the floor at the time we got pregnant sara was sleeping in the single mattress on her own for the first half of the night (not anymore since no boobies) so no worries about her being right there and killing the mood. I was so shocked when i realised that i was pregnant, we joked about it at the time but never thought we could be. It took three years and one miscarriage to have sara we did accupuncture and chinese medicine etc so we were like this can't be true. I noticed that month that i had lots of fertile mucus so i guess i was really fertile that month.
Not much help, good luck though.
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