Not MY problem...

Loving the sound of that routine, Krystie. As you know, that's more sleep than Phoebe and I are getting atm. Wish I could be as relaxed about it as you, but your attitude is encouraging and inspirational. One day I'm sure we will sleep. LOL!

Krystie - the saying "if it ain't broke, dont fix it" comes to mind here, although Kyson's routine might not suit other mothers, who cares, it only needs to suit one Mummy - YOU!

I used to get sick of people asking if Bailey slept through the night - in the end I just started saying YES, much easier and then people stop offering you 'advice' that you really dont need or want.

Every situation is different, we've been working on our sleep here as I am going back to work in 8 weeks, so sleeping through the night in our household has a different effect to yours (I'm making this point to show that every families needs are different LOL).

Anyway, from meeting you and your beautiful smiley Kyson and seeing endless photo's there is no doubt in my mind that what you are doing is absolutely PERFECT - so keep doing it, you are raising a wonderful, happy, healthy and confident little man!!

Nay x

Just read your post and had to laugh - a friend of mine said my 7and a half week old should be sleeping through by now! She also thinks he needs to go on solids because he's a big baby and has lots of feeds. AT SEVEN WEEKS OLD!!! Suffice to say I totally disregard any parenting advice she gives out.

Some people have some funny ideas don't they? Lol.

Just wanted to thank everyone again for all their support.

I had someone ask me today "Is he a good baby?". I said "of course he is". They then said "so he sleeps through the night then?". Grrrrrrrr! Comments like that make me SO angry! Just because a baby doesn't sleep through the night DOES NOT make then a bad baby! Sorry, had to vent! :P

Oh I hate that "good-baby" question too Krystie!! It really bothers me. I generally say "well there's no such thing as a bad baby is there?" It (hopefully) makes them stop and think about what they've just implied (probably unintentionally).

I read in another thread recently that up to 50% of babies don't sleep through the night regularly during the first year. So if people want to equate good with sleeping through, we should ask them if they did or didn't sleep through when they were a baby!

Hey hun, Kyson sounds perfectly 'normal' to me !!!! ;) Nothing wrong with his sleeping.
He's a perfectly normal baby who wakes when he needs to and settles however he needs to.

We co-sleep, DD wakes often still at 13mths of age, but we don't stress about it and a few mths ago learnt to accept that she just needs us in the middle of the night (sometimes more than once or twice!! LOL!) and that's okay too.

PPPffft!!!! Don't worry what others think. What would they know about Kyson anyway? ;)

I can't believe sleep schools even exist.

Hope it's all going well chick x

Aah yep. Both mine fed frequently overnight for months and months and months.

I night weaned DS at 15 mths when I was 3 mths pregnant with DD, but you know what.. he still woke at night until he was 2 1/2. Whether they are waking for milk or for comfort, both are important needs that we should meet. Sounds like you're doing a great job.

and FWIW I know my kids both still needed those night feeds at that age. No way was it just comfort feeding. In fact that's when they got their best feeds!

I used to just reply with "I don't understand why it worries you.. it's not you waking up at night" since it was mostly my mother that would harp on about it. I think people are so afraid of setting up bad habits with babies... but honestly.. we have had no habits formed from the frequent feeding, cosleeping etc etc that we've done. Unfortunately people need to actually see the results to believe you on that score... but once you prove that there was no rod for your back, it's much easier with the next baby to fob off the silly comments.

ETA: oh... but one thing that really really annoyed me... because we'd chosen not to "train" our babies to sleep all night.. we somehow lost the right to have a tired day and have a whinge. If I even mentioned that we had a bad night and I was really tired, I received little sympathy and it just started up the stupid comments and suggestions of how to make them sleep. argh. Just let me have a vent and feel tired!