Dream feeding - does it work????
Well we are in a sleep deprived household atm and I am willing ti try anything just so we can sleep!!!!:asleep:
DS Alex started sleeping thru at around 3 months but never consistently and lately it seems to be getting worse. We follow the same routine every night including the good old bath then bottle. He is not ill, there are no noticable teeth coming through and he doesnt "appear" to be having a growth spurt. But what he has been doing for the past 2-3 months issleeping through one night and then waking approx 2 times the next.
So we know that he CAN sleep through we just dont understand why he doesnt. Have tried resettling him when he wakes and sometimes this works. He wont take water in the middle of the night and we dont remove him from his room or put on bright lights. The thing that tends to get him back to sleep is a small bottle (around 120mls).
I have to admit that sometimes we are a bit hasty in giving him the bottle in the night but that is because his bedroom is right next to DD's and we dont want his screaming (and quite often it is screaming) to wake her up.
So my question is - to those of you who have tried givinga dream feed do you find it stops them waking during the night??? As we dont know what else to try.
To top it all off for the past 2 weeks DD has been coming into our bed during the night (last night it was 3 times!) si if its not one that is waking us it is the other!!!! Man I am so dead to the world today...
Catching up on sleep - what do others do?
Cooper has been such a great sleeper from 8 weeks through to 4 months, and then he started to wake up, and sometimes I'll be getting up 4 times a night, either to put the dummy back in, or for a feed, or he might be just grizzly.
I do know that generally we don't have it too hard - but I am a single Mum and even though I am staying with my parents for a year or two, I am the only one getting up in the night to comfort him. They are helpful during the day, but I try to not put too much on them.
If I have had a hard night, the next morning after the first feed, when I put Cooper down for a sleep, I try to at least get maybe half our sleep just to catch up. If I don't, I feel like an absolute MONSTER! I have been snappy with Mum and Dad, and just can't focus. I feel like I am the only one who can gets this cranky! I know I am not that bad, but sometimes I feel like just crying cause I feel so foggy headed.
Most of the time I can catch up on the sleep, but I am wondering what everyone else out there does when they are sleep deprived? Does many Mums do what I do and try to catch up?