Hi all,
I have a question that's really about sleep but I'm putting it on here because I think it's BLW-related so wanted to get your opinions and see if anyone else has had a similar experience.
My DD (7 months yesterday) has been STTN for almost three months now, with a dreamfeed. About 6 weeks ago we started moving the dreamfeed earlier until it was at 8pm, and she was still sleeping through fine, 7pm-6.30am. Then for about a week she was up every night with teething pain - I was comfort feeding her a little so I stopped doing the dreamfeed as she was sometimes getting a small feed in the night anyway. So once teething was over (two shiny whites to show for it) I dropped the dreamfeed completely and she slept through for two nights in a row. However, since then, about a week now, she's been waking up at odd times and WILL NOT be consoled by anything other than a feed (and she's usually great at settling if she does have the odd night waking).
Could this be a growth spurt, and could it have anything to do with the fact that we're doing BLW instead of spoon feeding? I mean, I imagine she's starting to need more sustenance, and although she's doing great with BLW, there are days when not all that much goes in, IYKWIM, especially when I compare it to the amount of puree being shovelled into some of my friends' babies. We were on a pretty solid EASY routine for milk feeds, every four to five hours, but am wondering if I need to offer her milk more frequently? For the past couple of days I have been offering her an extra feed after breakfast and lunch and she's taken them quite enthusiastically....but she's still woken that night. The wakings are at a different time each night, but always between 12.30 and 3.30am.
Our EASY on a good day looks roughly like this:
E: 6.30 (BF)
E: 7.45 (solids)
A: 6.30 - 9
S: 9-11
E: 11 (BF)
E: 12.15/30 (solids)
A: 11 - 1.45/2
S: 2 - 4
E: 4 (BF)
E: 5.15 (more of a snack than proper dinner at this stage)
A: 4 - 7
Bedtime routine at 6.30: bath, final BF, stories
Bed at 7
Thanks!