Oh- and reading back it sounds like i HELD HIM WHILE HE SCREAMED FOR HOURS!!!
See, this is the difference. I don't know if spirited persistence of what, but Logan screamed for 3hr with DH (imagine if it had been me
) and DH buckled and yelled at me to just feed him, why would I stop feeding him if he wants it so much?!
That's the longest he screamed (and it was on day 6) but we stopped after that because I see it as pointless to feed him after he's screamed for 3hr. Just reinforces that he should scream long and loud enough and he'll get fed
Amanda, I get the teeth thing, I do but that's been the argument on and off for 6 months now and in between, its been illness, mental leap, SA.
Having said all that, he slept a 9hr stretch last night and I woke 4 times because my body is so used to anticipating when he's going to wake
At 4:30, just as I was thinking he'd STTN, he woke and wanted me, but he's still asleep now at 6:20 which is awesome since he was in bed last night at 7:20 off the back of a 3hr nap and a 4hr10 A time after that. Maybe he's waking from OT and we just have to get more sleep into him... how I don't know because we're just not at home long enough at night for him to have a 12hr night on a regular basis
Bec, L understands things pretty well, maybe just explain to him that there's no more milk at night and stick to it?
Lovely thought, and I really don't want to minimise any of you lovely ladies' suggestions at all. Last time I did this (around 16 months I think), he woke and yelled out 'mummy' instead of just crying and then when I reminded him no milk, oh wow did he go nuts! He bit me, pulled my hair, scratched me and screamed the house down - it was awful.
My resolve to wean is gone again this morning
maybe I was just grumpy and tired
Anna - Logan's front teeth did graze me quite a bit when he got them and sometimes if he was teething. I would just put that breast away and say it was sore and he'd somehow compensate on the other side, so I think he eventually learned that whatever he was doing wasn't on. That was only ok after he'd had a go feeding from it though, refuse to give him a breast in the first place and he'd act as if I'd said I'd never feed him again.