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SLEEP => Night Wakings => Topic started by: kezzi78 on December 13, 2005, 21:21:59 pm
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My LO is 131/2 weeks old. She goes to bed around 7.00pm and goes down within an hour. I DF between 10.30pm/11.00pm but then the longest stretch she goes is four hours. She weighs 11lbs 1oz does this have any affect?
I have tried feeding her more during the day but she has just gone to a four hour EASY as she was refusing the boob on three hour. Have tried offering both boobs, once she has finished on one, offer the other no joy!!!
please help
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sounds to me like she needs more calories in the daytime, this is harder to gage since you are BF but this would be my guess. after reading the book I felt this pressure and sense that logan should be sleeping through but no matter how much I try to feed him more in the day he still wakes once at around 3am and goes down around 7 - 7:30. He weighs far more though, he's pushing 16lbs. maybe she isn't ready for a 4 hour easy, logan is not.....he still eats every 3 or 3.5..............it will come.........i am convinced!!!
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There is no set weight feeding routine or "trick" to get a baby to sleep through & mostly they sleep through for a while & then a milestone changes that & they wake up again & the cycle goes on, they get sick &/or teeth & they wake up if they were sleeping through.
I have to say the best suggestion is to make sure your lo isn't helped to sleep before bedtime & that you feed well during the day & eventually it should happen...some babies are better than others... I have one good & one bad sleeper & I can tell you, Don't wait for it to happen, just expect to have broken nights of sleep for a long while yet & adjust your life to fit that & it WILL be so much easier... waiting & expecting the "sleep through" is very stressful... accepting that they may not, makes the times they do so enjoyable KWIM