Hi,
I'm after a bit of advice. Our little girl is almost 6 months now (she is our 3rd) and, apart from 3 days at 9 weeks, has never slept through the night. I'm sure this is our fault as we tend to feed her when she wakes in the night to get her back off again but at the moment it is the only time I can guarantee she will drink her milk!
Like her older sister she isn't a fan of milk and I have had to drop from 6oz to 5oz bottles as we were wasting so much. I have started her on solids about a month ago as she wasn't drinking much milk and I felt she needed more.
So, night times she is waking twice between 7pm and 6am. One around 10/11pm and then another time around 4/5am. To be fair she does drink milk then go back off again, but surely she should have dropped one of these feeds by now?
Daytimes are a bit all over the shop at the moment as she seems to be going through the transition of 3 naps to 2 (she refuses the late afternoon cat nap that she needs grrr!), but our routine generally goes like this:
7am - wake
8am - breakfast (she refuses a bottle here so I just give her 4oz milk with porridge which she eats all up)
9am - nap
11am - bottle (4oz maybe)
12pm - solid lunch
1pm - nap
3pm - bottle (5oz)
5pm - solid tea
6-7pm - bedtime routine and bottle (5oz)
10/11pm - bottle (5oz)
3/4am - bottle (the amount varies here - could be 2oz, could be 5oz)
Her naps vary in length, today for example she had 1/5hrs at each - but normally she will only sleep 40 mins a time! We don't rock her to sleep (although we did in the early days until I realised how sore my back was getting!), she doesn't have a dummy but does like to hug her muslin. She can't be getting cold as we've got an oil heater in her room to keep it warm at night.
I just think she's in a very bad habit and I won't to know how to tackle it! We never had this problem with our other 2!
Many thanks in advance for your help.
Katie