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Night wakings and feeding times - help!
« on: October 12, 2007, 15:47:13 pm »
Ok so we finally got our LO to go down at night with no cry it out:) which is GREAT. Some nights she has gone with only 1-2 feeds until 705am. However, lately (she is almost 17 weeks) she is up constantly at night. Here is our schedule now:

705 am wake and feed (so odd, but usually it is 705am on the nose that she is ready to the start the day)
830am Nap (usually 45 mins or so - swaddle)
11pm breast feed
12pm Nap (usually 45 mins sometimes 1-2 hours - swaddle)
3pm Breast Feed
430/5pm Short Nap (sometimes swaddle, depends)
7pm Night routine (massage, stories, Breast Feed, swaddle, kiss goodnight and say the same things every night "mommy and dad love you, etc. etc.)
7:30 Asleep (then she wakes usually at 1130/12am and 330am)

However, last night and almost all last week, after her first wake up at 1130pm/12am - she wakes a TON (145am, 230am, 330am (then I feed), 4am, 445am, 515am and on and on....). She does not seem hungry when she wakes, she seems often that she is not liking her swaddle (if she has not escaped it which often she has. Usually I can rock her/comfort her/put binky in and she will go back to sleep, but then is up again in no time. I had thought perhaps no swaddle and no binky training so she could soothe herself, but she really cannot sleep that way - she cries and cries and I just cannot let her do that. Lately I take her to the guest room around 5pm for a 1-2 more hours sleep.

She has not rolled over yet and in my parent group someone suggested she may be ready for that milestone and that is why this is happening, but I am not so sure.

OOHHH and I need to note: she only eats for TEN MINUTES! Yes TEN! I try to keep her focused, we eat in the same room/place each time but she pulls off and is NOT interested in more. She cries if I try to get her back on and seems content/fine until her next feeding. In fact, most often she does not get super fussy to eat - just when tired.

Thoughts?
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Re: Night wakings and feeding times - help!
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2007, 18:17:29 pm »
You might want to try to do one arm out, or both arms out, but keep her feet in for bedtime.  If she doesn't want the swaddle, she doesn't want it.  My LO started doing that around 5.5 mo and we ended up just leaving his arms out, and he started sleeping better immediately (but we let him have the binky).  At some point LOs just decide that they don't want swaddling anymore.  Also if your LO only eats for 10 min and doesn't seem interested anymore--you might want to lengthen the times between feeds. Try 3.5 hours or work your way up to every 4.  Again my LO started that and he just wasn't hungry that quickly anymore. HTH
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Re: Night wakings and feeding times - help!
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2007, 18:37:53 pm »
Ok that sounds good. She already is at every 4 hours so will extend that out - working out that way already today since she last ate at 705am and it is now 1145am and she is still napping. The doc's triage nurse today told me since she is 4 months to start the Ferber method and let her arms out of the swaddle, swaddle legs and no binky if possible (she always pulls it out of her mouth anyway). I am not looking forward to starting that tonight...aggg.

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Re: Night wakings and feeding times - help!
« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2007, 01:14:14 am »
Hi,
I think it is also possible that your little one is overtired. I don't think she is getting the amount of daytime sleep she needs in order to properly sleep at night.
Have you tried to extend her naps at all?  She probably should be getting 3, 1.5 hour naps in order to stay rested. Also at her age she should still be eating every 4 hours.  I wouldn't let her go much longer than that or her wakes could be due to hunger.

I also wanted to say that this site is dedicated to the work of Tracy Hogg who felt very strongly against the CIO or CC methods of sleep training.  I understand that your doctor advised you to go that route but it sounds as if it is something you don't really want to do.  I would urge you to have a look around the site and pick up a copy of Tracy's book. There are gentler ways to sleep train. 

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Re: Night wakings and feeding times - help!
« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2007, 01:22:53 am »
I have to agree with Myia, it really looks like from your schedule that she needs more daytime sleep. Her eating seems fine, but work on getting her to sleep more during the day and her night time sleep should adjust.

Good Luck!

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