At almost 4months still wakeing every 3hours?!

[KlaraC]

Hallo,
first, sorry for my English, I'm not from GB.

My DD is on EASY routine, feed every 3 hours. She weight 6,5kg (i don't know how much in pounds?), its enough,doctor told me, she could sleep 6hours at night, but she is not.
She is awake every 3hours and want be feed. To be honest, she go sleep at 7. - 7.30 and first stretch is 4 hours, than she waking every 3 hours.

I don't know wether she could by on 4 hours routine? I am afraid, she will be hungry in the night?

7.00 wake, breastfeed
7.00-8.30 activity
8.30 - 10.00 sleep (in the pram in the garden)
sometimes she can sleep for 2hours
10.00 breastfeed
10.00- 11.30 activity
11.30 - 13.00 sleep
13.00 breastfeed
13.00-14.30 activity
14.30 - 16.00 sleep
16.00 - breastfeed
16.00- 18.00 we go outside with pram and my first baby)
18.00 she doesn't sleep till 19.30
19.00 or 19.30 feeding in the bed, she falling a sleep in our bed, after hour we moved her to her cot

she is wake up at 23h (11pm) got dream feed
than at 1 am
again at 3 or 4am
again at 7 am....


Could anyone help me, please and tell me, what do I wrong?

thank you very much

K.

[KlaraC]

And one prop we have....
I used to give her breast everytime she would woke up...I know it is terrible, but she was small and i didn't know, if she is hungry, or not.
I did that bed, now i don't know, what to do...to do it well.

[~Sara~]

Hi there! 

It sounds to me like your baby is ready to switch to a 4 hour EASY.  I think what's happening is that her A times aren't long enough and she's making up for that at night.  At her age, most babies are able to stay awake (an A time) for 1h45-2h before they need a nap.  Currently, your daughter is only staying awake for 1h30, so tomorrow, try bumping that first A time up by 5-10 minutes, or if you think she can handle it, the full 15.  It will probably take a couple of days for her to adjust.

Here are some links that have great information on them:
http://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=63161.0
http://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=120362.0

Now, about the feeding to sleep...is that just at night?  If so, try calming her back to sleep without feeding her, especially at that first night waking after the DF.  She's old enough now that she should be able to go at LEAST as long in between feeds at night as she does during the day.  She still might be legitimately hungry at some point during the night, but I wouldn't say at 1.

[KlaraC]

thank you for your reply!!!

[~Sara~]

You're welcome!  Let me know how things go for you   We can always go back and re-evaluate if need be.