Our dd is waking many times at night at 9 months. we have successfully used the pu/pd method to stop breastfeeding her to sleep but are still having trouble with night wakings. We are still dreamfeeding her since I have gone back to work and we don't think she is getting enough milk during the day but the time between dreamfeeds seems to be getting shorter!!
Here is our schedule.
5:30 wake up -breast feed and lay down to sleep
6:30 wake up
7-7:30 breakfast and breastfeed
Activity
9:00 nap
10:00 wake up
10:30 snack
Activity
12:00 lunch - veggies and cereal and breastfeed
Activity
2:00 nap - if my husband lies down with her she will sleep for 2 hrs. If not then only for 1 hour
3:30 snack and Activity
5:00 Dinner - veggies, cereal and breastfeed
7:00 sleep (goes to sleep very easily)
9:00 wakes up wanting milk
12:30 dreamfeed or wakes up
3:00 dreamfeed or wakes up
I'm worried that if I stop dreamfeeding her she won't be getting enough bm. Thoughts? It would be great to only feed her once a night but I'm not sure when or how to do this so she doesn't expect it at other times. Also, my husband is sleeping on a mattress next to her and when she wakes up and isn't hungry she still needs him to say 'go to sleep'. This was the alternative to bf but I'm afraid we are now creating another bad habit.
Thanks for any thoughts.