Hi,
I would really value some advice as I am desperately trying to get my 4 month old to sleep through.
I would describe Max as an angel baby, a very chilled out kinda guy who smiles a lot and loves to laugh. He started sleeping through at 5 weeks despite me feeding him on demand and being very loose with the routine (it was the summer holidays
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But at 3 1/2 months he started waking at 3.30am every night and therafter every hour or so. I have him in a co-sleeper cot and I would breastfeed him then he would doze off.
I am now putting him the EASY routine and have started weaning him as he seems hungry at night. I am also doing shsh pat to get him used to sleeping in his own cot. After a couple of days of resistance when I put him down in his cot, he is now quite happy to go down on his own as long as I haven't missed his cues. I'm doing a dreamfeed arpound 10pm and give him a bottle of formula instead of a breastfeed to break the association of a breastfeed at night to go back to sleep.
We have had one successful night when he drank 6oz at 10pm and settled back until 5.30am (heaven). But the other nights he wakes 2 hourly from midnight. He is in a really deep sleep at 10pm and often I can only get a couple of ounces down him despite persevering for an hour. Also when he wakes he seems really windy and is grunting to push some trumps out. I sometimes have to feed him again, other times he will settle with shush pat but wakes every couple of hours and doesn't seem to be in a deep sleep. In the morning at 7am it's difficult to rouse him and he's sleepy in the morning.
My thoughts are that I change his formula from Cow and Gate to Aptamil to see if that makes any difference, if not then just breastfeed him or give expressed milk at the dreamfeed.
I would be really interested to hear from anyone who has had a similar experience with bottle feeding causing wind. Any solutions or tips gratefully received. Or could it be the solids causing this? Although it doesn't seem to bother him during the day, he's all smiles. Also any tips with the dreamfeed- how do I get him to take more without force-feeding him if he's not hungry, which could be difficult to digest and perhaps causing the wind- it's about getting the balance right, so difficult sometimes!
Thanks in advance ladies
YM xxx
