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Habitual NWs
« on: December 27, 2011, 16:16:11 pm »
My DS is 4 months and 1 week old. I have been working on numerous sleep issues of his for the past month. I finally got him on a good 4 hour EASY schedule with one morning nap, one afternoon nap and one catnap (on a good day). He used to scream everytime it was time to sleep, and I have gotten us past that now. He was waking like 12x a night, so we cut the pacifier cold turkey. It has been 3 weeks of no pacifier now. He now gets up in between 12-1ish and then at 5am each night and is hard to settle back to sleep. If I feed him a full bottle, he goes back down easier...the past couple of nights I have decided to wean the milk- so I brought it down to 5 ounces, 4 ounces, and now I am on on 3. He was pretty upset lastnight when he only got 3. His Dr. said that at his weight and his age, he should not need to eat at night- for sure not the 12/1ish timeframe. So once I get down to 0 ounces, do I do W2S to try to eliminate this 12/1ish NWing or do I do sh/pat since he is definitely looking for milk at that time since it's pretty habitual? (he has silent reflux and until we got it under control with the right meds I was feeding him A LOT at night so he is definitely waking out of habit and I am afraid after I wean the milk down he will scream and scream.) The 5am waking is tough b/c I don't want him to eat much so that his morning bottle and cereal will be out of wack.

Let me know if you have any suggestions.
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Re: Habitual NWs
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2011, 22:25:42 pm »
Is there a dream feed?
Tracy suggested weaning the DF at 7 months so I wouldn't think it at all unusual for a 4month old to have one night feed.  I didn't wean the DF until more like 8 going on 9 months due to the silent reflux.
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Re: Habitual NWs
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2011, 02:03:31 am »
I used to do the DF, but then he was waking at 2 and 5 with it for some reason. I am scared to try it again in fear that we will go back. You think it's a good idea to try again now that we are on a good schedule and reflux is under control with  meds?
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Re: Habitual NWs
« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2011, 12:16:46 pm »
I would try the DF.
You'd be surprised how many 4month olds (and much older) still get a night feed.  I know a long undisturbed night would be blissful but the reality is if your LO is hungry you need to feed him.
The good thing about the DF is that it follows on from the BT feed at (roughly) a 4hr interval, this means that if LO will take it they go their long night stretch from the DF to morning, meaning you also get a good stretch of sleep.
They don't always take it straight away so you would need to try consistently over several nights.

You might find this useful if you haven't already seen it
http://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=87815.0
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