hi ladies,
we sleep trained with shush pat when LO was 5.5 months old. It went really well and DD would only wake then every 3-5 hrs to feed. a few weeks ago we were struggling with 1 long NW per night and we got this sorted by making sure she has a long enough day, she only does 11 hrs at night and if her day is too short we figured that she has a nasty long NW. so this has been sorted. but over the last few nights she continues to wake often again, she is easy enough to settle, like 5-10 mins but either way Im awake and very tired as a result. sometimes she settles herself. she still gets a DF around 9.30pm, which is 2.5 hrs after her BT feed. very often she wakes for her first feed 2.5 hrs after the DF which makes me think she has internalised that she gets fed every 2.5 hrs. one day she didn't take the DF and slept for 8 hrs. I gave her a feed then because my breasts were very full. so could it be that the DF is disturbing her sleep at this stage? here is a typical day:
wake up 7am
1st nap 10.30-12.10
2nd nap 15.30-16.15
BT 7.25
any other ideas why she wakes that often? I must also mention, sometimes I go ahead and feed her straight away instead of settling her, even when it hasn't been 3 hrs yet since the last feed...