i’m over night waking!!

I'm OVER it! Ds2 is 6 months tomorrow and is waking anywhere from 3 -5 times per night to feed.
I breastfeed. He can sleep from 7pm till 5am and i feed him then. BUT that was only on night, he has been too much waking up!

So here's his night routine same everynight:
6 .15pm Bath
6.30pm last night feed lasts half an hour , has both sides plus a top up of between 100- 200mls of formula what ever he takes.
7pm in bed usually asleep soon after. Self settles or though sometimes has dummy.That i take out onces he's asleep.
10.30pm or 11pm wakes to feed, feeds for half an hour.
2pm wakes to feed, change nappy
4pm or 4.30pm wakes to feed
sometimes wakes at 5.30 or 6am to feed.
up about 7.30 for the day.

his night wake ups do vary slightly.

What i have tried:

dreamfeed at 10.00 or 10.30 Dh does this bottle of formula. Worked for a short while but then he started waking at 1am to feed and every 2 hours after that. So stopped this.

I don't use the dummy to settle in the middle of the night and if i don't feed him he screams and screams! Have left him to scream but has a three year old who wakes up, plus he still needs 1 night feed a this age but WHEN????

Dh going in to settle him, Ds2 screams even more.

feeding him twice only, at 10.30pm and 4am but he still wakes as he doesn't know when i will feed him, of course!


HElP don't know what to do.
He doesn't need to feed 3-5 times a night!
Any suggestions???????????/

Is he a big bub or little bub??

We still had 2 hourly waking right up til 1 year. I knew he shouldn't...he could have other issues going on? Turns out for us it was silent reflux.

Is he on solids during the day?

What happens if you don't wake him for his dream feed?

Can you remember what you did differently that day that he slept through?

how do you know he doesnt need to feed that many times a night. it is quite normal for a 6 mth old to wake during the night.

can you try feeding him more during the day? sounds like a lot of feeding at night, i guess all babies are different but you need your sleep too!

big hugs. we just got dd to sleep through. not sure what did it in the end, hubby just started going in, made sure nappy was clean, and gave her some water incase she was thirsty and a cuddle. I also made sure she fed loads during the day, bf. also we started solids which seems to have helped too. sorry not much help!

disco

Hi all thanks for your advice

AandCsmum- he is a big boy around 9 plus kgs,
he is on solids started at 5.5 months, has some after lunchtime BF.

I Bf every 2 hours during the day, or on demand. He constantly feeds. Which is o.k and what he's suppose to do during the day!

if we don't dreamfeed him he still wakes up and 2 hours later.

Bizzy- I know that at 6 months he still needs night feeding and am happy to do 2 feeds max. But not 5 feeds! I did feed my DS1 every 2 - 3 hours right up until 9 months when we cut all night feeds, as i was returning to work full time and needed sleep!.Plus only had him.... things change when there is another child to think of!


This time however have a three year old, who i need to be awake for during the day so can't nap when DS2 does.

I think it's comfort, more than hunger. But how do you stop feeding??? It's also the lenght of the feeding 30 -40 mins longer if i allow!!!!!

i would suggest you make sure he isnt too cold/warm as well. i know that sometimes with eden a quick cuddle was all that was needed - not all the time unfortunately. Or he might just need a bum change. one of my kids - cant remember which at the mo tho - used to hate being wet so would get cranky till changed, even if the middle of the night. also does he sleep in your room? maybe you are too noisy for him?

One of the girls in our antenatal class did the same thing with shortening feeds like esmesmum. Maybe chop it to 25 mins per feed for a few nights then drop to 20, 15 etc.. and see what happens?

Also, do you wait a little while before going to him? Sometimes I find by the time I go to the kitchen and heat up a bottle etc and get to his room (which isn't really that long) he's actually fallen back to sleep!

Aww, hope he settles down soon for you I do know how tiring it is though - my DD stopped BFing at 13months (2months ago) but STILL wakes in the night! Only now I can't feed her so try all the other methods to get her to sleep but we're often up for 1-3hrs in a row, then up for the day at 4:30am

I'm sure my answer doesn't help you in the slightest, sorry, just wanted to say I know how you feel...

Hugs, I know night waking is hard. My nights are a blur. I don't get up at the moment as I'm just too tired, DH brings C into me so I have no idea of the time!

So he's on one solids a day? Maybe introduce another solids meal & see if that helps?

Other than that, I guess get a really good coffee to wake you up in the morning.

Thanks guys

Last night he was up 7 times!! between 7pm and 6am. DH was excellent, i managed to only feed 4 times and did reduce the amount to around 30 mins each time. But the 1am wake up was longer as i fell aslepp in the chair feeding up and woke at 2.10am! so he had a big feed!

i think he's teething. Have given teethmed spray today so hopefully that helps, also have added another meal so he now has lunch and dinner so that may help too.

thanks for all the support it's good to know others are going through it too