Maybe the mom isn't going to sleep much at night, maybe instead she will
sleep after nursing the baby at home, wake for a few hours after dad / partner has given baby his bath, washed bottles and pump parts and prepared everything for the next day (I think babies love to be worn and talked to when someone is preparing their bottles and pump parts!)
I watched my son fall back to
sleep after nursing ambitiously, like normal.
in that time when they didn't go back to
sleep after nursing, i brought my husband into it.
You may have to rock to
sleep after nursing instead of nursing in the bed, or change some other element, but you'll have the most success if you can keep your routine as similar to the old one as possible.
He also seems to like vibration like Annabelle did, but not so much swinging in the swing.We had a couple of rough nights that first week, with him feeding every couple hours and / or being awake and hard to get back to sleep (so I was only getting an hour of sleep here and there) but the last several nights, he's given me one 3 - hour stretch of sleep and gone right back to
sleep after nursing.
My 4 month old is waking at midnight which is his normal waketime in Germany (7 am) and then goes back to bed if I nurse him until around 3:30 am and then back to
sleep after nursing and then wakes again at 5 am.
Studies have shown that drinking more than 750 mg of caffeine per day (or about three 8 - ounce cups of brewed coffee) may cause babies to become irritable, fussy, cranky, or unable to
sleep after a nursing session.
(She does sleep through occasionally in cluster of 3 or 4 nights but it's been over 2 weeks now since she has...) I don't mind feeding her as I don't work now and she goes right to
sleep after nursing for 15 minutes... but all I hear «out there» is I MUST reduce her night feeds so I feel very intense external pressure.
You can latch the baby on and fall asleep (the nursing hormones will probably put you to sleep anyway if you're lying down), then sleep while the baby nurses, and if the baby
sleeps after nursing you get that time to nap, too.
We have to rub her back and sing to her for a half hour to get her to relax enough to go to sleep at night, but she goes right back to
sleep after she nurses in the night.
Not exact matches
And right
after having a baby, one's focus should be bonding,
nursing,
sleeping, trying to figure out who the baby looks like, eating well, and healing — not on how soon one can fit into pre-pregnancy jeans or appear on a D - list celebrity rag in a bikini.
He
slept for the majority of the flight in my husband's arms
after a good
nursing session during take - off.
After nursing, she normally rolls over, snuggles with her father and goes back to
sleep until around 8 am.
but we rocked him to
sleep in the chair by his bed for another almost 5 months and then he got so big he didn't care to so we put him in his crib
after a
nursing session and lay next to crib (one of us, likely my hubby) until he falls asleep.
Getting help from a postpartum doula (a woman trained to care for mother and baby during the first couple of weeks
after delivery) or baby
nurse (a newborn care expert) during the day can let you catch up on much - needed rest and
sleep.
I will
nurse her to
sleep, like I did with our first, and she will go down, but sometimes she wakes
after 20 mins, sometimes
after an hour, and sometimes not at all.
That means I have to get right into bed
after nursing in order to try to get my 8 hours of
sleep before my milk supply wakes me up:) Thanks!
In no time, you and your little one should both be able to get back to
sleep easier
after your nightly
nursing.
She wakes only once
after 7 hours to
nurse and
sleeps generally for 12 hours at night.
See also: Nighttime
Sleep Issues: http://babywisemom.blogspot.com/2008/01/nightime-
sleep-issues.html For the breastfeeding, are you
nursing before you feed solids or
after?
After all, calls about
sleep problems are the No. 1 question that parents ask the
nurses who answer the hospital's answer line.
The rest of the night he wakes sometimes as often as every two hours looking for help back to
sleep... When he was younger I would put in the effort to rock him instead of
nursing but
after 14 months of
sleep deprivation I do what's easiest and allows me to stay in a sleepy state.
Always take any type of medication immediately
after nursing and / or before a long stretch of
sleep, if possible.
Within a few painful nights of this, we determined we needed to quickly eliminate
nursing after first going to
sleep at night and not
nurse again until morning.
I often put Elliot in the
sleep sack
after he's done
nursing and asleep and it's so easy to transition him in the
sleep sack if I just lay him in the crib over the
sleep sack.
The key to preventing engorgement is to
nurse frequently and unrestrictedly
after birth; i.e., every 2 - 3 hours with one longer
sleep span in a 24 - hour period even if waking the baby is necessary to do so.
Sleeping when baby
sleeps, don't be daft, still have to hook up to a pump
after the rugby match that passes for
nursing, and then still bottle feeding, and just hope it actually helps your production even though you're barely getting enough to get the shield wet.
After nursing, it also allows mom to return baby to his separate
sleep area without requiring her to get out of bed.
Thank you, Jessica - I need networks like this - I don't have friends with kids - and the ones I do know are too busy like me - so at 3, 4, 5, and every hour
after or
nursing when my baby wouldn't
sleep - this saved me!
My daughter started (or continued) to wake when she needed to pee / feed, but as I did not change her like I used to, she would fall asleep
nursing and wake
after every
sleep cycle, feeling discomfort.
Perhaps your first child
nursed around the clock for months, while your second
slept for long stretches
after a few weeks.
When I first had my baby I stocked up on a bunch of
nursing bras and tops but
after nursing for a few months I ended up just using the bras and saving the tops for either
sleeping or days when I just didn't want to leave the house.
I live in Holland, the
nurse that was taking care of me and my baby few days
after she was born, warned me that
sleeping together is dangerous.
At the beginning of the night, when he falls asleep
after rocking /
nursing, we place him in his crib where he usually
sleeps several hours happily.
I was told by a lactation consultant that oxytocin would help me get back to
sleep after nighttime
nursing.
He almost always
nurses himself back to
sleep but the past couple of days, he's sometimes alert
after nursing so then we let the girls hold him or give him a bath, and then swaddle and rock / bounce him to
sleep.
He usually only likes to
nurse in the mornings when he wakes, or
after breakfast, and at night before going to
sleep.
I know it's controversial, but
after trying many different more gentle ways to gradually stop
nursing my son to
sleep, I finally just let him «cry it out» and it was the best thing for everyone.
If your child is still waking for a night
nursing session
after a week or two of
sleep training, he may need more time before he is able to
sleep through the night.
During the day, he
sleeps like a champ and I sometimes have to wake him up to
nurse after it's been 3 hours.
i plan on letting him with me until he begins
sleeping the night through without waking up to
nurse, or until he happily
sleeps in his crib alone:) i
sleep more soundly having him near me, knowing hes safe, esp
after whats going on with the missing girl from tucson who was taken from her bedroom at night.
«My son is 13 mo and we've finally,
after much time and effort — but not including CIO — gotten him into a decent
sleeping pattern; he goes to bed between 7 and 7:30 p.m. and usually
sleeps through until 4ish, when he
nurses for 15 - 20 min and then goes back to
sleep until about 7 a.m..
After 3 weeks, we were able to wean from the nipple shield and by 4 weeks he was a great nurser (
nursed literally every hour during the day time hours) and a great sleeper (was
sleeping 8 PM to 4 AM by the time he was 4 - 5 weeks old — NOTE: this amount of
sleep for a baby this young is NOT typical — I was SUPER lucky).
In the early days, my husband brought baby to me in bed (from the bassinet in our room), and changed her diaper
after each night feeding so I could go back to
sleep right
after nursing her down.
After I accepted that my daughter just was not a child who was going to
sleep for long stretches at night (she will be two soon and still wakes to
nurse every two or three hours), it stopped bothering me, and now I, too, take those quiet moments to breathe in her baby hair smell and listen to her small sleepy sounds.
Annabelle
nurses through her teething pain, and
after a few hours, non-stop breastfeeding is uncomfortable for me, not to mention difficult to
sleep through.
Your day is busy running
after a toddler and holding an infant so it means you're
sleeping for 6 hours instead of 3 by
nursing in bed, do it!
Moms who can breastfeed or cuddle their babies immediately
after birth have greater
nursing success — and even have less stressed babies who
sleep and feed better.
But if a mom's feel engorged most the time,
after the baby is a couple of months old rather than just feeling engorged when her baby hasn't
nursed for a while so it's when babies starts to
sleep longer at night.
I suppose this is different for all new moms (which is a piece of advice unto itself), but I wish I had bought the bare minimum of
nursing bras (or
nursing tanks /
sleeping bras) and then stocked up a few weeks
after birth.