It allows for you to feed baby quickly and easily when
baby wakes at night and you don't have to get up completely to go to baby's room.
A couple of days after we got home, two of our younger children started displaying the classic symptoms of ear infection and
waking at night with ear pain.
Babies of this age are supposed to
wake at night for feeds - no matter what well - meaning family and friends might tell you.
While it may be frustrating when your baby
starts waking at night, it's important to try to remember it's most likely only a temporary phase.
I want to warn you, though, that sometimes not breastfeeding at night might not mean
not waking at night.
After this course your baby will go to sleep on their own,
stop waking at night, nap more, be less fussy, and stop fighting sleep.
The definition of sleep regression includes the regular
waking at night as well as their inability to fall asleep easily.
Similarly when my children
woke at night breastfeeding was by far the quickest and easiest way to get them back to sleep and resulted in more sleep for us all.
Whenever my
son woke at night, it was practically impossible for me to process and figure out the appropriate response based on whatever method we were currently employing.
Many babies do go through a phase where they sleep for longer periods of time only to
begin waking at night during different developmental stages.
Some
babies wake at night only out of hunger; for those babies, extra nursing or bottle feeding sessions, or a bit of solid food before bed, will help.
AskDrSears recommends attempting to give your baby a full feeding when he first
wakes at night so that he will sleep longer and not attempt to «nibble» all night long.
Indeed, this study found that it was linked with
frequent waking at night: 42 percent of those who work from home report frequent night waking while only 29 percent of office workers reported the same.
The problem is, it has been about a 70/30 thing where the baby will sleep very well and
then wake at night at which time, we move her sister to the living rm so she can cio.
We had been doing 3.5 schedule, then it went down to 3 when I realized she needed an extra feeding, and now
shes waking at night once AND feeding every 1.5 - 2 hours during the day.
So when they
do wake at night i give them a bottle and if i try not giving them a bottle its a screaming fest and what little sleep i'd get is gone.
In addition to having difficulty getting comfortable enough to fall asleep, your baby's sleeping patterns might be completely disrupted due to
increased wakings at night.
Before we met, Chaya would
wake at night nearly every hour and wouldn't fall back asleep unless she was nursed and rocked and her naps were a complete mess.
This advice is often passed on to parents who are frequently
woken at night by a crying baby.
One friend told me her husband returned to work and they came to agreement that he would
only wake at night on the weekends — she found herself dangerously exhausted within weeks of this «arrangement» taking hold.
Wake Your Baby — This advice may shock you, but if you have a child who no
longer wakes at night, you may want to consider waking him when it's time to administer a second dose of pain reliever.