XP: Sleep ?

BoilerUp1

DS nurses every 2 hours around the clock.  I keep going back and forth with myself about this.  Do I continue to feed him at night in these intervals or am I causing him to lose sleep by "perpetuating this habit."  I feel guilty either way.  Guilty for feeding him if it is making him a poor sleeper, guilty for not feeding him if he is truly hungry.  At what point do you try to make them go longer intervals at night? Pedi says that at 4 months they should be able to go 7-8 hours without a feed and to let him CIO (which I won't do that... I would soothe him in some way) and not feed him.  I just feel so conflicted.

Kaeldrasmommy

I would just nurse at that age. My LO is 7 months and still wakes constantly. I tried to just pat, cuddle, sing, whatever and it only made it worse.

SandiaPinaMama

I would feed your kid.  DS didn't start truly sleeping through the night until closer to 8 months when I did a modified version of Sleep Lady Shuffle.  Your LO will start sleeping longer, but for right now, this is what he needs.  I read once, during a MOTN feeding, that you have to parent your child to sleep.  It resounded with me.  I think some parents don't want to parent at night, but the fact is that we are parents 24-7, ya know? 

I promise it does get better, you will get more sleep, your LO will get more sleep, and one day, you will be responding to a similar post saying similar things. 

catahoulatte

yeah, I would just feed him. DS didn't start STTN consistently until last month. When he'd wake up, I'd go in, try and soothe him, and if he wasn't hungry he'd calm down and go to sleep. If he was, he'd continue crying and I'd feed him.

I never did sleep training of any sort. it kinda sucked but he is able to sleep from 9-6:30/7 on his own now and I didn't go through the torture of hearing him cry for extended periods of time. 

Sleep training works for a lot of people, and they seem to love it. It's not for me but that doesn't mean it couldn't work well for others. I'd side-eye a pedi recommending it at 4 month old, though.

jolynn326

I nursed on cue at night until, well, two nights ago when we started Dr. Jay Gordon's night weaning plan.