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el_twirpo
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****chargermama and others dealing with 4MW***
el_twirpo
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how's it going for you? any light at the end of the tunnel?
DS is consistently waking up at 11pm, 3am and 6am. sometimes he wants to play at 3, which means we're trying to get him to go back to sleep for another hour.
i can't for the life of me get him to eat a full meal day or night. seems he just wants to "snack" from me. the only time he's consistently eating fully is right before he goes to bed around 8 and the 11 pm feeding.
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Re: ****chargermama and others dealing with 4MW***
I think we are still dealing with the 4MW. I say that because he was sleeping so great and then at 4 1/2 months it all went to complete shiit, and unfortunately it is still there. I hate to tell you that I have the same thing going on as you - he has always been a snacker and will only eat a "full meal" right before bed and when he wakes at night. I have noticed the last two nights that he hasn't really eaten when he wakes up in the 11 o'clock hour though, so maybe that is progress. I need to try and just get him down without feeding him, but I'm scared that it will take forever so I'm waiting until Friday.
Yesterday I saw two little white buds poking through his bottom gums, so I am telling myself that this 4MW, or whatever it is, is about to get better. With the exception of Saturday - Monday nights, he is waking between 11 and 12, at 2:30, and again at 4:30 or 5. Saturday - Monday he was up all freaking night trying to attach himself to the boob.
How is the bed sharing going? Has your supply gotten better? I hope so! I'm not sure I responded to your bottle update, but I'm so happy that he has gotten over that strike!
we've been bringing him to bed only when he wants to "play". he got pretty pissed at me last night when he couldn't find the boob, but once he found it, he didn't really want to eat. so i popped a pacifier in his mouth so he'd stop biting and scratching me. then, i held him like a straight jacket to calm him down. i'm pretty sure i fell back asleep before he did. :-
i think my supply is back up. i'm still struggling with pumping at work, so i still get a bit of engorgement if i can't get enough out. i'm doing a lot more hand expression just to force SOMETHING out, and trying to pump/feed at the same time in the mornings to take advantage of letdown.
**fingers crossed***
we are on the downslope. dd was not eating enough during the day (too much too look at...). so i started feeding her by myself, in her room with no noise. i knew we couldn't do that forever (dd1 was running crazy downstairs), but i toughed it out for a few weeks and that seemed to help. now i've started feeding her again around noise, etc. so now she has started sleeping better at night.
we are also sleep training, and just like chargermomma said, it hurts, but it is working. i know she isn't hungry, just lonely (yes, it makes my heart ache), but after a few nights, it is getting better.
there is a light at the end of the tunnel!! hang in there!