Sleeping Through the Night- Baby Sleep Blog » night waking; night time feeds

Sleeping through the night…the follow up

Farrah — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:39:22 +0000

I have to say, since my last post, I’ve been getting about 8 to 9 hours of sleep each night. What a blessing! Especially consdering we’ve been traveling since last month and have gone through 4 time zones (India, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Dallas). The little one has adapted wonderfully and gotten used to day and night across the globe, no problem.

Rich’s advice of calorie shifting was great. That coupled with my mom’s advice of 6-10-2-6-10 nursing cinched the deal. Basically, not just did work with the little one to shift their feeding times to days, I also nursed him at 4 hour intervals starting at 6am with the last feeding being at 10pm.

This has worked wonders! In between nursings, Aidan gets his fill of solids so I know he’s got a belly full.

Ah, a full night’s sleep. No replacement for that!

Sleeping through the night…1st night

Farrah — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:35:25 +0000

I was determined last night to try out the advice from Rich’s article on reducing night-time feeds. At 10:30pm sharp, Aidan had his last feed for the night and went to sleep without a fuss. At 1:17am, the l’ll guy woke up. I sent the hubby in for a quick diaper change and a reassuring pat. Aaah, back to sleep. 3:54am, awake again. Another diaper change, and time for some nursing (usually Aidan wakes up for a feed at around 2:30am). Quick feeding, and back to sleep. 7:04am, awake once again (sigh), another feeding and diaper change. Aidan’s in the mood to play, so he hangs out on our bed between the hubby and me, explores around, sees us asleep and curls up near my knees and passes out.

9:14am, Aidan’s still asleep. Ah, finally. He actually slept in (wow, this rarely happens)

We’ll be trying this again tonight to see if we can prolong the first night time feed to a decent hour