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Also the nurse said not to worry and that it will get better. And to stop watching tiktok videos coz them babies who sleep all night are rare cases🤣
This is really reassuring and helpful thank you! I have the same thing where I’m literally just a human dummy…I’ve not tried expressing yet or giving bottle of expressed milk and wondering if this would help but no idea how to start / how much to express & give / what time of day to express and how etc etc! I think I’d like to mainly breastfeed and maybe give a bottle before bed but we’ll see!
I have 2 kids both EBF, they are completely different when it comes to sleep, so I'd say at least 50% is luck. My first wakes every 2-3hr, max he can go was 4hr and that was rare. He was rocked to sleep until we worked on his self settling after 4 months old. I followed the wake window, had a nap time schedule etc. My second has been sleeping through the nights (with feeding in between) since birth and is now able to give me 8hr+ stretch before needing a feed, not every night but it's quite regular. Up until now he has no set timing to sleep, not following the wake window but is within the age recommendations. He is fed to sleep. The same thing I do for both of them is dark room, white noise. Also, I have more milk with my second child but I had also tried with my first to give him a big bottle before sleep but he still woke every couple hours, so 🤷 The believe is to make sure they aren't overtired/undertired before bedtime, and having most of their calories during the day.
I’ve been doing everything exactly the same with my second, every trick in the book, but she just sleeps way worse than my first 🤷♀️
Currently in the same situation. I actually asked the nurse about this today when he went for his second dose of vaccines and she said most breastfed babies feed so they have enough milk for the moment that’s why they wake up constantly. My baby does the same thing he only falls asleep on the boob and as soon as I put him down he wakes up. Best thing that works for me is I feed him laying down next to me then transfer him in the bedside crib. I saw a tiktok video that for babies to sleep through the night they should get between 750-920ml milk in the daytime and that will fill them up for the nighttime. I ordered a breast pump waiting for it to come and I will start giving him 150ml of expressed milk in bottles for every feed of the day to see if it works that way. Sometimes he has nights when he wakes up every hour and wants to be on the boob but not even feeding. He’s just treating the nipple as a dummy. Just a comfort thing.