LO connects sleep cycle with bottle or boob
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If they ever sleep longer than 45 mins then they are able to connect sleep cycles, they maybe just need the comfort. Has this always been the case or got worse?
@CeeCee he wakes up after 2.5 or 3 hours and that’s when the trouble starts
We still feed back to sleep at every wake which can be every 2-3 hours or more often every 90 mins. It’s biologically very normal albeit hard x
During the day sleep cycles tend to be 30/45 minutes long and overnight they are 2/3 hours so it does sound like your little one is waking after each sleep cycle 😞. I would say there is a couple of options. The ones I know of are Stop feeding to sleep partner puts to bed and send in for any wakes overnight. Will be tough if LO isn’t used to partner overnight but will be the quickest to get away from feed to sleep association. Or continue feed to sleep but send partner in for wakes before 12. I’m hoping to do option 1 after the festivities but I did option 2 a while ago and now, generally, baby sleeps from 7 till at least 11 sometimes 12/1 or 2 on a really rare day!
What I will say from experience (I work 3 nights a week until around 3am so large chunk of the night) and when I’m not here to feed baby back to sleep he sleeps far far worse than when I am. So breastfeeding isn’t always the enemy, sometimes it’s a tool to help with a bad sleeper rather than causing the bad sleep x
No suggestion I am afraid:( but I only noticed like last two or three nights that my LO ate and disconnected from my boob ;) then fell asleep on her own 😍