BallerinaM2B
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Is it just me? I always come away feeling like I'm failing! Other mums talk about feeds at set times and how baby only wakes up once now at night and blah blah blah and I can't help but think I'm doing something wrong!
We have a bedtime routine which starts around 6.30pm but other than that we have no routine, I feed LO when he's hungry and put him down for a nap when he shows signs of being tired (when I say put down, I mean nurse to sleep). Sometimes LO will sleep 5 hours when I put him down at night, sometimes he'll wake every 2 hours, every night seems to be different but I nearly always nurse him when he wakes up, usually because it's the only thing that will settle him. When he wakes after 1am he's normally very hard to settle so we co-sleep and then the morning starts when LO looks awake enough, sometimes 8am, sometimes 9.30am.
I've tried nudging him towards a routine but he ended up grumpy, tired and so did I! I'm doubting my instincts which are telling me to carry on as I am but it's difficult when your gut feelings differ from every bit of advice you're given and everyone else seems to be so much more sorted by taking a different approach to you.
My LO is 7 months and other than the frequent wakings he's an absolute delight.
Sorry for the long post!! Feel better for getting that off my chest! Please post if you can related, I could do with some solidarity right now
We have a bedtime routine which starts around 6.30pm but other than that we have no routine, I feed LO when he's hungry and put him down for a nap when he shows signs of being tired (when I say put down, I mean nurse to sleep). Sometimes LO will sleep 5 hours when I put him down at night, sometimes he'll wake every 2 hours, every night seems to be different but I nearly always nurse him when he wakes up, usually because it's the only thing that will settle him. When he wakes after 1am he's normally very hard to settle so we co-sleep and then the morning starts when LO looks awake enough, sometimes 8am, sometimes 9.30am.
I've tried nudging him towards a routine but he ended up grumpy, tired and so did I! I'm doubting my instincts which are telling me to carry on as I am but it's difficult when your gut feelings differ from every bit of advice you're given and everyone else seems to be so much more sorted by taking a different approach to you.
My LO is 7 months and other than the frequent wakings he's an absolute delight.
Sorry for the long post!! Feel better for getting that off my chest! Please post if you can related, I could do with some solidarity right now