Sleep after MOTN feedings

[lilouboo2]

I finally made it over from TB - better late than never!

My LO (8.5 weeks) is now sleeping in her crib (hurray!) and will go to bed between 8-9 and sleep until about 2am.  She sleeps great during this time and I feed her when she wakes up around 2am.  After feeding her, however, her sleep is extremely restless with lots of grunting and crying for an hour until she finally settles into deep sleep again.  She will then sleep until about 4:30am after which she will not go back to sleep unless in bed with me.

Does anyone else have this problem that the sleep after the first feeding is never as great as the initial one?  Any suggestions on how to resolve this?  I'm okay with it for now, but really need to not be up for 2 hour stretches in the middle of the night once I go back to work in several weeks.  Thanks for any advice!

[heidih21]

We have the same problem. We are in bed by 11 and up around 4 and I'm lucky if he sleeps 30 minutes. After my husband gets up at 6:30 (if I got lucky and he was sleeping his alarm wakes lo) I bring him in bed with me and we get a few more hours of sleep. So I have no adive. This has been my hold up on moving him into his crib but I think I'm still going to try anyway. He is 7.5 weeks

[ashlantic]

No advice, we've been having the same problem over here for the past couple of nights too. My lo is almost 6 weeks and sleeps exactly like yours. DH and I have been taking turns settling him and drinking ALL the coffee in the morning. It can't last forever, right?

[3littleones]

LO is this way but with him being in the cosleeper I have mastered putting his nuk back in his mouth while sleeping he's still up 2-3 times a night. He's 2 months 1 month adjusted age. So I am in no rush to move him.

[mapetitefamille]

We have the same problem. We basically have to soothe her until she's in deep sleep before putting her back down. White noise is a little bit helpful, but it still happens more often than not. I wish I knew how to solve it, but I have no idea.

[mamakofoshi]

Feb 25, 2015 14:04:20 GMT -5 3littleones said:

LO is this way but with him being in the cosleeper I have mastered putting his nuk back in his mouth while sleeping he's still up 2-3 times a night. He's 2 months 1 month adjusted age. So I am in no rush to move him.

My DS is the same way waking up 3 times during the night. During the day nap independently is a challenge as well unless you are holding him. I am so jealous of others that their LO already has schedule.

[grumpycat88]

I have no advice. We are dealing with this too. The dictator is 7 weeks, 5 weeks adjusted.

[grommom]

Is lo falling asleep at the breast without eating enough? If so you can try breast compressions to keep them drinking and not just suckling in their sleep, if they've drained both of your breasts and are still awake I'm not sure but my theory is a hungry baby doesn't sleep as long as a full one.

[edvent]

Things that have helped my LOs go back to sleep are keeping the lights down, keeping them swaddled and no interaction during the feeding. I don't even change him unless he's poopy. This LO goes right back to sleep but with DD it was a struggle. With her I'd also throw a heating pad in her bed while I was feeding so the bed would be warm when I'd put her back down (take heating pad back out before putting baby down obviously). I think it's pretty common at this age to have the best sleep for the first stretch. If none of that works just know they do grow out of it!

[rodiesmum]

Same here. What i do is i try to let out a burp even if she nursed to sleep. She sleeps better when she burps a lot

[megpie5]

I'm selfishly glad to hear we're all having similar problems. LO is 5 weeks old and sleeps great downstairs with us from 6-9, eats then I put her in her crib and she goes right to sleep until 1am, eats again and back to sleep until 5am. At this point, however she's fussy and tired but won't sleep anywhere but on me until around 7am when she's up for the day. Overall it adds up to a good number of hours, but having it all split up is exhausting.

[edvent]

Also I do a really late bedtime at this age. I let him just kind of nap out with us in the living room until my last feed/pump between 10-11. That way I get the long stretch of sleep (swaddled in his pack n play) from 11 until 4/5ish when I'm sleeping, and then if he only sleeps a few more hours after that it's time to be up. Once he's older and sleeping longer I'll start moving bedtime up, that's what we did with DD.

[raven]

Feb 25, 2015 19:14:23 GMT -5 edvent said:

Also I do a really late bedtime at this age. I let him just kind of nap out with us in the living room until my last feed/pump between 10-11. That way I get the long stretch of sleep (swaddled in his pack n play) from 11 until 4/5ish when I'm sleeping, and then if he only sleeps a few more hours after that it's time to be up. Once he's older and sleeping longer I'll start moving bedtime up, that's what we did with DD.

This makes me feel better. We do a late bedtime as well. She will nap for a couple hours out in the living room with us. When she wakes up (usually around 10), I feed her, then it's off to bed. She will sleep all night, until around 5 am or later.
My issue is at bedtime. One evening, I had a particularly hard time getting her to sleep. She was fussy and just wanted to stay on the boob, so I side lied with her until we both fell asleep. Now she won't go to bed until we perform this routine. She will just fuss and struggle until we lie down together.

[lilouboo2]

Thanks everyone! Good to know I'm not the only one- hopefully she'll grow out of it soon and for now I'll just have to start going to bed when she does to maximize sleep. Hope it regulates soon for everyone else!