{"id":2847,"date":"2014-01-17T08:08:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T13:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=2847"},"modified":"2014-01-17T08:08:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T13:08:06","slug":"finished-with-night-feeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/17\/finished-with-night-feeding\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished with Night Feeding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago (before Christmas) this happened: Doodle woke up at 3:13.\u00a0 Hubby went in to put him back to sleep.\u00a0 Hubby came back frustrated at 3:35ish.\u00a0 I went in to put him back to sleep.\u00a0 I changed his diaper, swaddled, rocked in his chair, sang, bounced, patted his back, rubbed his back, gently stroked his face, rocked him in bed, did everything I could\u00a0 think of EXPECT feeding\u2026at 4:47 I was back in bed, Doodle was asleep.\u00a0 And I decided we were done with night feeding.\u00a0 He was sleeping through the night before Thanksgiving, he surely can be now too!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC09680-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/>It is typical for babies to start having more trouble sleeping at night when they are working on a new skill such as sitting up, crawling and standing. \u00a0Well, that&#8217;s where we&#8217;ve been! \u00a0Doodle started crawling January 1 and is now pulling to stand in his bed when he doesn&#8217;t want to sleep so this probably accounts for \u00a0a lot of the sleeping trouble we were having.<\/p>\n<p>The first week of my no-feeding regimen wasn\u2019t too bad as we adjusted to the new routine:<\/p>\n<p>Night 1: Doodle is up at 12:43.\u00a0 I go in, wrap him up tell him \u201cIt\u2019s still sleeping time, night-night Doodle\u201d and turn on his light and sound machine (which I use at nap time).\u00a0 I camp out on the couch until he\u2019s quiet.\u00a0 12 minutes later I\u2019m back in bed and Doodle is asleep.\u00a0 Doodle sleeps until 6:00, I get up, turn on the lights and feed him.<\/p>\n<p>Night 2: Doodle is up at 1:37.\u00a0 \u00a0I go in, wrap him up tell him \u201cIt\u2019s still sleeping time, night-night Doodle\u201d and turn on his lights and sounds.\u00a0 I camp out on the couch while he screams.\u00a0 20 minutes later hubby goes in and helps Doodle fall back asleep.\u00a0 Doodle sleeps until 6:00, I get up, turn on the lights and feed him.<\/p>\n<p>Night 3: Doodle sleeps until 6:00, I get up, turn on the lights and feed him.<\/p>\n<p>Night 4: Doodle is up at 3:13.\u00a0\u00a0 I go in, wrap him up tell him \u201cIt\u2019s still sleeping time, night-night Doodle\u201d and turn on his lights and sounds.\u00a0 I camp out on the couch while he screams for a few minutes.\u00a0 The cat gets hungry and the crunching catches Doodles attention and he stops crying.\u00a0 10 minutes of quiet and I go back to bed.\u00a0 15 minutes later, Doodle is up again.\u00a0 Hubby goes in and helps Doodle fall back asleep.\u00a0 Doodle sleeps until 6:00, I get up, turn on the lights and feed him.<\/p>\n<p>Night 5: Doodle sleeps until 5:30, I get up, turn on the lights and feed him and let him play.\u00a0 By 6:30 he is a raging lunatic so I lay him back down for a nap.<\/p>\n<p>Night 6: Doodle sleeps until 5:11, I get up, turn on the lights and feed him and let him play.\u00a0 By 6:00 he is a raging lunatic so I lay him back down for a nap.<\/p>\n<p>Night 7: Doodle sleeps until 6:00, I get up, turn on the lights and feed him.<\/p>\n<p>Then something happened: Doodle started waking up at 4:15, 4:45, 3:55!\u00a0 I would go in, half-zombie like, turn on the lights, feed him, try to force him to play, put him back to bed and I would try to go to bed.\u00a0 About a week of this nonsense and I realized something: he was sleeping 8-9 hours at a time but the problem was he was going to bed around 8 so I started trying to keep him up longer.\u00a0 Then he started making it until 5:30 or 6 for about a week and then, just today we made it to 7:15! \u00a0Of course I was still up at 6:30 with the girls, but, 7:15 !\u00a0 So here\u2019s to hoping we turned the corner and 7:15 remains the norm rather than 3:55!<span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.7;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.7;\">Here\u2019s the hard fast rules I put in place when I decided no more night-feeding:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If I was not ready to be up for the day, baby did not get to eat.\u00a0 I would do everything else to get him back to sleep but not feed unless I was committed to be done sleeping myself.<\/li>\n<li>When I did decide it was time to be up, I would try to make sure Doodle understood it was wake-up time.\u00a0 I would turn on the lights, talk to him to keep him awake while he fed and then make him play.<\/li>\n<li>If I put him back down for a \u201cnap\u201d after feeding and playing, I would leave a soft light on if it was still dark out to try to help his body understand it was a nap, not a long sleep.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I can\u2019t say for sure these things helped (or didn\u2019t help seeing as we regressed quite a bit at one point) but the logic seems to work and we\u2019ll continue on this path until we\u2019re in a sleep pattern that suits us!<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any tips for helping baby sleep better at night?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago (before Christmas) this happened: Doodle woke up at 3:13.\u00a0 Hubby went in to put him back to sleep.\u00a0 Hubby came back frustrated at 3:35ish.\u00a0 I went in to put him back to sleep.\u00a0 I changed his diaper, swaddled, rocked in his chair, sang, bounced, patted his back, rubbed his back, gently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-business","category-breastfeeding","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2849,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions\/2849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}