can i join the club too???? yaaaaaaawn...............................
ruben was pretty good for a while after i started him on the gina ford contented little baby routine at 5 weeks. he'd go to bed at 7pm then i'd wake him for a feed and nappy change at 10-10.30. then he'd sleep from 11pm until 3-4am, have a quiet night time feed and then sleep till i woke him at 7-7.15am.
but in the last week he has started waking frequently again... he'll still go down well at 7 and sleep till 10, which is naice as i have my evenings "free" to do other things or relax. after his late evening feed he'll go to sleep ok at 11pm, but then wake frequently wanting food but i can't get him awake enough to take a proper feed to make him last longer! last night he woke at 1.30am, 3am, 4am 5.30am and on and off too many times for me to remember (i must have been sleepwalking over to him to get him settled!) between then and 7 when i got up feeling like a zombie. he on the other hand was very awake and babbling happily away once i'd picked him up and was changing his nappy!
i have tried giving him a top up of formula after the breast at the 10.30 feed but it doesn't seem to make a difference. i also make sure he sleeps according to the routine so he doesn't sleep too much during the day. this worked a treat before, and he was nicely tired but not overtired after his bath.
i'm persevering with the routine though, just feeding more often in the day to see if i can get him to take most of his daily nutritional needs between 7am and 11pm. i think either he's having an extra long growth spurt
or my milk supply is not enough (i think it may have dropped a little during a terrible cold both ruben and i suffered from a couple of weeks back). i have invested in an electric breast pump and am trying to express to increase my supply!
he's a "textbook baby" during the day, but i wish he could go back to his nice little routine he was in before!