My DD has always been a relatively good sleeper, so I feel like a bit of a jerk complaining at this point. But all of a sudden things have gotten really bad around here, and we can't figure out what we're doing wrong.
Typically, it goes like this: I nurse DD to sleep around 10 pm and she goes down more or less easily. Once she's asleep, I can easily lay her in her crib where she'll stay for a few hours. If she wakes before we go to bed, I can usually nurse her for a few minutes and put her back down in the crib. At some point in the early morning hours, she wakes up and I just bring her into bed with us, where she sleeps the rest of the night peacefully, waking a few times to nurse and then fall asleep again, which normally doesn't wake DH and barely wakes me.
For the last week, however, she's seemed sleepy earlier in the evening, so I'm getting her down around 8-9 pm. But after only a few hours, she is waking thoroughly and nursing voraciously, refusing to go back into her crib -- so she comes into bed with us and nurses at approximately 1/2 hour intervals for the rest of the night. Because she's nursing so frequently, she doesn't get the letdown she's accustomed to, and she starts to cry at the breast after only a few seconds, which can escalate to a piercing shriek if the milk doesn't come. Last night, I very nearly hauled her out of bed in the middle of the night to go make her a bottle of cow's milk just to get her back to sleep, because it seemed like she was starving.
Anyone else BTDT and have any advice?
Typically, it goes like this: I nurse DD to sleep around 10 pm and she goes down more or less easily. Once she's asleep, I can easily lay her in her crib where she'll stay for a few hours. If she wakes before we go to bed, I can usually nurse her for a few minutes and put her back down in the crib. At some point in the early morning hours, she wakes up and I just bring her into bed with us, where she sleeps the rest of the night peacefully, waking a few times to nurse and then fall asleep again, which normally doesn't wake DH and barely wakes me.
For the last week, however, she's seemed sleepy earlier in the evening, so I'm getting her down around 8-9 pm. But after only a few hours, she is waking thoroughly and nursing voraciously, refusing to go back into her crib -- so she comes into bed with us and nurses at approximately 1/2 hour intervals for the rest of the night. Because she's nursing so frequently, she doesn't get the letdown she's accustomed to, and she starts to cry at the breast after only a few seconds, which can escalate to a piercing shriek if the milk doesn't come. Last night, I very nearly hauled her out of bed in the middle of the night to go make her a bottle of cow's milk just to get her back to sleep, because it seemed like she was starving.
Anyone else BTDT and have any advice?
