fiddlefern
10-26-2005, 01:26 AM
My ds wakes every 1 to 2 hours all night long. Three months ago I stopped nursing at every waking. It was an aweful experience for us, because ds was very attached to nursing back to sleep. We did it because ds is Failure to Thrive and the horrible gastro-enterologist (ok, not horrible, just very mainstream) wanted us to wean completely (NOT) so I felt like I had to have some kind of compromise.
Anyway, we're through the other side of that, and usually when ds wakes up after an hour or two, I can pat his back and he rolls over and goes back to sleep, often without any fuss whatsoever. Ds sleeps in a crib sidecarred to our bed (except when I fall asleep nursing- tee hee). I nurse him every 3 hours or so, more often if his tummy's grumbling at a 2 hour waking.
My question is... Why is he still waking so frequently? I realize this is probably hard to answer over the internet without knowing my child. I'm just feeling like there must be something else going on here, something related to the fact that he's FTT (gradually dropped to the zero percentile after being born in the 50%, his height/weight ratio is in the first percentile- basically way too skinny). We have no idea why he's FTT- he's been tested for food allergies, he's been tested for all kinds of nasty things which he doesn't have.
We're seeing a naturopath for the second time tomorrow and perhaps she'll have answers, but I just thought I'd post here on the chance ya'll could help me brainstorm.
Anyway, we're through the other side of that, and usually when ds wakes up after an hour or two, I can pat his back and he rolls over and goes back to sleep, often without any fuss whatsoever. Ds sleeps in a crib sidecarred to our bed (except when I fall asleep nursing- tee hee). I nurse him every 3 hours or so, more often if his tummy's grumbling at a 2 hour waking.
My question is... Why is he still waking so frequently? I realize this is probably hard to answer over the internet without knowing my child. I'm just feeling like there must be something else going on here, something related to the fact that he's FTT (gradually dropped to the zero percentile after being born in the 50%, his height/weight ratio is in the first percentile- basically way too skinny). We have no idea why he's FTT- he's been tested for food allergies, he's been tested for all kinds of nasty things which he doesn't have.
We're seeing a naturopath for the second time tomorrow and perhaps she'll have answers, but I just thought I'd post here on the chance ya'll could help me brainstorm.