Originally Posted by
kristal
I have a few questions here.
1. I nurse him to sleep, so dont really know how much he's drinking before drifting off. What if he isn't drinking alot before sleeping and really is hungry in the middle of the night? He is on the lower side of the weight curve so I would hate to have him fall any further because I'm keeping him hungry at night.
2. I am at work all day. The only milk he drinks during the day is with cereal and as a fruit milkshake in the afternoon (spoon fed by the nanny). So he is probably reverse cycling where he's drinking most of his milk at night. In this situation, will I be doing the wrong thing by night weaning him? (As I said he doesnt take the bottle at all. From the sippy he'll drink maybe an once or so of milk, thats it. He drinks water from the sippy just fine.)
To get my twins to sleep better at night, I pushed more food (formula included) during the day. After about a week, they were sleeping better through the night. I'm thinking this was because they were used to getting more of their daily calories at night and so ate less during the day. Once they were eating more during the day, they didn't need to wake at night. My babies are thin too, so I understand your weight concerns.
I don't think it will be a piece of cake for you to wean him from co-sleeping. There are different tactics you could use, depending on what you are comfortable with. One way would be to gradually get him used to being laid down in his crib at night while you pat his back. If he drifts off to sleep- great! He'll wake eventually and you'll either bring him back to your bed or get up and pat his back some more while he's in his crib. If you keep trying I'm guessing that after a week, he'll get used to the idea of spending more and more of the night in his crib. If you feed him more during the day while trying to get him to spend more of the night in his crib, he'll sleep longer in his crib and won't take long before he's stayed asleep the whole night in his crib.
hth (I'm kind of sleep deprived today, ironically enough, so I hope that made sense)
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