Hi Emma,

An update a month later. He’s just turned 6 months.

We have succesfully stopped breastfeeding him to sleep during naps and at bedtime. Our settling routine now is starting with announcing he’s going to bed, going to the room and making it dark, singing a lullaby and holding him upright on my chest and breathing slowly with him to…

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Hi Emma,

I´ve noticed something during the night: he sometimes sooths himself to sleep during one of the early morning wakes now (happened 3x this week). At 4 or at 5 sometimes he starts calling out but then falls asleep after again.

But as you said, these moments should be the hardest because sleep pressure is low. Does that support the idea…

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Hi Emma,

It’s a very recent development (5th day now that he does it). If I understand correctly then:

For now just feed when he wakes up like usual, he’ll probably learn to link his sleep cycles next so if I just wait it out a bit, he might start weaning of night feeds by himself the next couple of weeks. I already noticed that his first wake…

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Hi Emma,

1. (Final) wake-up between 6:15 to 6:30. Only then I get him out of bed, every wake up before 6am I treat as a night waking and try to get him back to sleep again (endless walking around usually works).
2. Settling with the naps is still more difficult, he needs more comfort and sometimes he cries so much it seems it’s hunger and so I…

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Hi Emma,

My son is almost 5 months old and we are struggling with the nights. He still wakes up every 2-3 hours at the first half of the night (7pm to 3am) but then he wakes every hour (4-7 am). I breastfeed and I do have the impression he drinks a fair bit too ( but only in the first half of the night), so it’s not only for comfort. Although…

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