Babies will wean and someday they will sleep through the night. This high maintenance stage of nighttime parenting will pass. The time in your arms, at your breast, and in your bed is a relatively short while in the life of a baby, yet the memories of love and availability last forever.
洋洋媽 & nikitac,
Thanks so much for the advices. I used a sling to comfort my baby to sleep today, and she took an afternoon nap while I walking around my house. And miracle happened: My baby accept my husband comforting her in the sling, without crying for milk tonight! Hope she can improve day by day. Thanks so much!
Avis Mak,
Hope your baby can sleep through the night very soon.
Avis Mak,
I think my daughter is having the same problem as yours. She wakes up every 2 hours from "last feeding" on 9pm.
She is being exclusively breastfed from the day of birth, and is now nearly 8 months. The most difficult thing for me is, she doesn't want other one to comfort her. If my husband holds her and rocks her to sleep, she can keep crying for hours. So in order to make her going back to sleep quickly, I offer her my breast.
I know from the Dr.Sears's article, my daughter can't find the other way to comfort herself back to sleep at night. But that makes me feel so tired, and people keep saying that is a bad habit.
I found even in the day time nap, she prefers me nursing her to sleep, otherwise she can stay awake the whole day(though become very fussy!) So I must stay along with her 7/24.
My mil kept saying she is not having enough food, and always ask me to offer her more solid food. But I found offering more food won't make a difference on her sleeping pattern.
Do we need to "harden our heart" and don't breastfeed her during night time?
細仔 現在10個月了，出世時6磅重，現在有21磅重。由細到大他每天只會飲一至二餐奶粉(全日最多120mL) ，其餘是人奶。他在6個月開始食一餐粥，9個月開始食2餐粥，不肯吃水果，一吃便嘔，胃口很細，一餐最多只能吃120mL。時間表如下:
7:00am -------------起床
8:30am -------------一細碗稀粥
10:00am ------------小睡30-45 mins
10:30am-11:00 ------人奶約100 mL
1:30pm -------------一細碗稀粥
2:00pm------------- 小睡30-45 mins
4:30pm -------------奶粉約60 mL
6:30-7:00pm --------埋身餵約20-30mins
7:00 pm ------------開始晚開睡眠
9:00 pm-------------埋身餵約15 mins
11:00 pm ---------- 奶粉約60 mL
其後都是約每2小時醒一次 (1, 3, 5 ,6 am)，而每次我都會埋身餵約15 mins。晚上埋身餵奶時，仔仔都是合着眼飲的。每次餵奶後乳房都是柔軟的，所以仔仔的確有飲到奶。若不理他，他便會清醒過來，一抱起他，他便找奶吃。所以我只好埋身餵奶令他盡快再睡。仔仔自從出世後至今睡眠方式都是這樣，令我長時間不能好好休息。他是和我同床睡的，我又不忍心把他交給與工人同睡。其實自從大仔在2007年8月出世以來也經常睡醒，他是飲人奶(樽餵)和奶粉各半的。大仔之前和我同房不同床睡的，所以我已經差不多在3年裏沒有一覺睡得長過3小時，而每天早上午7時許上班，中午揼一次奶 (約100 - 120 mL)，下午6時許回到家真的覺得很攰。
是否我餵人奶的方法有問題令他不能安睡呢? 還是他根本不是肚餓只是掛住媽碼的乳房呢?雖然他胃口細但增重很理想(生長線由出世的10%增重到現在的90%) 所以他應該吃得夠。
avis mak 加油！
哺乳圍巾，送禮自用皆宜，所有收益撥捐推廣母乳，歡迎選購。
原來不少媽媽都有類似的情況，知道自己並非唯一一個便不用擔心是否自己做錯了。看完2篇文章感受最深的是其中一篇作者所寫的結尾詞:
Babies will wean and someday they will sleep through the night. This high maintenance stage of nighttime parenting will pass. The time in your arms, at your breast, and in your bed is a relatively short while in the life of a baby, yet the memories of love and availability last forever.
無錯，我真的很珍惜每次埋身餵奶的時間。每次BB於晚上醒來都只要我抱，其他人抱他便哭。由此我知道他很愛我，所以就算辛苦也會繼續下去，直到BB自然斷奶。各位媽媽也一起努力吧!
洋洋媽 & nikitac,
Thanks so much for the advices. I used a sling to comfort my baby to sleep today, and she took an afternoon nap while I walking around my house. And miracle happened: My baby accept my husband comforting her in the sling, without crying for milk tonight! Hope she can improve day by day. Thanks so much!
Avis Mak,
Hope your baby can sleep through the night very soon.
近來在網上或熱線收到有關bb 哭鬧,不肯睡的查詢真不少.
有的說不應任由幼小的嬰兒在驚恐不安中渡過.
有的又說應自小就給bb 養成有規律的作息時間.
我們就曾經在一次義工培訓課中,互相就此課題作過討論.形勢都是在以上的兩陣營的對壘.
然而,要任由初生嬰孩在哭啼中,自行條理出生活規律這道理,是知易行難的.除非妳堅信妳的親兒在很短的過程就會適應下來.否則,妳要面對的各方質疑或挑剔,將使妳自己陷入更迷惑的境地.
當以上的方法行不通,我們就得承認,每個嬰孩都是一個獨立的個體,都有著不同的表現及成長過程,更有其不一樣的需要!有的孩子需要輕拍幾下,有的需要呵,有的需要哄,有的需要錫,有的需要媽媽的體溫及氣味......
兼且,一個新生嬰,面對一切都感陌生的人物和環境,又不能說出他們心底所需,其實,他們也挺無奈的.我們做父母的就是要從嬰孩的反應,去了解與滿足他們的需要啊!
我又聽過有人說,只要信任那一套的說法,就要一家人,齊心跟著去做,要貫徹始終,一定有效!
所以,當媽媽或家人對照顧新生嬰感到無所適從時,不妨靜靜的問問自己,若自己就是那混沌的小嬰孩,妳希望能得到那一種對待呢?!
或是你們可參考Dr. Sears 的文章：NIGHT WEANING: 12 ALTERNATIVES FOR THE ALL-NIGHT NURSER
另外還有31 WAYS TO GET YOUR BABY TO GO TO SLEEP AND STAY ASLEEP EASIER 和8 INFANT SLEEP FACTS EVERY PARENT SHOULD KNOW
Avis Mak,
I think my daughter is having the same problem as yours. She wakes up every 2 hours from "last feeding" on 9pm.
She is being exclusively breastfed from the day of birth, and is now nearly 8 months. The most difficult thing for me is, she doesn't want other one to comfort her. If my husband holds her and rocks her to sleep, she can keep crying for hours. So in order to make her going back to sleep quickly, I offer her my breast.
I know from the Dr.Sears's article, my daughter can't find the other way to comfort herself back to sleep at night. But that makes me feel so tired, and people keep saying that is a bad habit.
I found even in the day time nap, she prefers me nursing her to sleep, otherwise she can stay awake the whole day(though become very fussy!) So I must stay along with her 7/24.
My mil kept saying she is not having enough food, and always ask me to offer her more solid food. But I found offering more food won't make a difference on her sleeping pattern.
Do we need to "harden our heart" and don't breastfeed her during night time?
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