On the hour, every hour

I always seem to find a reason to nurse my baby in the middle of the night, even if it has only been one hour since the last feed.  Last night, he was moaning in his sleep, which I tried to ignore until it turned into a cry.  A couple of times he coughed and sounded a little hoarse so I decided that denying him a drink would be cruel.  He spent most of the night in bed with me apart from 7:30-11:00 (during which time he still had two wake ups but went back in the cot) and 3:00-4:00 (I thought I had better try putting him back in the cot).

Today I would really like him to feed better.  But it really doesn't seem to matter what I want, as he will either feed well or not.  All I can do is keeping offering it to him.

I have been reading about the Pick Up Put Down (PUPD) method of settling to sleep, put forward by the baby whisperer.  It basically involves picking your baby up for 2 minutes when they are crying, putting them back down, picking them up when they start crying again etc. I am not convinced that my little man's temperament will allow this to be a successful method but it might be worth a try at some point.

It has also occurred to me that if my baby was asleep through his disturbances last night, perhaps I ought to have left him to self-settle.  Especially when he was moaning and flapping rather than crying.  It is hard to know what to do for the best.

My husband wonders if it is time to put him in his own room.  I just don't feel ready for that yet.  But I do think it is worth getting him used to his own room so that when I am ready, he is ready too.  We need to spend some time in there changing, playing etc so he is used to it.  That will be quite nice actually.

Currently, my little one is napping upstairs.  He went down very easily!  The other factor I have thought of which makes daytime different to nighttime is the blanket we use.  It is a star blanket with a hood.  I would use it at night but am too worried about SIDS.  Especially as he doesn't yet have the wherewithall to pull a cloth away from his own face.

I really hope he feeds better today. It will be one less thing to worry about.