Bed Breast

I think I have just done something slightly insane...

But it worked...

For now.

My husband is away tonight so I am flying solo with the bed time routine and night wakings.  Tonight, the little man fed until 19:20 was asleep in my arms but then woke.  I couldn't get him back off just by holding him so I sat him on my lap and rocked a bit, telling him stories and singing him his favourite song, Moonshadow by Cat Stevens.  Eventually he nodded off and stayed asleep in his cot for three hours.

I got him out of his cot to feed him and he fed to sleep.  Unfortunately in moving him to put him back into his cot he keep waking.  I didn't want to keep feeding him continuously as he would overfeed and be sick.  So at the last attempt to put him in his cot, his eyes wide open, I did something slightly crazy.  I leant over the cot with my boob hanging down and gave him a quick few sucks, which did the trick to get him sleepy again.  He released so I pulled away slightly.  Then he tossed and turned from side to side a few times and went to sleep... ten minutes later and he is still asleep.  I wonder whether he will stay this way for another three plus hours or whether I am going to have a crying baby in 20 minutes or so?

Will report back in the morning as to whether this madness has worked.

Well I wanted him to fall asleep in his cot, didn't I??


4th Jan 2016 - He did fall back asleep for another three hours but that insane moment was a one off! I have since found a much better method for getting my son to sleep in his cot!