Sleep deprivation creates a self-fulfilling prophecy when it comes to managing babies. I am so tired that I will do anything for an easy life. So in the middle of the night, it is much easier to pick up to nurse than it is to think about what else could settle him. What is even easier, is to nurse him in bed with me so I can fall straight back to sleep. The result? My baby is more often sleeping in with us than he is in his own cot.
Now on the one hand, this isn't a problem because it is a sure fire way of me getting more sleep across the night.
On the other hand, I have to question whether I want to set this up as a habit.
In all honesty, I am in two minds.
In order to actually try other ways of settling our baby, we have to be more compus-mentus in the middle of the night.
A lovely breast-feeding advisor recommended to me that I only feed our little man when I am sure he is hungry and that at other times, my husband should take him out of the room and rock him back to sleep, away from me so he can't smell my milk. She warned me that it may take a few weeks before we notice a difference.
So because it is the weekend tomorrow, we are going to give it a crack. Let's see what happens.
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