The baby slept from 11.50 last night until I woke him at 7.30 this morning - just my luck that it was on the night that the clocks went forward so I lost an hour anyway. It also coincided with Gina Ford calling me to discuss the problems we'd been having with his sleep - my partner said that the baby must have known that we were about to get serious!
As mentioned previously on this blog, I have been emailing Gina and the team at contentedbaby.com and have posted a question to the sleeping forum on the site. Gina suggested getting the baby to bed earlier, topping him up with milk before his lunchtime sleep and giving him a bottle before bedtime. She also said that at nearly 22lb at 28 weeks he's a very big baby and can't be expected to sleep through the night without a feed until he's fully established on solids. That makes me feel a whole lot better and the getting him to bed earlier definitely works as I have been putting him down after my toddler, but when my partner's here to put the toddler to bed, the baby sleeps much better.
He's also now eating well...so far he's had lots of different veggies, chicken, lentils and pasta...but surprise, surprise he prefers fruit and especially mango. Tonight he polished off a whole bowl of butternut squash soup in less than 10 minutes...I'll let you know tomorrow if it helps him to sleep...but I'm not holding my breath...
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