Sleeping Through the Night
What every mom wish for is a healthy baby in their arms, and better still if she’s a healthy little baby that sleeps through the night as soon as possible. I was not that lucky. I have 2 wonderful kids that treat me like a pacifier at night!
I think the way westerners put their babies to sleep is totally different from Asian. I read so much about training babies to sleep, but I didn’t put it into practice. I think that sleep deprivation is part of motherhood, and it’s not going to be forever. I need my sleep too, and I know how bad it is if I’ve been sleep deprived for a long time. But if you want me to put sleep as more important that nursing my baby at night, I just can’t do it. Anyway, I don’t have anyone to help me with this too!
My SIL is lucky. She can sleep through the night while her mum or nanny can take care of her baby for her. All she needs to do is express her milk and they will feed her baby at night. She breastfeeds her baby exclusively, and can still catch up if her precious sleep.
On the other hand, I’ve always known that I have no one to help out. So, since I’ve made my mind to breastfeed my babies exclusive, I got to do it by myself. I joked to my hubby that I can’t remember when was the last time I slept through the night, and I don’t think I know how to do that now! 
Just now, I met with an ex-colleague while shopping at Jusco. She breastfed her 2 older kids, and now still breastfeeding her 1 year old. She told me her baby is yet to sleep through the night, and I truely understand how it feels. Both of us are putting our kids above of our beauty sleep in our list. Ha! She asked when will I be weaning off Isabelle, and I said I’ll let Isabelle decide. I was forced to wean off Justin due to complicated pregnancy (I planned to breastfeeding throughout pregnancy at first) so I don’t want to stress her out. If she’s not ready and needs her comfort nursing so frequent at night, I’ll tune in with her.
Yes, I know I can supplement her with stuffy formula milk at night to make her sleep through, or give her a pacifier, or feed water only, but I didn’t do any of those. Not now and not ever.
For me, I can sleep well (although not thru the night) cos’ I just lift up my shirt and put the breast for Shayanne to suck while I get my good night sleep.
That’s what I was doing until now, but she’s getting very sticky, probably teething again.
my Sean will turn 1 this 16. Paed ask me to wean said bm has no nutrition. Next bb jab will tell her off NO!! let sean wean himself.
My Sean dont sleep through the night still to bf 3-4 times.
SSS1979, confort nursing huh? Good for you, don’t force Sean to wean off, it’s really stressful for both of you if he’s not ready. I went thru that, and would prefer to let Isabelle wean off by herself now.