breastfeeding and a basic routine?
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Hi ladies! I'm wondering if anyone can give me any advice or their experience of establishing a basic routine when breastfeeding.
My daughter is now 8 weeks and have been feeding on demand - we had a bit of a rocky start but settled now and generally breastfeeding is going well now after a lit of hard work on both our parts. She generally only has one feed during the night now after an early and then a late evening feed. However timings could be anytime throughout the day and there is no real pattern to naps. I realise that it's hard to get a beastfed baby into a routine but I'd really like a loose one - even just setting a general bedtime and wake up time. I'd like to do early evening feed and bath starting about seven so my husband can see her and help out when he gets home from work. So if anyone has experience of this or any words of wisdom then they'd be gratefully received!
Thanks!
My daughter is now 8 weeks and have been feeding on demand - we had a bit of a rocky start but settled now and generally breastfeeding is going well now after a lit of hard work on both our parts. She generally only has one feed during the night now after an early and then a late evening feed. However timings could be anytime throughout the day and there is no real pattern to naps. I realise that it's hard to get a beastfed baby into a routine but I'd really like a loose one - even just setting a general bedtime and wake up time. I'd like to do early evening feed and bath starting about seven so my husband can see her and help out when he gets home from work. So if anyone has experience of this or any words of wisdom then they'd be gratefully received!
Thanks!
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We have always followed his lead and its hard to impose a proper 'routine' because of growth spurts etc, and even now (almost 7 months)he will have extra wee feeds some days, if he is hungry or tired. Hope you get something sorted, have heard that the EASY routine above is really good x
My LO was EBF and we started with a routine based around EASY at about eight weeks when I discovered she napped better upstairs in her crib, rather than downstairs.
We actually did EAESY as one feed didn't last her long enough to get through the activity and the sleep. The timings really varied from day to day but I just took the lead from her and got really good at knowing when she was tired or hungry.
At bedtime we did a bath at 6.00pm regardless of where in the EAESY we were, then a feed and bed about 7pm.
Going out throws the routine out because they sleep in the car but we always started with the first E whenever we got back from anywhere.
The Baby Whisperer warns not to let them fall asleep feeding as they become dependent on it to fall asleep so I started rousing her before I put her in bed from about 12 weeks. It worked well for us as she always been able to self settle and dropped her bedtime feed at about 10 months.
HTH
B xx