Anyone following EASY?? (12 weeks old)
I have a question over bed time routine that I'm hoping someone can help me with. From 6am getting up she is absolutely fine and gets it - we feed, then have a play then she naps. This happens at 6, 12 and 3 and its great cus I can plan my day. Then what I'm trying to do is get her in a bedtime routine where she has a bath first and then her 6pm bottle and goes down after that. But is that in the wrong order? Because when i try and bath her at about 5.45pm she is really hungry. But then if I feed her first she will have a full tummy so i cant bath her? Everything proceeds perfect from thereon once asleep at about 7pm. I wake her up about 9.30pm for a feed then she has another one about 2am and we start over. Thanks for reading - would really appreciate any help you can offer ?
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7: eat
7.30: activity
9: sleep
10: eat
10.30 activity
12.00: sleep
1: eat
1.30 activity
3.00 sleep
4: eat
5: activity
6: bath
6.30 baby massage
7.eat
my ds was sleeping through early so I didn't really have any night feed issues but I read that night feeds with easy should be up and fed and out down so they know it's night time and dim lighting.
I'll be honest though, I found easy..well..easy mainly because my baby naturally fell into it himself and took 3hrly 7oz from around 8wks. It won't be long before your lo finds their own rythm x
sorry its abrupt - need sleep! x
In my opinion - getting a baby as early as possible into a routine is the very best thing you could do for them - life is routine - night day awake sleep - its pretty basic stuff really x
We split feed for baths too but in saying that I split feed all day long lol!
Faithie - my DD is no whopper compared to your wee boy, (but is on 75th centile for weight all the same!) but due to silent reflux she has days when she 'snacks' too - sometimes you just to have to split feed, ,but what I do in our routine is, if she eats, then has playtime then I'm putting her down for a nap, I offer her a wee top up just before she goes down, read her a wee story (to avoid feeding her to sleep) and that's a bigger feed down her in one 'cycle' if you see what I mean. the other thing I've found is that through working on getting her to take longer naps (usually an hour or so in the am, 2 hours at lunchtime and an hour in the afternoon) not only is she more energetic when she wakes and takes a bigger feed in one go, but she also is less overtired and sleeps from 7-1030 (we wake her for feed) then 11-630. It's ironic that the better she naps during the day, the more she sleeps at night. She's much happier now tho, so obv needs it! xxx
How about this...if I followed what L wanted he would only feed every 8 hours...but only has a teeny tummy so would only take 10oz a day roughly...funnily enough that's not enough! So I put him in a routine for his own good. We aren't torturing them for God's sake, we're doing what we think is best. Your opinion was not asked for here.
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Otherwise I just always offer a feed when he wakes up, regardless of when he last fed, so we kind of start again iyswim? So sometimes the A might be really short but if that's what LO wants, that's what LO gets!! You'll get the hang of it after a while, it takes some time to find your feet but then it's easy (excuse the pun!).
Not sure how that is read as wanting to start an argument. My LO is also on a routine, led by him mostly with a bit of adapting to suit me too. I'm asking because he's off his routine at the moment. Simple.