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Routine?
I just wondered if you have any sort of routine going, or planned? I try to feed holly at 7am, 11am, 3pm, 7pm, 11pm and 3am. It rarely works like that though. She isnt too bad at sleeping from 11pm to 3am but from the 7pm feed to 10pm she is wide awake, then not impressed about being woken an hour later (all be it a very quiet and quick feed). I wondered how much milk (if youre giving formula) you are giving and when and what your little ones waking and sleeping habits are,
Sorry if this seems really nosey, i just feel like holly does what she wants when she wants! And although there is nothing wrong with that i would like to have atleast a decent plan on whats happening and when!
Thanks in advance! Sarah x
Sorry if this seems really nosey, i just feel like holly does what she wants when she wants! And although there is nothing wrong with that i would like to have atleast a decent plan on whats happening and when!
Thanks in advance! Sarah x
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Wakes at 6.30am for a feed, if he doesn't i wake him, he goes back to sleep on school run, then feed at 9.30ish, back to sleep for a bit, feed at 12ish, then he usually stays awake for a bit, offer him boob at 2pm so he's not screaming during school run, bottle at 4.30ish, plays for a bit then sleeps till about 6.30, more boob at 7pm then plays till about 9.30 (or bath then boob at 7) then bottle at 10ish, normally asleep by 10.30, hopefully through till 6.30!
That makes it sound like he's either feeding, or sleeping all day but it isn't quite like that! Obviously this is only rough, some days he's really awake and alert through the day and sleepy in evening, others his sleepy all day and alert all evening.
For his 2 bottles a day he has 5oz at the moment but the bedtime one he drinks anything from 2oz to 5oz but he has boob first so it's really a top up.
Hope this helps, don't stress too much about routine, as soon as you settle in one, lo will change mind about when she wants food and sleep throwing you back into confusion again!
Amy as no routine or she does have one for 3 days and then it completely turns on its head!!
I was getting quite stressed about it till HV told me that she's only 5 weeks old and is still settling in. The only thing HV said was to try to feed her every 3 hours during the day and eventually she'll sleep longer in to the night, this has worked some days but not others.
The only bit of repetition we have is wash/bath about 7ish and into clean sleepsuit and then she comes up to bed with us at 10.30ish.
Generally she sleeps really soundly between feeds so it's not too bad at night, some nights she'll go 4 hours between feeds and sometimes she's gone 6 hours - it swings and roundabouts!
Not sure if this has helped??
xxx
He is still sleeping a lot throughout the day, roughly for every hour is he awake he then has another hour asleep! Some nights he is very good and wakes for a feed and then goes straight back to sleep, other nights I can spend an hour trying to get some trapped wind up for him before he will go back to sleep. Got my mum coming out to visit us next week and she is bringing infacol thank god!!!
Can't wait for him to start sleeping longer at night!!!
Liz x
He's usually not too bad at settling back to sleep after a night time bottle - not in the early hours of this morning after a boob though! I'm so tired...but at least my tumble dryer is here so it was worth getting up early!
Any hints anyone on what helps or works?
Jillycat
has also helped with routine and bringing bedtime forward to 10pmish instead of midnight through exhaustion!
has also helped with routine and bringing bedtime forward to 10pmish instead of midnight through exhaustion!
At night Holly does feed for hours on demand but it doesn't really help her sleep for much longer, the last few nights its been every 2 hours but then again her wee nose has been a bit suffed up. I put some saline drops in her nose last night and it seemed to help a bit.
We normally tend to bath Holy at 7.30 then massage, change into sleeping bag then I feed her in the bedroom and she stays there for the night. Not sure if she is too young for a routine yet or to know the difference between nigh and day!
Is the baby whisperer book any good? I might get it if you guys think its worth it.
Amy xxx
Hubby gives her the last bottle and then brings her to bed when I go around 10pm. He doesn't know it yet but he'll also begin giving her her night feed every so often, esp at weekend! Last night she went from 8.15pm bottle to 4.40am, her best yet!
She has sleepy days and then very awake days but has def settled more between bottle feeds. She loves her baths (also fuller than 'the rules'!) and will 'play' more now without getting bored quickly!
Isn't it brill when they smile and chuckle? These little ones grow so quickly!
Think I will try the cluster feeding too to try and get him to sleep a bit longer at night. Last night he was wide awake from 4am to 5am, I put him in his vibrating bouncer for a bit to see if that sent him to sleep but he just sat there gazing around at the shadows on the walls! Just got him back to sleep in his moses basket and half an hour later my ohs alarm clock went off and Brendan woke up again!! Arrgghh!!!
I have the baby whisperer book too (you can get it on Amazon for not a bad price) I have only got about half way through it though!!
L xx
Hopefully Brendan will be like Bryn Emma and it will be a one off staying awake in the early hours!
I have been having lots of fun with him this afternoon playing songs and singing along while bouncing around with him! Think his favourite song so far is 5 little speckled frogs lol! The way he looks at me I think he thinks I am crazy! But I figure the longer I can keep him awake and entertained during the day must help tire him out so he sleeps more at night!
L xx
Holly wakes at 6am and has first feed, then 11am, 3pm, bath at 6pm and another feed then bed at 7pm. Sleeps until 1:30 or if im lucky 3am. if she wakes at 1:30 she will wake again at 4:30 otherwise its 6am. Each feed is 5oz but she is starting to drain that now so may increase to 6oz. x
Well we are in more of a routine now. Amy feeds at 7am, 11am, 3pm and 7pm (give or take an hour or so) between 5oz and 6oz at each feed. We put her in her moses basket in our room at about 8pm and she'll generally sleep through til her 7am feed. She does often wake up at about 5ish but is quite happy to have a dummy and a kick about in her bed and no tears (and I'm learning to doze back off for a couple more hours!)
I know we are really, really lucky and I can honestly say that we have been completely led my Amy and not tried to get her in to any sort of routine. I guess she's just an easy to please baby!
Having said that she can be a bit fussy at feeds and can sometimes take nearly an hour to have one bottle and she is awake a lot more in the day now, particularly in the afternoon, which I suppose is helping her sleep through at night.
Hope the rest of you are getting there!?!?
He sleeps through now till around 7, maybe a little after if I'm lucky! His injections did give us a bit of a setback with wakeup times, but on the whole we've been lucky and he mostly sleeps through and has done since 6 weeks. Its just in the last couple of weeks we got strict with bathtime - before it was just whenever!
Through the daytime, he has bf, then bottle in morning, naps whenever I can get him to, and feeds when ever he fusses for food. I think I'll try for set mealtimes when he starts having solids.. cause I'm mixing bf and formula I'm still pretty much demand feeding.
Rachel - have you tried Amy on the next stage bottle teats? I've been using stage 2 teats with Cole for the last week or so and now he finishes his bottles a lot faster with a lot less fussing. I think he was getting fed up with the milk not coming fast enough. Course now I've had to learn not to let him guzzle so much wihtout a break otherwise I end up covered in puke sometimes!!