Right, i am new to all of this so go easy on me! I am mum to 3 week old little lady, she is exclusively breast fed and i don't express yet, i wanted to sort out feeds first. I fed on demand for the first 2 weeks but i completely exhausted myself, i found as a new mum it was impossible to read my babys cues and just ended up feeding her pretty much non stop, she would snack for 20 mins and then sleep only to wake 20 minutes later. I was really ready to pack in the BF unless i changed something. I looked into it and decided to start adopting a pattern to feeds and just soothing my little one inbetween feeds if she was anxious.
SO.... This is what i have been doing.
7am wake feed , change and get ready for the day.
10am feed
1pm feed
4pm feed
7pm feed
10pm feed
11pm, lavender bath and bed.
She usually sleeps then from about 12 until at least 4am every night (so thats 6 hours between feeds.
Then I feed at 4am and she sleeps through until 7am ( sometimes we lie in until 7:30/ 8:00am if she doesn't wake.
Feeds are at least 40minutes to an hour long each time and she takes both breast. She is putting on weight well and in the 75th centile.
My trouble is i work every evening 5:30- 9:30pm every evening as of January as i'm self employed. My OH will pick up LO from me at 6pm and do the 7pm feed at home, my question is should we be doing the bedtime after the 7pm feed instead of the 10pm, am i giving my LO a long enough night time so to speak? Should i wake her later? She naps when ever she wants during the day other when i wake for feeds. She will usually sleep most of the morning, and have more awake time in the evenings.
Im not sure whether its because its been Christmas time and she has been over stimulated and the routine has been thrown off but she seems less settled after bath now and can take a good while to settle, is this overtiredness? The routine seemed to be going wonderfully the first 4 days of doing it but now she is much harder to settle I'm scared I'm tiring her out :-(
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Sarah337034 · 27/12/2012 21:48
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