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Go with the flow or a routine?

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Thomcat · 03/03/2006 19:57

DD2 is 10 weeks old. We don't have a routine as such and I breastfeed her on demand. Thought I might start introducing a little bit of a more structured routine. I think my main reason for doing this is so that when I have to go back to work in 3 months time my mum and friend who will share the childcare know where they are with her and it would be fairer on them.

Not entirely sure how I'll go about it though.
Lottie was totally unique and a dream child, slightly unnatural really but that was down to her having Down's syndrome. This time round with DD2 she's different and so am I. Not sure if a routine is what we want but if it is, not sure how I shoukld go about it.
Any advice?

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hoxtonchick · 03/03/2006 20:56

playex bottles worked for us

Elibean · 03/03/2006 21:01

I like go with the flow too....my only routine as such with dd was the bath, milk, bed one which I started at around 12 weeks. I did find the rest flowed from there, and soon she put herself into nap routines - three times a day, to start with.
And I didn't do any controlled crying until 14 months (at which point she was testing, big difference in her cry and how I felt hearing it!) and then it was really limited.

But I have no experience with a second child!

matnanplus · 03/03/2006 21:03

MAM ULTIvent teats are good and work with wide neck bottle except NUK and Chicco.

The advantage of playtex is that like breast feeding baby doesn't need to pause to let air back into the bottle to equalise it.

The 2 other good bottle systems are Dr Browns BFree and Tommee Tippee Health Check, both of these systems let the air into the bottle via a valve so keep the milk bubble free and MAM teats work with them.

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