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gina ford routine. help!!

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jodie1984 · 30/08/2005 16:06

hi my 8wk old ds has been on the gina ford routine for 1wk it is going well except for the 2.30 feed, he is not interested at all which throws the rest of the day out.
any suggestions welcome.

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lockets · 31/08/2005 09:18

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compo · 31/08/2005 09:21

Jodie - I think you should just go with whatever makes you and the baby happy. It sounds like you are having a very tough time of it - the 3 of you all in one room, parrots in the living room, an unhelpful dp and living with his parents. Do your parents live nearby? Are they helping out?

dejags · 31/08/2005 09:23

Good practical response Compo - now why didn't I think of that

Seriously Jodie, if your DS is settling well - you are on the right track. If he is grizzly in the day, then perhaps more daytime sleep is necessary and it doesn't (in my experience) have much of a knock on effect on night time sleep at this age.

HTH

Nickyfen · 31/08/2005 09:27

obviously people who feed on demand have some kind of routine, it may not necessarily fit in with how they normally live - i.e feeding all night.
As i said previously ds fed every 2.5 hours instead of every 3 as suggested by GF, however we still used a lot of her advise and it worked for us.

QueenOfQuotes · 31/08/2005 09:34

I started putting my DS's into 'routines' at about 6 weeks......BUT I was still demand feeding. We made 'routines' to suit us - not routines that someone else thought would suit us.

DS1 didn't sleep through until 6 months (but then he never slept during the day either LOL)

DS2 suddenly started sleeping through at 5 weeks

Sadly though the last of the 'daytime' routine seemst o be going out of the window - he doesn't want much sleep in the day anymore wAAAAAAAAAAAH

mumtosomeone · 31/08/2005 12:03

rach D
I think my comments are helpful or I would not post them!
how is Jodie getting on anyway..

chipmonkey · 31/08/2005 12:44

Poor Jodie! Bet you didn't think you'd start such an argument! I got the Baby Whisperer book by Tracey Hogg and while there were things in the book I didn't agree with (She suggests topping up with formula while trying to improve milk supply by expressing, mad!) by and large a lot of what she said made sense. I fed all my boys on demand but with ds1, I often fed him when I thought he was hungry when with hindsight he could have been just tired. One thing she says which made me smile was "What do babies know, they just got here!" Having glanced at the Gina Ford book, it does look very strict. Tracy Hogg's EASY {Eat, Activity, Sleep, time for YOU) seems a bit more flexible. |I think there is a big difference between a "routine" which can be adapted to suit you, and a "schedule" which in reality, most babies won't really fit into anyway. If the routine is basically working for you except for one glitch, I would make up your own routine which works for you and your baby, not necessarily Gina Ford's theoretical baby!

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jodie1984 · 01/09/2005 17:03

WOW i did not mean to start all of this, had a bit of a hectic day yesterday so i wasn't able to come online and it has just take me about 30mins to read all of these posts!!!
thankyou all very much for all of your suggestions and i can see all of your sides and see where you are comming from.
everything seemed to sort of fell into place yesterday, i also have the tracey hogg book which i find usefull to figure out why he is crying and to help him settle in his crib.
i would also like to say i thing GF i crazy to say let your baby cry himeself to sleep i would never do that, ds always dozzes in my arms before i put him in his crib and he is not scared when he wakes up because he is somewhere different because he always wakes up there.
the main thing i noticed yesterday was that he was still tired during the day after having his 4hrs sleep so i let him sleep. he also does not have a lot of milk at one time so i fed him every 2 1/2 - 3hrs so he was getting all of his callories, and when i fed him at 11pm last night he slept untill 5am which he has never done!!
he seems a lot happier today wanting to play more and giggling all the time.
so i can say he is a lot better and we are following GF loosely but ds is also having his say. so i dont see what all the arguing was about!! hehe, you was all right.

thankyou again

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RachD · 01/09/2005 17:10

Jodie
Glads things are better.
And sorry that I stole your thread and got carried away.

chipmonkey · 01/09/2005 17:14

Good to hear things are going well, Jodie!

mummyoffour · 02/09/2005 00:06

Hi all and especially mumtosomeone and others that agreed with demand feeding. I have not had a chance to look at this thread for a few days but glad I got some positive posts from my post on demand feeding....WHICH I TOTALLY BELIEVE IN. Good luck jodie1984

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