Calling all night time feeders - always up feeding when we should be sleeping! Let's keep each other company PART 2!!

[Writerwannabe83]

I think to start the new thread off we should reintroduce ourselves and our babies for the sake of our own memories and also for any newbies who may join

I have a 10 week old DS who is EBF. Has been sleeping through the night for the last week and I'm just waiting patiently for things to go downhill as I'm sure they will

Nothing really, she wasn't concerned as such but wants me to go back in 4 weeks and have him checked again.

I don't think that's anything to worry about writer. Isn't the average gain 1lb per month? It's only a little bit under that and there has to be some babies that gain more or less than average.

Sounds like you're doing a grand job

I thought monthly weight gain was supposed to be between 18-20oz?
I have no idea to be fair.

He has dropped on his graph too.

She told me not to worry about it easy for her to say and just to go back in a month.

How many centiles has he dropped? My health visitor said they only get concerned if they drop 2. I read that the norm for a breast-fed baby is 4-6oz per week so you're not that far off. Formula fed babies tend to gain much easier, as evidenced by DD who has gained 1lb11oz in 3 weeks

He has only dropped one. She did say that because it's warm it may be that DS is just after the watery fore milk as opposed to wanting the calorific hind milk and that's why his weight gain had been much slower than it has previously been.

But she didn't seem overly fussed so I know I don't have anything to worry about but as a EBF mom it's hard to think his only source of nourishment is me and things aren't going as well as they have been.

Johull, believe me I've had lots of bad nights! In 4 months this is one of the best and I feel so lucky ?? all the babies will give us good nights eventually...

Writer, I do know how you feel. If you remember, last week my boy only gained 50 grams (don't know in ounces) in two weeks, where only he gains 150 a week! He also had gone from 75th centile to 91st to 50th to 25th and now 9th. I was very worried and really that fear that alone was not giving him enough. Well, I went back this week and he gained his 150 and stayed the 9th centile. My hv told me that dropping centiles alone is not an issue as long as baby is healthy, happy, active, producing wet and dirty nappies and learning new skills. I think the lines can be a good indicator for checking for bad signs but are also a bit strict. I'm sure you're doing a great job and you would know if your baby seemed unwell.

Should read 'normally gains 150' and my main point was babies do often go up and down lines, and it's good to check for sinister causes but it's sometimes just normal for them. sorry for the essay, baby babbling loudly and distracting me!

I think that midnight and her HV are absolutely right - if your baby seems happy and is developing well in other ways, don't worry about it.
I know lots of mums who don't bother going to baby clinic for this exact reason - the numbers on the scale can be very stressful.

DD2 has gone to bed like a dream. DD1 on the other hand is having a stinking tantrum upstairs with DH. Anybody fancy swapping a sleep avoiding tot for a screaming threenager?!

Thanks midnight and twentieth - I'm going to put it to the back of my mind

After sleeping 13 hours last night (bar the one hour break he had for a feed at 4am) DS has also slept well today. He's had 2 short naps during the day and then a 2 hour nap this evening (only work up at half 7).

I'm going to take him to bed at about 9pm, feed him and then hope for another good night.

Should also add that I had my son checked by the GP just to be sure he had no obvious health problems.

Writer - your baby is sleeping so well. Lucky you! Hope it continues.

Well he's in his crib now gurgling away to himself. It usually takes him half an hour to drop off so we'll see how it goes.

When I made the move to the crib I got some bumpers for it and they have jungle animals on them which he loves. He just lies there staring at them, bless him.

Try not to worry writer I'm sure all is fine as you haven't mentioned any concerns about him generally.

Ryder fed from both boobs and drained them, gonna put him to bed now, hope he doesn't stir and hope for another 8 hours like last night

Better here! He went down in his cot first time of asking at 8:30 and slept til 12:20. I was in bed by 9 so I would have got just over 3 hours unbroken but got woken at 10:30 by 9 group texts coming through on vibrate to arrange lunch tomorrow with some friends - typical!

Mrsm - at least you know he can do it, that's great!

Hi all

Can I join in? My twins are 13 days old and were 4.4 and 4.5 as premie. As they were in scbu they have been mix fed from the start and still have not learned to latch properly though I persevere.

My milk seems to have virtually disappeared in the last two days. Before I was expressing enough to cover half their feeds and now not even 100ml in a day! Am trying not to stress, drinking lots if water etc but feel pretty devastated about it.

Any thoughts?

He went down at 1 and we're just doing a 2nd feed here. I've also changed him. I don't normally change at all in the night but just experimenting to see if he's more comfortable and sleeps in longer in the morning when drier.

So definitely a better night here. Don't want to count my chickens but maybe he's come out the other side of the 4 month regression? How long are they supposed to last? It's been about 2 weeks. Of course tomorrow could go back tits up!

Welcome scater - congratulations on your twins. I don't have much advice other than just to say what you can express doesn't necessarily reflect your supply. I've been EBF for 16 weeks and my DS is lovely and chubby but I can barely express a drop!

Crikey!!! We fed at 11pm and have just woken for another feed at 4am!!! Let's hope that this is a new pattern and that we won't revert to 2 hourly feeds again

Scater - what time do you express? I haven't expressed with my DS but did with DD. I found that in the morning the milk would pour out but if I tried in the evening there would only be a tiny drop.

Hi Scater. Congratulations on your twins! What the others have said about expressing is correct. It might be worth starting a new thread in the breastfeeding topic for some specialist advice though. There's bound to be some posters with more experience of exclusively expressing and twins. Stick round here for some general chat and support though!

Hooray mrsm - perfectly feasible that you could be coming out the other side of the regression. I think two weeks is quite a normal length of time for it to last.

Thanks for ideas. I will start a thread. I currently express straight after each of the girls feeds.

We have done well so far tonight, girls are v windy, a bit colicky and have been quite restless. We took them out of their cot, wedged the carrycots on a slight angle and they slept four hours straight! (Not counting my chickens).

Welcome scater and congrats on your twins!

We had another ok night, up at 2 and 5. Baby seems v hungry now as he just latched on to my cheek!

Hope everyone else is coming out of an ok night.

Welcome scater! If your twins are sleeping better on an incline then you can get a wedge that goes in cots (some under mattresses). It always helped my DS1 as he was really pukey.

DS2 slept 6.5 hours last night so that's been the last 5 nights where he has slept 6-8 hours (usually then does 2-3 hours after that too) so I'm hoping this is the way forward!

I passed DS over to DH to get up with just after 7 and I snoozed til 8:30 - heaven! I think he's really taken things on board this time.

DS has just gone down for a nap - took me a while to get him down in his cot but I'm persevering with it as it'll be better in the long run if I just crack night and day sleeps in the cot at once.

Better night last night. Dosed DS up on Calpol and he had 2 long naps in the day and then slept from about 1030pm til 5am this morning - a record! Am guessing the Calpol was responsible but still, I finally had some decent sleep and he appears to be over the bug he had yesterday. We have baby massage class this afternoon so will see how that goes. He's a bit grumpy atm but that could just be the heat.