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Inconsistent bottle feeding

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vet272 · 24/11/2014 17:26

10 week old taking feeds on demand. This can range from 2 1/2 hrs to 4 hrs. She takes from 3 to 5 1/2 ozs.
Can't get into any kind of routinise and nights are exhausting.
She also only poops every 3rd day, although gp said this is fine. I'm not so sure...
Thoughts?

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StarlightMcKenzie · 24/11/2014 17:30

That's normal. The way to cope is to go to bed earlier. If you are in bed from 7pm until 8pm then in 13 hours somewhere you get our 8 right?

It doesn't last forever.

vet272 · 24/11/2014 17:47

I have 5 birth children. All were breast fed. Early nights and late mornings are not an option

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vet272 · 24/11/2014 17:49

Meant to add this is a foster baby but don't know how to edit my original post

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StarlightMcKenzie · 24/11/2014 18:14

Not sure why early nights aren't an option. I have a big family too with the children close in age. Things have to get left and put on hold for sure but the only thing that would make it a bit more difficult perhaps is if you were a single parent. Are you?

I would expect having older children makes it easier to get more sleep as presumably having that many means by now some of them can feed themselves/each other, find stuff etc.?

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