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EBF 6 week old

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tryingtobemarrypoppins2 · 09/04/2010 20:12

How often would you expect to be BF??? What sort of feed and sleep routine would you expect??

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DrivenToDistraction · 09/04/2010 20:18

Well, going om my two I'd expect to be feeding about every 2 or 3 hours (sometimes more often, sometimes less often) day and night. I'd expect a patch of cluster feeding in the evening of early morning too.

Sleep was pretty random TBH.

thisisyesterday · 09/04/2010 20:28

at least every 2 hours. possibly a slightly longer stretch at some point during the night, possibly not!

ds2 at that age was waking every 45-90 mins day and night

wouldn't expect any kind of routine, feeding and sleepingg on demand

tryingtobemarrypoppins2 · 09/04/2010 20:47

yep feeds every 2 hours, cat naps in the day. Longer sleep between 7pm-11pm, then every 2 hours feed/sleep/feed/sleep......thank-god for co-sleeping!

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GracieGirl · 09/04/2010 21:13

Don't forget they often have a growth spurt around 6 weeks too, I just stayed in bed most of 3 days!

My DD is 9 weeks old, exclusively breast fed, still has no routine during the day though does sleep longer at night now.

DOn't worry too much about routines unless you need to fit around other children or commitments, they are only young for a short time.

mum2JRC · 10/04/2010 11:36

Fed every 2hours. more frequent in the early evening.
After feeding would probably have a bit of awake time before sleeping and starting the cycle over again.

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