Calling all GF mums!!!

[ames]

Could anyone post the routine for a 10 weeks old baby. I'd be ever so gratefull as we are soon to be moving house and I've packed my copy of he book away an after another absolutly awfull day I'm desperate to try just about anything that might work.

please

ames, this is the summary routine for a bf baby eight - twelve weeks (from the first edition)

Feed times
7.00am
10.45/11.00am
2.00/2.15pm
6.15pm
10.30pm

Expressing at 10.00pm

Nap times between 7.00am and 7.00pm
9.00 - 9.45am
12.00 - 2.00/2.15pm
4.45 - 5.00pm

let me know if you need more detail.

hth.

Thanks bossykate, thats great, you're a star

Ames (or any other GF followers) just interested to know a couple of things as your baby is 10 weeks and you are following GF. Is your baby (sorry not sure if ds or dd) happy to wait until 10.45/11 am for the feed and also do you still do the split feed at 5pm/6.30 pm. My ds is 10 weeks and is doing brilliantly, is in GF routines but the only couple of things he doesn't do per the routines are not being at all happy to wait until 10.45 am, I've tried lying him down under the play gym, sitting him in his chair, carrying him around, hoovering (which sometimes works plus it gets the housework done but usually he cries for his feed as soon as I wake him at around 9.45/10am. Seem to remember dd was like this too. I completely understand the reasoning behind pushing that feed back to 11 am but ds just seems frantic. Also still doing the split feed, I know GF says somewhere in the book that you could drop this once they have been sleeping through from late feet to 7 am for two weeks, so in theory ds should drop this split feed this weekend, but somehow I can't see him waiting until 6.15 pm.
Interested to know if my ds is just a hungry boy or whether other GF babies wait for these feeds?

My (breastfed) DS did exactly the same Melly. He would never wait after his early nap for feeding..he was "programmed" to want feeding the minute he woke up!

I also had to split the evening feed which was fine as he was ok after just the one breast to hold out for the other half after bath! I think was sorted when he was weaned and had tea at 5 and then breastfeed at 6.15.

HTH

Thanks Futurity, it's nice to know ds isn't the only one . Yes, my dd was the same, I split the feed one boob before bath and one after until she was weaned, she was breast fed but unfortunately I couldn't manage breast feeding more than a month with ds. I can't see that continuing the split feed should cause too many problems, I would much rather have him sit happily in his chair after his feed at 5 pm whilst I give dd her tea, than have to rock/walk aroud with him and have a hellish struggle at bathtime because he is frantic for his feed! I'm not sure how I overcame the mid morning feed thing with dd, think she ended up with very early lunch!

I think I could of done with splitting the 6:15pm feed yesterday as ds was great up until this time. He was pacified by the hairdryer(!) whilst I bathed dd but was feeding by 5:45 and asleep by 6 until 7 after which I had to hold him until his feed at 10:30.
He then woke at 3am, I bf him and he cat napped (in my arms) until 6am when he woke screaming had 2oz of a bottle and then slept till 8.
Consequently today has not been at all GF and we're all miserable again