Amie, Jordi is becoming more wakeful in the day. He makes the most extraordinary noises both awake and asleep! On quite a few days he has had one period between feeds where he hasn't gone back to sleep - I've put him in the bouncer a few times so he can look around, and sometimes when he's in the moses basket for part of the time between feeds he's awake but quietish. I was starting to think he was more awake at night too but last night was great - fed him at 10, bed by 11.30, slept till 2, fed again and bed by 3, I woke 5.45. The next phase he didn't settle again so took him onto bed with me about 7.45 and he went to sleep till 9.30ish.
Shanks I've wondered about waking Jordi up in the daytime, but as you say, not sure how you do it. I'm still very much in the mindset from the neonatal unit of he needs his sleep to grow, don't disturb him. Not sure how much longer I should keep thinking like this. It's weird having a premmie cos you never know which bits of his development need to be treated as actual age or adjusted age - is he nine weeks old (which he is today!) or four days old? (which he should have been today).
Amie, I constantly worry about overfeeding Jordi but am trying my best not to - hopeless task I think, you'd probably worry either way. He's now sometimes taking 120ml (4oz) bottles and having most of them - he had three like that yesterday/in the night - but then now, for example, he's had about 70ml and has fallen asleep. My sister has said not to worry and it's better for them to have a bit of weight to lose if they get sick or for when they start moving around, when they do lost weight apparently. If you can do it, I'd urge you to carry on bfing - I'm so envious of those of you with milk of your own. But at the end of the day, you've got to do what is best for you both. Is there maybe a bf support group you can go to locally, just to talk things through with other people (even the sleepless nights!).
Fox, your little Monti is gorgeous! What a great picture - so much hair too! I think he even beats Jordi when he was born.
Jordi's getting much more vocal now, and is also farting like the devil. Is this normal? I wonder if it's because of the formula. He seems to have started doing it much more just in the past few days. Having said he's fallen asleep, he's now squirming away in the basket, so I'd better change him and see if he wants a bit more food. I'm trying to leave a gap between feeding and changing to stop him bringing milk up if possible. I keep wondering where the manual is that should surely come along with the placenta....