friz - he's now 14.5 weeks
but he settled down on weds/thurs so was good - even went from 10.30 to 5.30am just grizles for his dummy. dreading the w/e when I go home as he'll prob do the growth spurt then, alhtou we have about 9 bottles of EBM in the freezer so not to worried about feeding.
bella - just had a quick scan and yes ignore the books, feed on demand when baby crys, (and ignore whateva ppl tell u about feeding, u do waht u feel is right for your baby, ignore the has to be on for so long and has to suckle contiunasly) my only advice there is don't use a dummy too early, if u do want to, MIL gave joe one from 3 weeks old and I had no end of trouble with his latch so in the end I copped the needle and stopped it as it was being used to shut him up and drag feeding hims out to 3/4 hours instead of 2.
Baby whisperer works well for us Joey's more or less done it himself, althou i've also kept in mind after feeding we have a little play - when he was first born that was a bottom change and a bit of a chat, then he zonked out, now it's about 10 mins on the play mat, the thing is thou even those things aren't brill - they recon 45 mins feeding 45 mins play 1.5 hours naps - but joey's thing is 20 mins feed, 30 mins play 45 mins nap then feed after 2 hours in the am, then awake for an hour after he's started his feeding, then 2 hour nap (sometimes 2.5) over/around 11am, then feed play sleep for 45 mins and so it goes on! lol. in the early days in the evenings I was feeding every 2 hours from about 4pm till about 8/9. we try to keep a bed time routein well we do keep the routein but not the time - that's out the window, we tried it and it badly back fired so really I think baby will do/settle as and when baby's ready.
anyhbow best get off Joey's about to wake in a bit, and I want to get his toy's out to play - lol, how sad am I a trip to babies r us and i'm happy for hours! lol.