They did a study with the babies where they had breast feeding babies and formula fed babies who were sleeping, and they tickled them under their nose with a feather and the breast
feeding babies woke up quite easily where the formula fed babies didn't respond to being tickled with the feather.
Not exact matches
«I
wake up every single day at 6 a.m., and go to the gym, and get my daughter up,
feed my
baby, film all day, sometimes don't finish until 8 or 9 p.m., and that's every single day, six days a week, for five months straight.»
When you
wake up in the middle of the night to
feed your crying
baby, you are sacrificing your sleep out of love.
Baby Smiles started to stir, but The Bug was still asleep, so I was able to
feed him before
waking up the big guy.
Reality: You'll mumble something about making it up to each other when you
wake up on the couch at 11:38 p.m. and you both slink off to bed to catch a few more minutes of rest before the
baby wakes up for his midnight
feeding.
Now we're finally home and this last few nights my frustration level with all this breastfeeding stuff has been escalating significantly, to the point that I dread the moment my wife will
feed our child and when the
feeds take over an hour at 11 pm and we have to
wake up again in about 1.5 to 2 hours my frustration becomes more like rage against both the
baby and my wife.
If you have tried dream
feeding, and
baby still
wakes through the night, it may be that this just isn't right for you and your
baby.
They also suggest the possibility that
baby could become used to
waking for a dream
feeds at the same time each night and we may then miss the window when our
baby may otherwise have slept through the night!
Often you might have to
wake your
baby up for this
feeding.
One post that will help you is called «eat,
wake, sleep cycle» It talks about going as much as 30 minutes after
baby wakes up before
feeding.
My
baby wakes up anytime between 5 - 6 am, but after I
feed her, she goes back to sleep for another 2 hours or so, almost always at 8.
As your
baby gets older ending to dream
feed can actually help the sleep cycle so your
baby can get past the early
wake ups that can be so frustrating.
CHRISTINE STEWART - FITZGERALD: Oh yeah and you know for the dads you know I think I know my husband was kind of the
baby whisperer so you know lots of times they're
waking up at 3 am and we'd
feed them and they still need that sort of consoling and patting...
Granted many
babies (especially newborns)
wake up crying because they are hungry, but once you
feed your
baby, she should be a happy
baby.
My
baby drifts peacefully off the sleep during a
feeding, but he often
wakes up when his bib is removed.
Newborn
babies wake up several times to
feed in the night.
You
feed the
baby right before you go to bed, but you don't try to
wake baby up, you just
feed and then put right back down.
Or you could do a
feeding at 10 pm and then let your
baby sleep until she
wakes or until the five hour mark of 3 am (which ever comes first).
Once a
baby is swaddle in a comfortable blanket parents can let them sleep until they
wake themselves up for
feeding or diaper change.
Crystal, Not all
babies sleep until the next
feeding — lots
wake up earlier.
However, it is very important to make sure that with a newborn, a
baby that is not gaining the proper amount of weight, or if you are having any issues with maintaining your milk supply, that you
wake your
baby for
feedings.
Wake that
baby up and
feed him.
For example, if you dreamfeed at 11 PM, your
baby may not
wake up for the next
feed until 2 AM.
I just know that BW suggests that you don't eliminate the dream
feed until after the
baby is successfully sleeping through the night until the desired
wake time.
For example, let's say your
baby falls asleep in the evening at 9 PM,
wakes to
feed at 1 AM, and then
wakes to
feed again at 4.30 AM.
If you
feed a
baby before sleeping, she will ask for help to fall asleep every time she
wakes up during the night.
When you have a
baby who was
waking twice a night to
feed until she was 6 months, and you say «oh, this is really not too bad» but then they suddenly start
waking more often until they
wake up EVERY single hour EVERY single night.
Since you
feed at 9, I wouldn't recommend doing one after that other than when
baby wakes on his own.
My 4 1/2 week old
baby is a slow feeder, and it sometimes, with getting him latched, winded, and latched again, we've been
feeding for 40 minutes... When should I start to count the
wake time?
I have read in a number of your posts that
feeding a
baby at a consistent time each morning helps that
baby learn to
wake at the
feeding time.
I just
feed in the night when the
baby wakes.
So, consider moving both the
feeding and sleeping schedule (as if it were daylight savings time one more time) to help your
baby wake up later.
On other posts you mention not dropping the dream
feed until
baby sleeps from dream
feed until morning
wake up time.
JENNA CONKLIN: Yeah, and with my son, he had those waterfall throw ups so I knew in the morning when I
woke up, that was when I most engorged and so if he
woke up first, and was screaming or if I
feed him, he was just going to go throw up, so I really needed to pump some out, but then it was just so hard to be setting up my pumping getting started and wait five minutes and then what do I do with him while he's screaming and it's hard to hold the
baby and pump at the same time.
She is six months old and I had been nursing and rocking her to sleep until then (oops) but I was going crazy with her
waking up for
feedings at 1 am and 4 am so that is why we started letting her CIO and started the
baby wise routine.
Some
babies will continue to
wake for a
feed every three hours, while others will sleep through the night.
How I would be able to balance going to sleep late after work and
waking up during the middle of the night to
feed my
baby.
«They should
feed every three to four hours every day and night, so always
wake your
baby for
feeding if he or she's sleeping through the night.»
While
babies will, of course,
wake up during the night wanting to be
fed for a long while, this shouldn't get to be excessive.
Now, a good scenario would be that of your
baby waking up in the middle of the night all dry and you have to do is
feed them and have them back to sleep in no time.
Some moms also find they can pump less at work if they
feed baby more overnight or
wake to pump at night, too,» Gourley says.
Waking a
baby is not on demand, and I always
fed my babes as soon as they awoke (but like littlecindy, my kids never slept long).
If your
baby wakes up often and if you have the energy to think long - term, take some time to try making your
baby go to sleep without
feeding, by giving him or her a pacifier, rocking gently or whatever you would do at daytime to make your child fall asleep.
And if your
baby is very young, or having problems gaining weight, you shouldn't go too long without
feeding, even if it means
waking your
baby.
If your
baby doesn't
wake to
feed at least every 3 hours, go ahead and remind him to eat.
Your aunt may advise, «Never
wake a sleeping
baby» but the nurse tells you «
Feed your
baby at least every 3 hours.»
This means getting your
baby to sleep through the night without
waking up hungry and in need of a
feed.
Babies usually
wake to
feed, then stay awake for some interaction.
This means that the
baby guides his or her own
feeding schedule,
waking up when hungry and taking as much breast milk or formula as he wishes.