It is better to stop the night breastfeed last if your child reacts strongly to the idea of giving up
her feed at bedtime.
You will just make sleep problems more likely if you continue to
feed him at bedtime.
«One thing you should not do is give the bottle right before bed,» suggests Patton, «because this can lead to dental caries in the long run if the habit of
feeding at bedtime begins.»
Resist those suggestions to give extra
feedings at bedtime.
Not exact matches
Start tag teaming the night duty with the goal of you both getting 4 hours
at a stretch: should be twice nightly
feeds soon (down from 3 now) in addition to the
bedtime and wake - up
feeds.
I would say I was relatively flexible with her, because I was desperate to find what was best for her but still kept it pretty scheduled (for example: experimenting with changing wake times or
bedtimes, tweaking the
bedtime routine, adding / removing dream
feeds and cluster
feeds, etc.) She started sleeping longer stretches pretty early and
at 3 months I could count on getting a 6 - 7 hour stretch, but every once in a while she'd go 8 - 10 hours without a
feeding.
So I
feed him
at 6 or 6:30, and try to implement a
bedtime routine.
If we do not do the DF,
at what age should he be be able to go from
bedtime to 7 am without a
feeding?
My 9 week old daughter has her
bedtime feed at 8.
Mt 12 week old is on a 4 hr schedule: 6, 10, 2, 6 (then
bedtime @ 7 pm), and dream
feed at 10.
He eats 5oz of breastmilk mixed with 3tsp of rice cereal
at 5:30, 8, 11, 2, 5, then
bedtime, so I know he's getting enough calories during the day to drop the dream
feed... I also have to wake him up for the dream
feed, and he's been sleeping til 5:30 - 6 for
at least 3 weeks... is it too soon to drop the dream
feed, or could he really be ready?
Just as
at bedtime, try to do things to help baby settle in like reading a special book, having a
feeding and turning down lights and TV.
Her current schedule is
feedings at 6 am, 9:30, 1:00, 4:30, and 7 pm and she sleeps / naps from 6 to 7 am, 10:30 to 12:30, 3:00 to 4:00, and 5:00 to 5:30 when I pick her up from daycare, then
bedtime is 8 pm.
I hate
feeding her when she can
feed herself, letting her eat while walking around, making a special meal, threatening no dessert / no nursing
at bedtime, etc., but to me it is the lesser of two evils.
When my three year old
fed the fish every container of fish food all
at once and the twenty nine gallon aquarium needed to have all of its water cleaned and replaced
at bedtime.
A restless
bedtime can come from difficulty settling, problems with
feeding right before bed, stress from crying it out techniques or simply lots of energy and activity going on
at home in the evening.
as my milk supply decreased, we dropped
feedings until i was only nursing her
at bedtime.
I agree, I would put my daughter down around 9:30 for
bedtime at 5 weeks and then do a dream
feed around 11:00.
Now, for the last five days, we've been on a strict 3 hour schedule starting
at 8 am: 8, 11, 2, 5, 8, then start
bedtime routine
at 930 and
feed last bottle
at 10 pm, then put down for night
at around 1030.
7:00 wake and eat 8:15 nap 9:45 wake and eat 11:15 nap 12:45 wake and eat 2:15 nap 4:00 wake and eat 6:00
bedtime 1 - 2 MOTN
feeds The last wake time is a bit too long, so I let him sleep longer to help shift things
at the end of the day.
The problem I run into here is that if I
feed him
at 4 pm and then do an early
bedtime routine, I would be
feeding him again
at 6 or 6:30 as a part of his
bedtime routine, but since its so close to his last
feeding, he often doesn't eat well.
You could start with a
bedtime routine: bath,
feed, sing / cuddle and sleep
at the same time each evening.
I breastfeed and bottle
feed but
at night before her
bedtime i give her a bottle with a little cereal mixed in but she still wants me to breastfeed her to sleep no matter what and will continue to wake a few times
at night wanting my breast she is already five months old, it has gotten to a point where she relies only on my breast to sleep all the time.
By now your baby is probably sleeping 12 hours
at night, broken up by around two
feeds between their
bedtime and getting - up time.
Also, we do our
bedtime routine
at 7 with a bath, eat (about 8 pm when he done bathing and eating) and he supposed to go to sleep but he always is wide awake and won; t sleep until after his next
feeding at 10 - 10:30 pm.
I still
feed D and she'll be 3 in Feb, I cut her down to just morning and
bedtime feed at 2.5 because I (shamefully?!)
Self - soothing,
bedtime routines, night wakings,
feeding and weaning
at night, naps and schedules — all are covered.
Because he is bigger and drinks more
at his
bedtime feed he's slept for much longer stretches much earlier than she did — including going though the night quite often.
It went really well given that she was already used to being bottle
fed by daddy, she had already begun drinking liquids from her own sippy cup, and I had gotten her down to just nursing
at night before
bedtime.
We are still on atleast 4
feeds a day and normally in the morning and
at bedtime Alex will
feed from both sides.
I started to cut down the
feedings gradually until it was mainly
at nap time and
bedtime.
One hundred six infants were randomly assigned to begin
bedtime cereal
feeding (1 tablespoon per ounce in a bottle)
at 5 weeks or
at 4 months of age.
«If he falls asleep
at your breast during his
bedtime feeding, for example, arouse him enough that his eyes are open when you place him in the crib.»
The problem lies in the fact that she started self - weaning
at 8 months (pushing me away and crying when I tried to
feed during the day — she still breastfed
at bedtime and in the morning, sometimes I could sneak one in if she was tired enough before her nap!).
You might eliminate one daytime
feeding at first, but continue morning and
bedtime feedings.
I pump in the morning before work,
feed baby
at lunch, and pump again sometime between when I get home from work and
bedtime.
Now they fall asleep in their crib for naps and
at bedtime and don't need to be rocked or
fed overnight.
The
feedings at nap times or
bedtime are often the ones they rely on for comfort, so those are usually the last to go.
So staggered
bedtime is a must, and bathing and
feeding at the same time can help, but I'm still not sure how to get that half hour of peace to nurse baby without leaving big baby unsupervised.
Simethicone should only be administered orally — usually
at bedtime and after
feeds.
Now his on soya milk until his 1 years old then I will transfers him to cows milk, he willingly drinks more milk 1 in the morning, 3 pm snack
at bedtime and sometimes
at midnight or he just sleeps right through, which is bliss for me lol my problem is my breasts don't feel empty but not engorged which is very strange because with my first daughter I only breast
fed for 3 weeks and it dried up within a few days.
And finally, question # 3: It is to my understaning that initially I should be giving her 2 «
bedtimes» - in other words, I should give her the 7:00 pm
feeding and then
at 8:30 «officially» put her to bed and then give her a potential dream
feed at 10:00.
I
feed him
at 7 -10-1-4-1830 after this
feeding Bedtime routine e down for the night.
Establishing
bedtime and
feeding time routines is vital right now if you do not want to spend the rest of the year waking up
at night just to entertain a very alert baby.
8 am waketime: nurse 9:30 - 11 / 11:30: nap 1 11:30: nurse 1pm - 2:30: nap 2 2:30 nurse 3:45 - 4:30: nap 3 4:45: nurse «snack» 6:30 / 6:45 bottle of formula * very very hungry
at this
feeding (I pump a little later to build a stash) 7 pm
bedtime 11:15 pm I wake him for DF 5:30 am he wakes to nurse (eats for a good 15 minutes) 8 am waketime (sometimes I wake him sometimes he's up 7:30 - hard to say) How do I start?
Once she has been
fed at 7 pm (or earlier depending on how things go) we follow her
bedtime routine and she goes down for the night.
Our schedule is: 6 am waketime and
feeding, back to sleep until about 8:30 9:15
feeding 12:30
feeding 3:45
feeding 7:00
feeding and
bedtime I put him on a 3 hr 15 min schedule to that I could have his
bedtime at 7 pm
Naps and
bedtimes do not have to be
at the exact same time because then you aren't reading sleep cues and
feeding cues.
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I put my baby for
bedtime at 730 pm... To perform babywise i must wake him after that for
feed him until 11 pm?