Liz, If he falls back asleep, you could give him an extra thirty minutes (so take him to 3.5
hour feeding schedule), but I wouldn't go more than that.
I gradually got my daughter on the every 4
hour feeding schedule and by just after 3 months sleep has been sleeping through the night.
We've been following babywise since she was a couple weeks old, she's been on a 3
hour feeding schedule that starts at 7a.
Obviously, this is NOT what you are supposed to do but thats what I was doing up until this week when I discovered this is not accurate... One good thing we DID secure since we brought her home was the 3 -
hour feeding schedule (7,10,1,4,7,10 and once in the night whenever she wakes up)... I wound up buying the book and now I know what has to be done the correct way but of course, I still have q's... SO - in regards to keeping up a sleepy baby, how «awake» does she really need to be during feedings?
Is he too young to be on a 3
hour feeding schedule.
After the twins came home from the hospital, we continued with the 3 -
hour feeding schedule (8 feedings a day) that they were on at the NICU.
I had them on a militant 4
hour feeding schedule and that was what my world revolved around.
It was his nurse that insisted I keep to a 4
hour feeding schedule, which is contradictory to breast feeding.
When your twins are very young and under doctor's orders to stay on a 3 -
hour feeding schedule, both twins will need to be woken up to eat at the same time.
Otherwise, during the day he is on a 3
hour feeding schedule.
This is making it really difficult to move to a 3.5
hour feeding schedule and maintain feed / wake / sleep.
At around one month adjusted they are going to move to a 4
hour feeding schedule.
They've been on a 3
hour feeding schedule since birth.
Once they are on a 4
hour feeding schedule we are not going to worry about sleep.
I have her on a 3 - 4
hour feeding schedule (she's been formula fed since 2.5 weeks) and have from the beginning of bottle feeding.
The best - known advocates of parent - led scheduling — author Gary Ezzo and British maternity nurse - turned - childcare expert Gina Ford — say their advice is a middle ground between the strict four -
hour feeding schedules of yesteryear and the on - demand feeding and baby - led schedules of today.
Not exact matches
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You don't have to
schedule middle - of - the - night
feedings, 4 -
hour timetable notwithstanding.
Which do you find is easier, following the baby's lead and pumping around baby's
feeding schedule or setting an alarm and pumping every couple of
hours?
Can you give me an example of what the
schedule should look like with dropping the dream
feed - and then what it should look like after I have dropped the dream
feed and move to the 4
hour schedule.
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.
Son # 2 came home from the hospital already on a great
schedule -
feedings every three
hours, put himself to sleep and was only up twice during the night.
Presently I'm in 3 - 4
hours schedule and it seem that her
feeding decreased to 2 ounces.
My 13 week - old is on a 3
hour schedule and sleeping from the last dream
feed at 10 pm until 7 am, when we wake him up.
But sometimes she will sleep the whole 2
hours and sometimes she wakes up after only an
hour and then I try to settle her down and get her to go back to sleep until her next
scheduled feeding.
I have a boy, almost 10 weeks old at a three
hour schedule and doiing very well, with a consistent morning wake time at 7:30 and dream
feed at 10:30 but still waking twice at night.
Amilia, if it were me, I would either: 1 - go back to a 3
hour schedule 2 - wait to drop the DF until baby could do a full 4
hour schedule 3 - He might be able to go more than 12
hours between
feeds.
I tried adding additional
feeds to follow the babywise
schedule as we have hit 8 weeks and I would like to encourage her to sleep longer at night but she is fighting against it... all
feeds closer than 4
hours she
feeds for 10 mins then becomes fussy and won't
feed so instead of rearranging her
feeds and hopefully dropping the MOTN
feed she just
feeds less more often.
:) So when the heck do you do the 7th
feeding if they are on that 3
hour schedule during the daytime?
from what i am reading, i can
schedule evening
feeds like i do the daytime
feeds — every 2.5 - 3
hours.
She moved herself to a 3.5 to 4
hour schedule, as she would not take a
feeding any sooner than that.
I have a question... I have a two week old that I have to wake up at each 3
hour eating interval and each night he sleeps two 4 or 5
hour sessions... This only allows me to get 7
feedings in and babywise suggests 8
feedings at the very least at this stage - should I go to a strict 2.5
hour schedule all day in order to keep the 8
feedings??
I'm also not sure how to have a 3 1/2 - 4
hour schedule and still get in all the
feedings.
We are on a 3
hour schedule and I am exclusively breast
feeding.
So how do I keep the 3.5
hour schedule without a dream
feed?
My older daughter had dropped her dream
feed and was on a four
hour schedule by now, but she was very predictable and by the book.
I know there a mixed views on if you should drop the dream
feeding first or go to a 4
hour schedule first.
You are already at a 2.5
hour schedule, and you are waking him for those, so you don't need to adjust daily
feeding.
There is actually not a stitch of proof that babies must
feed every three
hours or by any
schedule, but based on such a notion, many babies are being pushed into the breast because three
hours have passed.
Perhaps consider a supplemental
feeding at some point in the 24 -
hour schedule to guarantee that you get a solid block of rest?
If you pay attention to your baby's
feeding cues instead of putting your child on a
schedule, you may find that the baby is hungry every
hour or so for a few
hours, and then he sleeps for a longer stretch.
Especially during the first few weeks, it is usually best to
feed your baby on demand every 1 1/2 to 3
hours and not on a strict
schedule.
(This is why
scheduled feeds with
hours between are linked with a «failure to thrive» condition in the short - term [1] and lower intelligence in the long - term [2].)
Throughout the rest of the day, pump the normal length of time when you would typically pump, ideally replicating baby's
feeding schedule if you are apart or the usual times that you would be pumping (for example, pump for 15 minutes every 3
hours).
But I also don't want to be on a «pumping
schedule» because I want to have at least some milk in my breasts if he is ready to eat so I can try to get him to the breast (he goes anywhere from 3 - 5
hours in between
feedings no matter how much he eats at any one
feeding).
If you want to transition to EPing, I would not offer the breast anymore — I would just bottle
feed her whenever she's hungry and build a
schedule for yourself that works (try pumping every 2 - 3
hours during the day and every 4 at night).
There may be no pattern or
schedule to
feedings, and babies generally
feed more often during the moon
hours versus the sun
hours.
I guess in order to maintain the supply, I will still continue the routine pump
hours but
schedule the midnight
hours just before her
feeding time.
It is the only time where I do nt put her down for a nap in between
feedings (she is on a 3
hour eat / wake / sleep
schedule during the day).
It was important to
feed every 3
hours so for at least the first months or so we probably did set a pretty strict
schedules.