Most nurses didn't know how to show new mothers what to do (my daughter had jaundice so she would barely try and would
sleep through feedings if allowed).
If she tends to
sleep through feedings, wake her up.
This is especially challenging in the evenings, when you'll likely
sleep through feedings.
Yet during the day, she will
sleep through feedings until the 3.5 hour mark.
They pretty much
sleep through this feeding.
So, if your baby
sleeps through a feeding during the day, you may produce more milk that night.
But, if your child is not showing signs of hunger and
sleeping through feedings or she's constantly hungry for days, she may not be getting enough breast milk.
As stated in La Leche League (2003) the following are signs of dehydration in your baby, «listlessness and
sleeping through feeding times, lethargy, weak cry, skin loses its resilience, dry mouth, dry eyes, less than the usual amount of tears, minimal urine output (less then two wet nappies in a twenty four hour period), the fontanel on baby's head is sunken and fever» (p. 335).
There are plenty of good reasons to pump milk: because you're separated from your baby (or are planning to be); because your baby
slept through a feeding or didn't / couldn't nurse for whatever reason and your breasts are uncomfortable; and so forth.
He had been
sleeping through his feedings and growing increasingly lethargic from lack of nourishment; Jackie Fagan says her pediatrician's office shrugged off her concerns but told her «I could bring the baby in...
You may need to wake your baby every three hours or so if she's
sleeping through a feeding.
As stated in La Leche League (2003) the following are signs of dehydration in your baby, «listlessness and
sleeping through feeding times, lethargy, weak cry, skin loses its resilience, dry mouth, dry eyes, less than the usual amount of tears, minimal urine output (less than two wet nappies in a twenty four hour period), the fontanel on baby's head is sunken and fever» (p. 335).
If your baby is listless, fussy, or
sleeping through feedings this could be a sign that they are dehydrated, according to Parents.
Not exact matches
The app also lets parents record their baby's growth and development
through trackers for
feeding and nursing,
sleep, diaper changes, and height and weight.
I'm not filming
sleep, nudity, watching movies, reading or checking social media
feeds or private messages but basically everything else is getting rolled on so there may be scrutiny from others who might scrub
through the archives and I judge me in the future for something that happened in the past.
I shouldn't have been so surprised to recognize God when I gloated over
sleeping children or nursed
through cluster
feeds or washed soiled sheets in the middle of the night or clapped until my fingers tingled over Christmas carols in school gyms or read aloud childish stories printed on construction paper or welcomed friends for sleepovers.
I'm cherishing every moment in a way I just couldn't with my first as I tried to come to terms with the huge responsibility having a baby was, while not
sleeping well, and crying
through every painful
feeding..
Sophie Giordano, author of The Baby
Sleep Solution, feels that dream feeds interfere with a baby's natural sleep rhythms and will therefore not be successful at helping them to sleep thr
Sleep Solution, feels that dream
feeds interfere with a baby's natural
sleep rhythms and will therefore not be successful at helping them to sleep thr
sleep rhythms and will therefore not be successful at helping them to
sleep thr
sleep through.
# 6 — Throw your nighttime
feeding schedule out the window: By the first time we went camping with our son, he was happily
sleeping through the night at home.
The goal should be 4 hours of straight
sleep for both of you, with you taking a round of
feeding, burping, diapering at night so mom can
sleep through.
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!
Nighttime
feedings cause
sleep deprivation which makes everything worse; try to work it out so both you and mom get one 4 - hour stretch of
sleep with each of you taking a shift the other one
sleeps through.
Mom gets to
sleep through one
feeding / diaper change.
I've been waking him up for a dream
feed around 11:00 in hopes that he'll
sleep through the night, but he seems to be waking between 4:30 and 5:00 every mornign.
I wake her for the midnight
feeding, she
sleeps through most of it and then immediately goes back to her bassinet.
So I did a small dream
feed (only 2 oz) last light and he
slept through until 7 am.
Her
feeding gets better as the day goes on and she
sleeps through the night (although is starting to wake up at 4 am but will eventually go back to
sleep if we give her a soother).
She should also be
feeding him regularly throughout the night, instead of teaching the baby to
sleep through it.
(She does
sleep through occasionally in cluster of 3 or 4 nights but it's been over 2 weeks now since she has...) I don't mind
feeding her as I don't work now and she goes right to
sleep after nursing for 15 minutes... but all I hear «out there» is I MUST reduce her night
feeds so I feel very intense external pressure.
We stopped doing the dream
feed when my son was about 3 months old because he still was not
sleeping through to the morning despite the dream
feed and I finally decided that I'd rather go to bed when he does and get as much
sleep as I can before his early morning
feeding, instead of setting an alarm or staying up till 10 or 11.
Sleeping through the night is a developmental milestone that is unrelated to
feeding.
Lastly - I am confused because in Babywise it says to do 7
feedings a day but it's also saying to do the dreamfeed to get them to
sleep through the night.
I think he doesn't need to
feed in the night but have no idea how to get some
sleep and try to push him
through to at least 6 from the dream
feed.
Anyways, my question is... should I drop the dream
feed now, since I don't see him
sleeping through the night anytime soon, or should I wait till he is
sleeping through?
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.
We added the dream
feed back, and they are
sleeping through the night again.
My baby is nearly 4 months old, I still
feed every 3 hours as he is not
sleeping through the night.
BW says they just eventually
sleep through the night, but did we wreck that by not having a dream
feed to begin with?
The first is to the
feeding schedule I've used for my kids (and at least one of them certainly did NOT
sleep through the night when 9 months old).
My baby
slept through the night at 9 weeks and we did cluster
feeding (4 and then 6 pm) until she was around 4 months I think.
So, I am not sure if I should consider dropping this
feed now or just wait till he
sleeps through the night?
2) He still seems tired at 6 am (yawning
through feeding) so I put him back down and he'll
sleep through till 8 am or so, which is when I start my day.
Should I wake her again around 10 pm and
feed her to ensure she
sleeps through the night or is she really hungry?
You can also see these posts for ideas: Baby Whisperer:
Sleeping Through the Night: http://babywisemom.blogspot.com/2008/09/baby-whisperer-
sleeping-
through-night.html Early Morning
Feedings Before Waketime: http://babywisemom.blogspot.com/2008/01/early-morning-
feedings-before-waketime.html and Nighttime
Sleep Issues: http://babywisemom.blogspot.com/2008/01/nightime-
sleep-issues.html
I should mention I am not overly tired since it is really only one night
feed but I'd love to get her to
sleep through that 2:30
feeding.
If you find you are looking for ideas to help give baby that extra bit she needs to
sleep through the night, cluster
feeding just might be your answer!
The benefit is when they first go 7 - 8 hours from the last
feeding, they are going
through your night
sleep.
When your husband is exhausted by a punishing work schedule and complains that «all you do is sit there and
feed the baby,» or your mother questions whether you have enough milk because little John is still not
sleeping through, or someone tells you that you shouldn't feel tired — hinting at a lack of fitness or will.
Her
feeding got better and she would easily have 40 min
feeds or 5oz every 3 hours and started
sleeping through the night.
When babies are artificially put into deeper
sleep through formula -
feeding and the sensory isolation of a separate room, McKenna says, they not only are deprived of this close interaction and its attendant physical and emotional benefits, but the risk of SIDS rises.