ok here's our schedule:
7:30 bedtime (i nurse at this time both sides maybe 15, much of which are sleepy and probably inefficient?)
10:30 df (also bf for a good 8 or so min., usually one side because other side does not make lots of milk and ds gets frustrated and fidgety which might wake him?)
he has been waking once only (HUGE MILESTONE) @ around 3-4 o'clock in the a.m. (i bf for a good 6-8 min.)
wakes up for the day @ 7:30
i give ff@ 8:00, followed by activity and morning nap @ 9:00
usually sleeps 1 hr.
(today is the first day that he took almost entire 5 oz bottle @ morning ff so perhaps i will see how long we can go...prior to this morning and last couple days schedule has us feeding every 3 hr. max with 3-4 oz. ff)
so next feed would be bf (i alternate ff and bf during day/ 3 bottles max.) it looks like:
nurse @ 11:00ish ( i figure 2.5 hr. after a nursing)
so...ff @ 1:30ish
nurse @ 4:30ish (if we make the 3 hrs. after a ff, we sometimes do and sometimes don't)
last ff for the day @ 6:30 (sort of a cluster feed)
top off with breast @ 7:30 for bedtime
he doesn't seem content for long after a nursing...feels like when he was a newborn and i was constantly wondering if he had enough, should i top off an hour later b4 nap just in case, etc. etc.
one thing i have realized from the bottle feeding forum is that he may need a 15 min. break in between a bottle...have been doing that in just the last few days and noticed him eagerly finishing bottles after the little rest) that is tricky though because if you wait longer than 15 min. next thing you know you're topping him off an hour later and then your feed schedule is really off! it is SOOO confusing to combination feed.
one of my other main worries is that because i'm lopsided and he's over 12 lb.s (around 13) is that i don't really have two sides to offer and so there may not be enough? ALSO, he is sooo fidgety on the breast, kicking legs, pinching boob, bobbing on and off, etc. hats off to you ladies who bf these BIG babies, i admire you all greatly
i think this is everything i meant to say? sorry, i'm positively incapable of short posts.