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Offline Briony

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« on: March 29, 2006, 14:40:35 pm »
Hi I had the book through pregnancy but have only just started folowing the easy routine for a week,I was just wondering if ds wakes up between 4.40 and 5.30 which is when he does I feed him and put him back to sleep which he does but for the last few days I have woken him at 7.00 to start the day which means some days there is only an hour and a half between feeds,it does work well but just wondering if it is right to carry on like this. His routine has followed like this
 Eat 7.00
 Activity 7.30-830
 Sleep 8.30-10.
This carries on till 19.00 when I feed bath massage bed and he is asleep at eight dream feed at 22.30
 By the way he is 9 weeks old
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Re: Early waking
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2006, 18:03:48 pm »
Are you BF or Bottle feeding?
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Re: Early waking
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2006, 18:30:24 pm »
He is breastfeeding
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Re: Early waking
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2006, 21:04:43 pm »
If it works well then I think you shouldn't feel like you have to change anything! At 9 weeks old you still need to be very flexible and you should do what works. Nothing is set in concrete. I would say get the calories in when your supply is at its best (early morning). Sounds great to me ( not that I would have been volunteering to get up at 7 am when more of a lie-in might have been an option!)
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Re: Early waking
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2006, 08:40:09 am »
Yes I agree! Leave it well alone you might make things worse if you try and change things and the chances are that in a few weeks it will have all changed around again  :)
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Re: Early waking
« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2006, 08:49:16 am »
I think it's fine like that... If you want him to sleep through completely soon, try to (I said that so often now... LOL, I should have it saved somwhere) understimulate and be extremely boring at night-time. No light, no eye-contact, no talking, no nappy change, nothing. Just a quick feed and then back to bed awake. After a while he won't (if you are lucky) wake up anymore, because it's not "worth it" and just sleep through. Worked with our LO...

Another thing that worked for us: Give him milk from a bottle at night (best is expressed milk). Breastfeeding itself at night can be so nice for a baby that he wakes up just to have the comfort of the breast. Psychologically and developmentally there is nothing wrong with that, it's just very knackering for the mum.... DH can also take over and do some nightfeeds, that would make you feel better.

Good luck and well done getting as far as you did already!
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