Hello again
Since my last post Sienna has hit a GS!! So goodbye my beauty sleep and hello exhaustion
EVERY 2 hrs last night she was feeding and it was most definitely hunger!! All day today she has been the same!!! Now she is tucked up in bed and fast asleep, I'm planning an early night myself, which will sound funny to most of you as I'm posting this while your all getting up...Except the Aussie and NZ contingency :wink:
Naomi,
10 mins sounds okay to me as far as a feed time goes if Riley is lasting 3 hrs in between...My feed times are max 10mins, majority of the time around 6mins and I was really worried for awhile about this. I've figured out the reason they are so much shorter than with my #1 ds is that my breasts(they are well trained Bfed ds 18months until I got pregnant with dd) are really efficient at letting that milk flow :oops: For that reason we struggled with a very windy Si, the poor thing swallowed a lot of air in the early days. She keeps up now though and actually complains rather vocally if my letdown takes a couple of seconds longer that usual.
You also mentioned PU/PD in your earlier post, there is a heap of great information on the boards about it, if you are going to start, being confident and calm while you go through the process helps alot, those little bubs can really tune in to your vibes
Erin,
I found that watching the clock really helped me in the early days with Sienna as far as when to put her in her crib for her naps, ie going through the 4 steps outlined in Tracys book as part of her wind down...Sometimes Sienna would even seem fine with no obvious signs of tiredness, but if she had been up for 1hr when 3mths as an example, I just went ahead and settled her in her crib and she would then fall asleep relatively easily(you see she was tired after all). What makes Tracys BW book so helpful is that when you have them on E.A.S.Y you can work out tiredness etc before they just collapse with exhaustion.
If they put up a bit of a protest while you are doing wind down, it is a normal/natural behaviour while they are still learning how to go to sleep. Some babies will cry every time, its just there way of winding down their nervous system.
After they get used to the wind down pattern they settle faster.
Sienna sometimes starts fussing when I draw the curtains in her room(she knows what that means
) but as soon as her head hits the pillow, she has her fingers in and falls fast asleep very quickly without much assistance from me, she knows the drill
already.
Consistency with naptimes and nights is the key to a baby that continues to sleep well as they get older. The hard work put in during this age really pays off later on, I have proof of that in my ds.
Keep up the hard work
Take care
Bianca