Hi all, I am new to this post, but it looks comforting to have other mothers to chat with. Alex is 7 weeks on Wednesday, he was born March 30. I also have 2 other boys, 5 and 3. So far Alex seems to be a spirited baby. He has had 2 growthspurts already, more than doubling his weight in just under 2 months. Its difficult to settle him to sleep, but lately I've found that swaddling him (using the aussie swaddle), holding him until he feels heavy, and then laying him down works wonders. He puts himself to sleep at almost every nap. Tanya, I bought one of your blankets from your website, very cute and very practical!!! I loved the instructions for the swaddle you sent with it. We use it for every nap and bedtime!!!
Days are going great. We operate on a 3 hour EASY most times. Sometimes 2.5 hours. He eats for about 20-25 minutes on both sides (he's breastfed) and then has activity for about 5-10 minutes in the afternoon and about 45 minutes in the morning and evening. He seems to like the longer naps between 11 and 4.
Nighttime is getting there. We lay him down around 7-8 and he sleeps until 12:30. He eats and then will wake up again at 4:30. Sometimes he will get up at 3, but after that last feed he usually sleeps until 6-7 and then he's up for the morning. We don't dreamfeed because we, too, go to bed at about 9. I'm thinking of doing one at 9 anyways though...any thoughts? We have a couple of rogue nights where he will eat an then be awake for about an hour afterwards. I dread those times!!! Its so hard to settle him then. I usually have my husband get up with him, but I think he's the reason he wake back up after just 20 minutes. I think he needs to be settled more and I'm the only one that takes the time to do that.
Just out of curiosity, for those breastfeeders, about how much breastmilk do you get when you express? I'm going to try a yeild this morning to see and I wanted something to compare it to.
Good to meet you all, Jamie