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SLEEP => Night Wakings => Topic started by: Mac Mommy on February 08, 2006, 11:16:54 am
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HELP ???
Our daughter is 7 weeks old, and was very small when born 5lb 8on. She is now 8lbs 13on and 7 weeks old. We offer her the dream feed, she only took one side at 11:30. She is waking every 2 hours to feed. At 1:30, I gave her a full feed plus, a bottle to supplement, so I don't think it's milk supply. She's up every 2 hours still. We've tried the shush and pat, and she doesn't take a soother very well. She has gone up to 4.5 hours at night, but then hit a growth spurt and had problems feeding. Since then, she's been waking every 2 hours from about 11 - 6.
In the day she can go the 3 hours in between feeds
HELP, is she still hungry, and should we be feeding her or what should we do.
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At 7 weeks she's more then likly hungry. I'd say feed her. She's still pretty young and little to go to long without eaing at night.
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Thank you for your reply. I find that if I do feed her, she doesn't take much of a feeding, only a couple of minutes on each breast or less than an ounce from the bottle.
Should I still feed her or try something else? ???
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I'd say still feed her. I didn't stop feeding my LO at night till she was about 10 weeks old. I'd wait till at least then. Then you can introduce a paci, or ven pat shush.
What we did is at 10 weeks we gave her a paci for all but one night feeding (around 3am) and then fed her at the 3am wake up, eventually she started sleeping till three, then right through. It may take a bit more work then that for you, I can't say, we were really lucky, my LO is a great night sleeper.