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LO taking less and less at DF
« on: August 18, 2007, 18:20:56 pm »
Hi, I have a 5mo whom I've just started solids with and he really LOVES his food.  We are pretty much doing three meals a day of about half and ounce to an ounce of food.  We started doing the DF when we started on EASY, now that we are on solids, i have noticed that for one thing he is starting to take less and less milk at his dreamfeedings.  Whereas he would take around 5oz, he now has taken 2oz three nights in a row.  He takes an average of 20-25oz milk during the day including the DF - but lately has been extremely frustrating with his starting to take only 2oz here and 4oz there - i have read that loads of other mums are experiencing the same sort of probs with lo's around this age so i'm just sticking with it and hope that he outgrows it.
Sorry, getting sidetracked here - should i drop this df if he's only taking a small amount now?
any advice appreciated, thanks
Michelle

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Re: LO taking less and less at DF
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2007, 18:24:18 pm »
Does he wake in the night for any other feeds? 

I guess you could try dropping it and see what happens - if he starts waking again in the night you could just reinstate it.

My LO still chugs away what feels like gallons (I'm BF so not really sure how much she takes!) at her DF  :-[

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Re: LO taking less and less at DF
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2007, 19:00:24 pm »
I think that as long as it doesn't make him wake up at night for food, he's showing you he doesn't need df anymore. observe him for a couple more days and if he doesn't start eating more, I'd drop it completely.
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Re: LO taking less and less at DF
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2007, 21:19:26 pm »
ok, i'll see how we go.  Unfortunately my LO has only slept through the night 3 times in his 5 month life!  I stopped feeding him during the night and early morning once we were established on a good daytime structure (even though our easy goes more like AEAS), I just give him his dummy and he goes back to sleep - he sometimes wakes up every hour, but he has proved to us that he can sleep through so i am not sure why he is waking up; its very frustrating - i've contemplated feeding him again at 2am, but then he was also starting to take less and less at that feed too, so decided to stop it altogether. 
i'll just watch him and if he consistently does this for more than a week then i will look to dropping it altogether.
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Re: LO taking less and less at DF
« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2007, 07:18:58 am »
Michelle - sounds like a plan!  When we get multiple NWs but non-hunger related, it's becuase Katie is overtired - is that possible for you at all? 

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Re: LO taking less and less at DF
« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2007, 16:48:26 pm »
Bryony - yes i do think that Joshua's case could be overtiredness, he is a terrible napper and i have failed to help him extend these naps so that he isn't always tired - the only way i can get him to sleep for longer during the day is if i sleep with him - but that is exactly what we are trying to avoid.  But to be honest i do sometimes do it so that he can get a decent amount of sleep in if he seems overly tired.  He has always been a bad napper, 45mins, sometimes an hour and a half if i'm lucky.  I guess it is something that he will outgrow and I just hope that as time goes on he may become a better sleeper all by himself because there sure isn't anything else i can try to help him.

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Re: LO taking less and less at DF
« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2007, 17:00:42 pm »
Yeah, I have a 45 minute napper too  ::) ::)

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Re: LO taking less and less at DF
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2007, 09:40:28 am »
Bryony - how does your day look then with your 45 minute napper?  I am finding it all over the place sometimes because at times the E ends up being so close to the S.  Sometimes he can't even eat properly because he is tired and fussing all the time.  Another thing that i am forgetting is that at his age he can handle about 2 to 2.5 hours of A time, but that is after being well rested from at least a 2 hour nap isn't it.  So its hardly surprising that he's overtired all of the time.  I just don't know how we will ever overcome this other than him just growing up and not needing naps anymore! 
Just wondered how you manage and if your day has order to it like we all want:)
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Re: LO taking less and less at DF
« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2007, 13:28:56 pm »
Michelle - at 5 mo, Katie's day looked like this:

7am get up and BF
9am nap - she would usually manage 1.5 hr here, and if she woke up I could get her back to sleep. So she would sleep till 10:30 or so
11am BF
12:45 - 1:30 nap
put her in the buggy and go for a walk - she would usually go back to sleep for another 45 mins from 2:15 - 3pm
3pm BF
4:30 catnap till 5:15
7pm bed

So we kind of got the right amount of sleep in, but in 45 mins chunks...!

It's a real pain isn't it though!

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Re: LO taking less and less at DF
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2007, 14:48:41 pm »
It sure is a pain ::)
Thanks for that though, gives me an idea of how to organise our day a bit better :)
I guess eventually when they get older they won't need as many naps and we shouldn't have this problem anymore.
Good luck!!!
Michelle
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