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Offline caoimhe mum

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Re: thinking about giving up.....
« Reply #30 on: April 10, 2012, 08:27:47 am »
 I just feel like I need 1 part of our routine to fall into place and then everything else will have a chance to come right.....
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 i totally agree with you about this, since i have found that other people have the same problem regards the feeding then maybe its the sleeping we need to sort out and have confidence in ourselves that they are getting enough at the five mins. 

you are really lucky that your little one is taking a bottle
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Re: thinking about giving up.....
« Reply #31 on: April 10, 2012, 20:15:47 pm »
I would think that you are more likely to have success with sorting the feeding out and then hoping the sleep falls into place - it is definitely the case that once one is sorted then the other often works out too, but you have much more control over the feeding than the sleep.
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Re: thinking about giving up.....
« Reply #32 on: April 10, 2012, 20:25:29 pm »
Quote from: clazzat on April 10, 2012, 20:15:47 pm
but you have much more control over the feeding than the sleep.

I'm not sure I know how hun - today was a classic example - 3 x 45 minute naps, feeds would have fallen during each of them, but if I fed before I put her down, she would have been fed at 2.5 hours ish.

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Re: thinking about giving up.....
« Reply #33 on: April 10, 2012, 20:35:35 pm »
With my 3 they would have been okay to wait until after the nap (assuming that you have reached a 3 hour easy) - our feed times were basically fixed unless there was some big reason not to be. So feeds were at 7, 10, 1, 4, 6.30 (because there was no keeping them awake any longer!), and sleeps were roughly 8.30, 11.30, 3.30. I must confess mine never did so well with shortening a times after short naps, so maybe if that had worked for them then I would have had more trouble getting the feeds fixed.
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Re: thinking about giving up.....
« Reply #34 on: April 10, 2012, 20:38:23 pm »
This may sound crazy, but have you tried throwing EASY out the window for a few days? It was some of the best advice given to me and that's how we discovered that E fed best before she slept. So we ended up with an AESY and it worked.

It was a complete 'let myself off of the hook for a few days' in terms of routine and there were a few feeds where I attempted and she would have none of it. Then we got our groove

Just a thought.
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Re: thinking about giving up.....
« Reply #35 on: April 10, 2012, 20:56:39 pm »
Vikki - we don't really have an EASY anyway - I don't see how you can we short naps. I have a post running on the EASY boards, maybe you guys could jump over there and see what you think?

http://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=228443.0

But that did occur to me today  - I'm open to all suggestions!
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Re: thinking about giving up.....
« Reply #36 on: April 10, 2012, 21:02:18 pm »
One thing that I did do with x quite often was to feed at 10 and 10.30/11 and then he would last until 2 for his next feed - would that help with Beth's routine?
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Re: thinking about giving up.....
« Reply #37 on: April 10, 2012, 21:10:29 pm »
Quote from: clazzat on April 10, 2012, 21:02:18 pm
would that help with Beth's routine?

Maybe if we had one!! Honestly we just stumble through each day - from awake time, we just do a cycle of 2 - 3 hours A time, 45 minute sleeps, and I fit feeds in and around as I can or need to to get through naps.
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Re: thinking about giving up.....
« Reply #38 on: May 02, 2012, 19:45:19 pm »
Back again girls - I think we're on wind down. But I just wanted to say thanks for getting us this far and ask a few questions.

I'm still feeling  need to top her up during the day plus she's going to be going to the childminders a few days a week now, so my plan is to drop the 2 daytime feeds and switch to a bottle. Then I'll feed both sides at 6, and still top her off with a bottle at BT. And keep any NFs and first morning feed as BFs. Do you think that would work - I seem to remember that you could drop feeds and keep some?

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Re: thinking about giving up.....
« Reply #39 on: May 02, 2012, 19:48:34 pm »
Yep, with N from 7 months on I would BF her morning and evening only, she would get bottles in between and it worked great until she was 10 months, I was back to work, stress kicked in and my supply dried up.  But until then it was great and my body adapted super well to just having those two feeds.

Good luck!
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Re: thinking about giving up.....
« Reply #40 on: May 02, 2012, 20:03:00 pm »
Sounds ok to me - if that works for your family and you're settled with that decision :)
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Re: thinking about giving up.....
« Reply #41 on: May 03, 2012, 02:18:57 am »
I had Katie on just morning and BT bfs from about 7-8 months on and it worked well for us until an awful stomach virus killed my supply completely.  So yes, it should work ok.  :)
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Re: thinking about giving up.....
« Reply #42 on: May 03, 2012, 03:43:38 am »
*hugs* H!  I think that's a great plan :)
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Re: thinking about giving up.....
« Reply #43 on: May 03, 2012, 14:19:55 pm »
That's what I did with Sophie, just morning, bedtime and pumped at night for DF in a bottle.  I did that until she was 1 (no DF pumping after about 7 months).
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