New to Easy, would love it to be EASY in all sense and purpose...Help PLease

[wct]

AAAHH! another night of baby daughter wanting to be fed every 2 hours. I expect she doesn't need the milk but I have always given her breast, which has probably got me where I am now! But 1st time mum so learning all the time! D eats 3 meals a day plus snacks and breast offered as a top up to meals + morning and bedtime feed. Any body suggest an EASY routine that would help me begin to get my sleep back?

[amayzie]

Hi Hon,

First of all- how old is your LO? This will impact the best approach to your EASY..

[wct]

Oops! that would have been good to post in the first place. She is 7 and a half months and quite a small baby only weighing 6.5kg.

[amayzie]

Ok! Its funny the things you can forget to mention!!

At 7 months you are looking at having 2 naps in the day and 3-3.5 hours A time between the naps. Generally you would be feeding after every nap, and at bed time- so i think 4 feeds is what people are generally on at 7 months. I'm not sure how 3 feeds will be impacting the night wakings- but the A time and too many naps may. How much A time is he doing at the moment?

[wct]

Thanks for your reply. I have increased activity time, decreased naps to two, one at 10 and one about 2 and tried four milk feeds today, morning, evening and a feed after each nap, so will see how tonight goes. She was very tired so she was in bed by 5.45 but this should be ok as I go to work tomorrow and will need to be up at 6 to get us all ready. I also moved her last meal forward so that she was still alert and hungry for a good feed of milk before bed.
Having said all this last night was better (only 3 wake ups), we did give her teething gel as I thought I could see a white fleck of one of her top teeth coming through which may have been the underling issue. Regardless of this it is nice to get a routine for the day and night together.Before all this I was trying to get her to nap 2 - 2.5 hours after wake up, which may have been why getting her to nap has been quite difficult too.
x

[amayzie]

Let me know how you go!

[wct]

I think its to do with day feeds. yesterday I was at work and left Lola with my mum and some expressed milk in a bottle. I forgot to tell my mum to put it in a cup as Lola doesn't like the bottle and so she didn't have any, although she did eat and have water throughout the day, so she didn't starve! and as a result she was up every 2 hours or so last night wanting a feed. So will get expressing and remind my mum about the cup next Tuesday, and in the mean time continue with four feeds and 2 naps and hope tonight is better.
Thanks
x

[amayzie]

Ugh!!