My little Thomas was born two weeks ago.
I've been doing EASY since we brought him home, and he's doing amazingly well with it. I think he'll be an angel baby - such a blessing with my incredibly high maintenance spirited toddler!
Here are my questions from the first weeks:
Morning. What time do I start giving awake time after a feed? Is there a certain time,, like 7 am? Whenever the sun is up? 12 hours after bed time? He tends to take a feed at 5 or 5:30, so I'm always conflicted since it's 6 when he's done and the sun is out, but I'm going back to bed. This morning he finished at 5:30 and I put him down, but I think he slept poorly because he needed A time.
Afternoon: He often eats around 2, and then I'm confused about the cluster feeds. Do I feed him at 5, 7, 9? 4, 6, 8?
Night: The dream feed doesn't seem to be going well. I've tried both breast and a pumped bottle. I have to wake him up quite a bit too get him to take enough milk, and then he still wakes 3 hours from the start of the feed, almost on the dot, and does that all night. I don't mind if he's just not old enough to go a longer stretch (he's 7 lb 5 oz now), but last night I was up late and he went from 8 to 12 and I woke him at 12. So maybe if I didn't DF he would do a longer stretch?