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Offline dksmummy

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First Feed of The Day
« on: September 18, 2012, 17:29:14 pm »
Hi,
My DD is 5mo and has recently transitioned to a four hour easy.  I am doing a dream feed and one feed in the middle of the night.  She wakes up at different times so I am assuming it is hunger.  I have not tried weaning her from this feeding yet.  I am finding that some of her night feedings are happening quite late and as a result I don't think she is always that hungry when she wakes up.  Do I just feed her at 7 anyway or wait and feed her when it has been four hours since her night feed?  When I do wait (eg. 4am then 8am feed) if completely throws our EASY plan out the window for the day. 

Do I try and drop the night feed?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

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Re: First Feed of The Day
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2012, 18:45:13 pm »
Many BF LOs will carry on having a NF for a good while.  Personally, I'd give the feed at 4am and then offer again at 7am and see what happens and then follow LO's cues from there.
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Re: First Feed of The Day
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2012, 19:17:48 pm »
We had this on and off for ages - I just kept offering a feed at wake-up and again half an hour later if she wasn't particularly interested to start with.  It sorted itself out in the end :D
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Re: First Feed of The Day
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2012, 20:48:36 pm »
Agree with PPs.  Also, if you're finding that feed gets stuck in the early AM hours (which is perfectly normal BTW) you might try to give a shortened feed so as to preserve the WU feed. 
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Re: First Feed of The Day
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2012, 19:12:45 pm »
Thank you for the helpful suggestions!  I will feed her when she wakes up and go from there!
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