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What to do?
« on: November 01, 2007, 17:18:02 pm »
Hi!

My 7.5 month old twins are moving into a new EASY phase and I'm not sure how to proceed. They are able to stay awake three hours+ now, but if they are on a four hour feed, they sometimes wake early from their nap. I think it's hunger. So what do I do?

No typical days yet, but here's an example
6am Wake and E
7:00 Solids - just 1/4 piece of bread with smashed banana
9:00 S
10:30/11:00 (sometimes earlier) E Bottle
12:00 Lunch
2:00 S
4:00ish Bottle
5:00 dinner
5:30, bath, bottle, book, bed by 6:00/6:30

Is this fine/normal? Am I making a mountain out of a molehill?

Oh, I forgot, one twin is a refluxer, so that bottle is kind of a joke. She won't sit down to drink her bottle very politely. It usually takes thirty minutes of wrangling to get her to drink 3 oz. And that's if I'm lucky. Sometimes have to give her a wee snack (20 cc) before her nap to make sure she can sleep through.

Thanks!

Lu
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Re: What to do?
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2007, 18:56:09 pm »
Lu - I'm no EASY expert, but that routine looks pretty good....I"m wondering the same as you though, on 4 hr EASY, how does that work when they stay up for 3 hrs but nap longer than 1 hr????  Abby doesn't stay up 3 hrs yet, so I'm not at that point, but I"m interested to see what kind of feedback you get.....Do they take a full feed at 4ish and 5:30?

btw - this seems like such a "normal" post for you  ;)  I was anticipating your more usual humorous posts  ;D ;D
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Re: What to do?
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2007, 19:19:20 pm »
Hey gals, we went through this pretty recently and this was the feedback I got:
https://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=104119.0

What I have done now is basically split her 3rd bottle of the day - she gets half before the nap (or more) and whatever she doesn't take before she finishes after the nap.  That way she isn't waking hungry from the nap.  Not sure if that is exactly BW "textbook" but it works for us!!  HTH!
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Re: What to do?
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2007, 22:04:31 pm »
Quote from: deckchariot on November 01, 2007, 18:56:09 pm

btw - this seems like such a "normal" post for you  ;)  I was anticipating your more usual humorous posts  ;D ;D

I know I can hardly believe it myself!  :o

Hey, no need to scare everyone right off the bat. I want them to creep onto my web and then BAM hit them with the humor. I spin the web of fun.

 ;D

Proceed with caution....

Vadensmommy - I think I kind of do that with a little snack before the nap and then the regular bottle after. They might not take as much, but it's their overall daily calories, right?  8)

Lu
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Re: What to do?
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2007, 00:01:35 am »
Lu, that's what I was doing when Lil started to stay awake longer.  I gave her a little before and then after (breast though - got to be a prop, but that was my fault.....).  Still do it sometimes.  The whole 4 hr feedings can start to go out the window at this age, esp with solids added in.   
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Re: What to do?
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2007, 01:48:42 am »
I found that once dd could stay awake longer than 3 hrs our routine was basically EAEAS.  EAS naturally becomes EAEAS or AEAES as your los grow older.  The meal that gets split in 2 b/c of a nap is usually the lunch meal.  BTW I found that by feeding just b/f her naps she was able to sleep for at least 2-2.5 hrs as she didn't wake up b/c of hunger.  HTH
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Re: What to do?
« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2007, 01:56:42 am »
Overall calories - yes,
and no NW - those two things are the key aren't they!!!!
Today dd took like 2 bottles for the "3rd" bottle - almost a whole one before the nap and almost another whole one after, and STILL took her whole 7oz pm bottle and a really good supper - just went through a GS.  Have fun with all this A time!!!
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Re: What to do?
« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2007, 03:20:15 am »
It was interesting to read all these replies...  I've just let Marina sleep through the 3:00 feed until she wakes up.  Sometimes she will go 5 hrs between feeds in the afternoon  and then 3 hrs until the last feed of the day. 

I clearly do something completely different.  :D
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Re: What to do?
« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2007, 04:38:26 am »
Alissa, that's what eventually happens.  I found L was waking from hunger so I fed half before half after, but then with her increase in food etc, and her tolerance for not waking if hungry, means that somedays it's 5.5hrs between milk feeds.  I would certainly only recomned to feed before if they are def waking from hunger ie: try it first!!!
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Re: What to do?
« Reply #9 on: November 02, 2007, 13:09:26 pm »
ok, interesting....I've noticed that Abby is not waking from her afternoon nap to eat, but them I'm thinking  how long do I let her sleep???  So maybe textbook mommy needs to flex on the 4 hr EASY  ;)  I like the EAEAS bit, that's helpful....

and Lu - I'm soooooooo in your web already girl!
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