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Re: needing more daytime milk?
« Reply #15 on: August 18, 2011, 06:12:08 am »
hmm. each night she seems to be waking earlier for the first feed. We did not manage to df her as she woke at 10.15pm (4oz), 2am (4oz) and then 5.30am (3.oz)

I think the 3am is more that she was wet through and not exactly starving.

She normally takes 5-6 oz at a feed so if she is taking 4oz at night is that ok? I just want to make sure it is ok to be feeding her this much and not cause bad habits....what do you think?




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Re: needing more daytime milk?
« Reply #16 on: August 18, 2011, 06:16:30 am »
I do wonder if during the day I need to move her to more of a 3.5 feeding routine rather than 3. Problem is if she short naps which she often does sometimes I end up feeding even earlier so more like 2.5 otherwise she will get really OT.




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Re: needing more daytime milk?
« Reply #17 on: August 18, 2011, 12:16:59 pm »
so we have upped the bottles to 7oz. This am she drank 6.5oz 2 hours after having 3oz and she was crying for milk 2.5 hours after having that and is now drinking her way through the next 7oz!!!!




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Re: needing more daytime milk?
« Reply #18 on: August 18, 2011, 12:23:43 pm »
How long has this been going on for now? It could still be a growth spurt. How is she during feeds - is she feeding calmly? What flow teats do you have her on now?

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Re: needing more daytime milk?
« Reply #19 on: August 18, 2011, 17:30:33 pm »
WOW!  that's a hungry girl ;)  Must be a GS.  My DD did last a good week of crazy feeding for the 3 month one... and again at 4 months.



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Re: needing more daytime milk?
« Reply #20 on: August 18, 2011, 18:04:22 pm »
she is on the slowest teat still. This is the fifth day since things started going weird. We had 2 nights with just one feed but strange days, one of which she needed an extra feed and all terrible naps and then the last two nights have been 3 feeds. Today she has drank 27 oz of milk which with night feeds last night totals 38oz.

Annoyingly after guzzling all day she went to bed after just 3 oz so probably in for a rough night!




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Re: needing more daytime milk?
« Reply #21 on: August 18, 2011, 22:14:59 pm »
That's totally a GS!  My 9 month old just had a 38 oz day - teething and refused solids ;)



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Re: needing more daytime milk?
« Reply #22 on: August 19, 2011, 05:47:41 am »
thanks Kara.

Well we introduced a df last night and she went from 10.30pm-5am which was great. Maybe we are over the worst of it!?




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Re: needing more daytime milk?
« Reply #23 on: August 19, 2011, 07:26:20 am »
Annoyingly after guzzling all day she went to bed after just 3 oz so probably in for a rough night!
My kids were very, very like this Becky. Ok, I don't KNOW how much they took but we'd go from 2 hr or even 1.5 hrs between feeds and then by the end of the day they'd be so whacked that they'd not be interested at all in feeding at bedtime and then take a great DF and have a great night. And that would be it, GS over for the next time.

Hoping this is what is was. A stretch like that does everyone so much good xxx


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Re: needing more daytime milk?
« Reply #24 on: August 20, 2011, 08:09:11 am »
back to 3 night feeds :(

DH did a df at 10.30pm and then it was 1.30am and 4.30am and up for the day at 7am.

She took 2 x 5oz and 1 x 4oz so not exactly comfort sucking!

This is going on a long time for a GS. We are off on holiday for a week so I guess I will continue the df and see if it starts to help.




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Re: needing more daytime milk?
« Reply #25 on: August 20, 2011, 10:06:36 am »
I would keep the DF for a couple of weeks or so and see if it helps, it can take a while to adjust to it. My two were useless at the DF and if they did actually take anything they woke more often afterwards so we stopped it and just let them wake when they were hungry.

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