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Offline Jodileen

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Feeding on Demand
« on: April 26, 2012, 06:52:45 am »
Hi there,

I have a two week old baby and when we got him home first he was on a three/four hour schedule for the past few days his father has been offering him food whenever he looks like he might be remotely hungry - maybe not always hungry. This is bringing the time between feeds to almost two hours. Please can you adivse what i should do?

Is it wrong to make your baby wait a little bit for a feed?
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Re: Feeding on Demand
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2012, 07:46:16 am »
With babies that are very small (congrats by the way ;)) they really need to be fed on demand. Formula fed babies can generally go 3 hours between feeds (4 hours is a bit too long really at this age) but that's not always the case, if it's sooner than 2 hours though you could be mixing up signals. Tiny babies do need more sucking time so if you are happy for him to have a dummy/ paci you can try settling with that first before you feed if it's not long since the last bottle.

How are his day time sleeps?

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Re: Feeding on Demand
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2012, 21:51:17 pm »
Is he draining his bottles?  How much are you offering in each one?
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