Why is BT 8pm?
You may find that as he starts to take more at each feed that he does go more like 4 hrs 15 mins and this would allow you to shift that last feed closer to 730/745pm if you keep the 8pm BT.
Thanks for the input ladies!
I work week on/week off. And when I do work, my work ends at 7pm so I wanted to be home and be the one to put him to sleep since I dont get to see him the whole day that's why I made bedtime around 8ish. Do you think that's too late for his routine?
Today is the first day we did 4hour EASY, with 2hour A time and 2hour naptime (x2) plus one catnap. So far so good. We'll see tonight how it goes. Keeping my fingers crossed that he will sleep through the night. He has been drinking around 5-6oz today per feeding. Also, I forgot to mention that he is drinking pumped breastmilk exclusively. Do you think he will be able to handle extending his last feed closer to 730ish even if he is drinking breastmilk? Our current EASY goes like this:
7AM E/A
9AM S
11AM E/A
1PM S
3PM E/A
5PM Catnap
6PM A/Bath
7PM E
8PM Bed
11PM DF
I was going over some of the sample schedules in the forum. One was suggesting giving a feed at 630PM instead of 7pm, then doing a top up feed right before bed at 730/8ish. Ill probably try this too if the above EASY doesnt work.
One of the biggest problems we are having is that it is getting difficult for my LO to focus and finish his daytime feeds over the last few weeks since we have started transitioning him from 3hours moving to 4hours. We have been increasing it by 10minute increments since initially, I was having difficulty keeping him awake longer. He eats anywhere between 30mins-45mins, sometimes even 1hour. The first 3oz are usually the fastest and least problematic. But after that, he starts pushing the bottle, sticking out his tongue, blowing raspberries, etc. Makes me think if he is full already after 3oz but he would root still when I check. If we are able to make him focus in a toy or song or any other imaginative thing we can think of, then he would drink 2-3oz more. The top up feeds and dream feeds when he is swaddled are much easier. He is usually done in 15-20mins. Im not sure if these difficulty feeding him is because of the transition or because there is too short of a time in between feeds thats why from 3hour40mins EASY, I decided to just go ahead and jump to 4hour EASY. This is the other reason why I am worried about feeding him one less bottle because Im not sure if he will take an extra oz each meal (to make up for the dropped bottle) thus I keep on going back and forth whether to top him up or not. This difficulty feeding kind of coincided with me going back to work too, leaving him with my MIL the whole day. Right before this, it was mainly me feeding him, with my MIL giving some of his milk as we are getting ready for me to go back to work. Once Ive been back to work and she has been feeding him mainly on the weeks I work, this started happening too so i dont know if this is an additional factor to consider.
