A 4-hour-EASY can't work for most breastfed kids, they only on average take 30-120 ml per feed and a 4-hour-EASY means only five feeds! Many babies would have to drink 160-180 ml per feed to get the calories they need and that is just unrealistic. Happens SOMETIMES, but many women don't store that much BM and many babies don't take that much, as ultrasounds show. But nonetheless, at around 3-5 months, like Tracy said, their napping pattern changes to only 2 or 3 naps a day. You can't just feed on wakeup.
Our day today looked roughly like this:
E: 7am wake up, eat
A: 7-9
E: 9am eat, wind-down
S: 9.30-10.30 nap
E: 10.30 eat
A: 10.30-12.30
E: 12.30 wind-down
S: 1-1.30
E: 1.30
A: 1.30-2.30
E: 2.30 wind-down
S: 3-4
E: 4
A: 4-6
E: 6
bedtime routine
E: 6.30, asleep by 6.45
Now this isn't an ideal day, he sometimes does this, or he has two long naps. Seen as he is not on solids, a normal EASY pattern just wouldn't work for a baby on two naps and an 11 hour day. But basically, we feed before and after sleep and cluster feed at night, then DF at 9 or 10ish. We reduced night waking from 4-5 (reverse cycling, as he wasn't eating enough in the day) to one.
