I have a 5w5d Ds, we've been doing 3 hr easy for about two weeks. I am getting ready to go back to work in 10 days, so we're trying I'm going to be focusing on wake time and bedtime. I noticed all the schedules/examples given in the books start at 7am. Our days are going to be starting at 6. Ideally it would look like this
E-6am (BF)
A-6:30-7:15
S-7:15-9
E-9(BOTTLE)
A-930-1015
S-1015-12
E-12(BOTTLE)
A-1230-115
S-115-3
E-3(BF)
and that is as far as I know
BC then begins cluster feeds and dream feeds. Currently we don't have a very consistent morning and evening. So my questions
1. How many hours should be "daytime" so if we wake up at 6, and he sleeps 4.5 hour while I'm at work, how should our evenings look like, and when is bedtime?
2. So far when I try dfing, it doesn't work. Ds wont take it. Our timing has been cluster af 5&7, then DF @10. But he wont take it. Usually during the day we're pushing it to go 3 hrs between feeds, should I try going four hours between last daytime feed and the DF?
3. Here is how I think it should look for Oour evenings:
E-3
A-330-4
Cluster-4
Catnaps 430-515
Cluster-515
A-bedtime routine-515-6
S-bedtime-6
Df-between 9&10
I know DF should be done between 10&11, but if Ds starts his day an hour earlier than the schedules in the book, shouldn't his DF be an hour earlier as well?
So if that is our tentative plan, he'll sleep 5.25 hours during the day, and have 12 hours of night
we'll have 1-2 night feedings(I'm hoping one bf around 2) so that'll be 8 feedings in 24 hours.