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do I feed at 3 or 4am? PLEASE help!
« on: March 03, 2006, 16:21:25 pm »
Quick question. My 3 mo old son is about 12 lbs and we are on 3 hour EASY.

He goes down around 6:30 - 7 for the night and gets a DF at around 10.

-When he wakes at 3:30am/4am do I feed him? Or do I put off his feed until he is ready to start his day?

-Also, what time do you think his day should start? 6 - 6:30am?

THANK YOU!!! :(

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Re: do I feed at 3 or 4am? PLEASE help!
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2006, 21:27:40 pm »
im getting my 10 wk old on a 3 hor schedual and i put him down at 8 pm and he usually wakes between 6:30 - 7:30 in the morning although im trying to get him to sleep till 8 in the morning.

if hes taking a full feed at night, feed him, hes hungry.  try to add some oz to the day feed and sbtract from the night feed to get him to sleep through the night if you can. if hes not hungry, then its habitual waking, and you need to put him back to sleep with the aid of a pacifire, or at least half feed on bottle, then pacifire. the next night just pacifire, and the next he will prob. shuffle in his sleep or wake and drift off again. may need pacifire... may not. eventually he may sleep through.
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Re: do I feed at 3 or 4am? PLEASE help!
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2006, 22:02:42 pm »
this is great advice....he does take 3 oz at around 4....and for him this is a "full feed" (hes just a little guy) so I will try and get these oz in to him during the day or during his DF
thanks so much!

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Re: do I feed at 3 or 4am? PLEASE help!
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2006, 22:04:21 pm »
elliotlove
Quick question. My 3 mo old son is about 12 lbs and we are on 3 hour EASY.

He goes down around 6:30 - 7 for the night and gets a DF at around 10.

-When he wakes at 3:30am/4am do I feed him? Or do I put off his feed until he is ready to start his day?

-Also, what time do you think his day should start? 6 - 6:30am?

THANK YOU!!! :(

My experience, was DS was still feeding twice a night at this age (I don't do d/feeds), I would say feed him - he is still young. The way I knew that DS was only waking out of habit was it took me nearly 20 minutes to give him 1oz on 2 consecutive nights, he wasn't hungry!! But he was nearly 5 months at this point. In answer to your question about when to start the day, you chose and stick to it, but bear in mind as Stacy says they can only sleep for so long at that age.
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« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2006, 22:05:52 pm »
this was very helpful...thanks so much....I think he does need that 4am feed, but hopefully we wont start the day until at least 6am.....

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Re: do I feed at 3 or 4am? PLEASE help!
« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2006, 23:44:24 pm »
I'd also say feed him :) he's not doing to badly at all.. Also I'd say the start of day should be about 12hours after sleep or what works for your LO. Hopefully these end up being the same.
He's still pretty young and not that big so he needs the feeds right now :)
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« Reply #6 on: March 04, 2006, 13:53:10 pm »
He is a little guy...thank you! I am hapy with 9 hours of sleep.....just was unsure if I was doing the wrong thing :)

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« Reply #7 on: March 04, 2006, 14:40:26 pm »
not at all :) your doing exactly the right thing
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