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Feeding Schedule and Sleep Help for Mom with 8 Week Old Infant + Toddler?
Sep 25, 2009 ... I have a very active 3 year old boy and a 8 week old baby. ... with a cluster feeding before bedtime and a long stretch following. .... So with that I would suggest pumping while feeding your baby from the other brease ...
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- A., Check out my website at www.help4newmoms.com, there's a free downloadable baby schedule that should get you started. Good luck, C. Doylestown, PA
- Hang in there! It will get easier. I have a 2 year old {VERY active} little boy and a almost 4 month old infant, who is exclusively breastfeed. The unpredictable feedi...
- My best advice it to stick with it. You are doing the greatest thing by BFing. I would encourage you to look up www.kellymom.com a great feeding website with tons of t...
10 Month Old Still Not Sleeping Thru the Night
This will meet the babies need to suck on the bottle for a little bit while .... The other thing that seemed to help my guy was cluster feeding in the ...
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- I worked pretty hard at weaning my 11 month old off night feedings for the last couple of months. But, if she's very tiny that may not be an option. On the other han...
- Hi I have a 9 1/2 month ols son he is still getting up 2 times a night and the ped said that he should not be, he was very little when he was born 2.8lb and you woul...
- My little girl was small too AND she liked to eat at night too. One trick I tried was to feed her before she went to bed (8 or so), then one of us would go in before ...
All Ways Hungry
Consider using a slowflow nipple with a wide base and dragging out the feeding so it's not gobbled too quickly Many breastfed babies do what's calledcluster ...
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- I breastfeed my daughter every 1-2 hours until she was 2 months, then she could go longer. I didn't give her rice cereal until she was almost 6 months.
- Hi B.. Are you breastfeeding or bottle feeding? If you are breastfeeding, I went through the exact same thing. My daughter just ate a lot and she really thrived. P...
- That's ridiculous, I can't believe a nurse would tell you that. Feed him, he's 2 weeks old. My daughter ate every 1.5-2 hrs for a while before she caught up with her...
Frequency of Nursing a 5-Month Old
Actually while I hate to out and out contradict peopleMost babies were born .... a bit difficult especially during the cluster feeding they go through when ...
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- My kids were eating 6 jars of baby food and drinking 32 - 40 oz of fluids a day by that age. I kept them on a 4 hour schedule and used a pacifier so they could get the...
- Hi J., You've got a lot of good stuff here! It just occurred to me, though, could he be tired instead of hungry? An easy and fun read is The Baby Whisperer. It...
- J., It would be my advice ( having breastfed 2 so far and about to do it again) that your son is either using you for a pacifire or it is habit for him, either way ...
Feeding "Schedule"
At your baby's age it recommends 4-6 feedings a day. Basically the schedule they advocate is this: feeding, waketime, naptime, repeat until nighttime, ...
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- People can share their schedules, but every nursing relationship is different--every baby is different. Every mom's milk is different. How often and how long your bab...
- My 6 1/2 month old girl started to get very distracted at about 5 months. I find that it's easier for us to nurse right when she wakes. Sometimes I even leave the li...
- I'm the same way - I need a schedule to maintain my sanity as a mother, and I think that children thrive when they know what to expect during the day. I've used Babywi...
When to Give Baby Cereal?
You should however try cluster feeding in the evenings...say you want your baby to go to bed at 11pm and sleep 6-7 hours, then at 7 give a bottle, ...
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- My baby also had reflux and we started adding rice cereal to her bottle at about 6 weeks. She did not do well with the rice so we changed to oatmeal cereal and that s...
- at 8 weeks old you shouldnt expect him to sleep through the night yet. every 4-5 hours is normal for his age. i wouldnt give him cereal until he was at least 3 1/2 to ...
- From one reflux mom to another, don't do it unless your pediatrician recommends it. If he's already on AR formula he needs nothing else. The fact that it will make t...
My Newborn Is Awake All Night
When my son was about 5 weeks old I started cluster feeding him in the .... Baby Wise is another really good book on developing a schedule for your baby. ...
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- My son did this for about three weeks. I just made sure that we had lights and the TV or radio on, and the blinds open during the day, and tried to make him play a lit...
- Please DO NOT follow the advice to follow Baby Wise. It could wreak havoc on your milk supply (since you are breastfeeding). My daughter was the same way for the f...
- Baby Wise is another really good book on developing a schedule for your baby. --it helps in understanding how to approach your baby in general as well.
Oversupply of Milk/Forceful Letdown
... an oversupply of milk and forceful letdown. My baby coughs and chokes during feedings and gets hiccups and spits up..." ... Advice on Cluster Feeding ...
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- This is simple to take care of. Pump some off before putting her on. That way she has to work a little for it and shouldn't have to gulp down the milk which causes t...
- I had the same problem. I'm a first time mom with a nine week old son. DON"T PUMP...It took a few weeks but my body finally adjusted to the supply my son needed. I w...
- I had this with both my babies and I would put a folded burp cloth (I have the baby diaper types Gerber used to make, with the thick part in the middle) under their he...
Baby Still Feeding Several Times Through the Night
... taking advise from a book that said to try and "tank up" with several cluster feedings in the ..... When to Stop Feeding Baby During Middle of the Night ...
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- 4 1/2 months is still very young and it's common for a baby that age to still be eating at night. However, she doesn't need to, maybe just once. You'll have to try to ...
- you should try feeding her during the day and letting her sleep in her crib...then try it at night...I started letting my son sleep on his belly around 3 1/2 months..a...
- Dear B. K. Now, stop saying that you have lots of tattoos, you have them, so just don't think that you have to tell people. I am sure that they are beautiful. In ...
4 Month Old Who Just Doesn't Want to Sleep
Have you tried cluster feeding at night to fill your baby up before bed? Good luck! :). Helpful? Yes | No Save This Remove This Report This Share ...
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- I would ask the peds about eating through the night but we had the same trouble with our now 7 month old son! He would only sleep with me! I stopped feeding in the mid...
- I wouldn't wake him up to feed him. Our daughter is almost 4 months and is sleeping 6-8 hours at night. I am also breastfeeding and if I can get in a really good fee...
- Welcome to life with an infant! I too thought my baby should be sleeping, at the very least, 6-7 hours straight by that age. Well, she is 13.5 months old now and she i...
