do you all count dream feeds over night as sleeping through the night, if LO doesn’t actually wake up? or do you could those as wakes. just curious to see how other people think of night sleep. my LO dream feeds 3 times over night and is wide awake at 7am, i still count the feeds as wakes. lmk!
my baby is nonstop scream crying with no consoling. he’s not hungry, wont sleep, doesn’t stop when i pick him up and idk what to do. i am so stressed and tired and my anxiety is killing me
I’m flying for the first time this week with my baby and I am definitely overthinking and over planning everything pumping and bottle related. Any tips to simplify and ease traveling and pumping? What to bring/ not to bring???
my plan is to bring a bottle prewarmed (good for 2 hours) in the car and feeding him when we get to the airport. and on the 1.5 hour drive pump twice, so i have enough for a full bottle (good for 4 hours) and then bring my portable bottle warmer with a broken up frozen bag of milk (stays cold for HOURS) to give LO at the feed after my fresh pumped bottle. does this sound like a good plan??
so my LO is bottle fed as i am exclusively pumping. a month or so ago he was eating 4.5 oz per feeding leaving like a half an ounce in the bottle. here’s his old schedule and where im confused:
\-wake up from a nap
\-not be hungry right away, so eat like 15 minutes after waking
\-eats 4 ish ounces (leaves a .5-1 oz in the bottle)
\-wake window or 1.5-2 hours
\-nap routine
\-he finishes the rest from the bottle
\-goes down for a nap
now consistently he’s only eating 2 ounces at a time. so instead of eating 4 ounces and leaving 1, he’s eating 2 leaving 2. we’re on a weird schedule of feeding and he’s eating every 2.5 hour or less. i’m so tired from waking up every 2-2.5 hours and trying to balance a what seems to be constantly hungry and tired baby. i know it’s not cluster feeding, i just don’t know how to get him back on a normal feeding schedule and eating most of his bottle at one time. should i be trying to skip one of the “finish the rest of his bottle feedings and have him be more hungry when he wakes up from his nap? i feel like im making it more difficult on myself because somehow i created a schedule of “eating less more often” and i think thats why hes waking up so much and is so cranky.
how do i fix this??
anyone who’s done though something similar please help!!!
so my LO is bottle fed as i am exclusively pumping. a month or so ago he was eating 4.5 oz per feeding leaving like a half an ounce in the bottle. here’s his old schedule and where im confused:
-wake up from a nap
-not be hungry right away, so eat like 15 minutes after waking
-eats 4 ish ounces (leaves a .5-1 oz in the bottle)
-wake window or 1.5-2 hours
-nap routine
-he finishes the rest from the bottle
-goes down for a nap
now consistently he’s only eating 2 ounces at a time. so instead of eating 4 ounces and leaving 1, he’s eating 2 leaving 2. we’re on a weird schedule of feeding and he’s eating every 2.5 hour or less. i’m so tired from waking up every 2-2.5 hours and trying to balance a what seems to be constantly hungry and tired baby. i know it’s not cluster feeding, i just don’t know how to get him back on a normal feeding schedule and eating most of his bottle at one time. should i be trying to skip one of the “finish the rest of his bottle feedings and have him be more hungry when he wakes up from his nap? i feel like im making it more difficult on myself because somehow i created a schedule of “eating less more often” and i think thats why hes waking up so much and is so cranky.
how do i fix this??
anyone who’s done though something similar please help!!!