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Topic: did you wake them or let them sleep? Posted: 27 February 2008 at 10:22pm |
Following on from the Doco thread just out of curiosity who woke thier baby for feeds and who let them sleep?
I woke them. in fact with kobe we had to wake him, guess all to do with the prem thing but at the start he just slept all the time we had heaps of trouble getting him to wake to feed and he would just sleep through feeds.
The 4 hour routine worked so well with him we just carried it on with addison although we were a little more relaxed.
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Posted: 27 February 2008 at 10:31pm |
never woke ella to feed her....i swear by our routine...she has slept 12 hours solid since about three months (if not earlier) hardly any wake ups unless sick!
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Posted: 27 February 2008 at 10:37pm |
I didn't watch the doco, but I woke Lauren every 3 hours as she had jaundice and would have slept for days on end!
She now sleeps through from 8pm till around 6am, so I am happy!
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Posted: 27 February 2008 at 10:38pm |
I'm sooooo jealous Bombshell! Lucas still wakes 1-3times per night for breastfeed! He won't nod off unless he has titty as well!
I've always left him to sleep for as long as he wants unless he is sick like BS mentioned above.
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Posted: 27 February 2008 at 11:00pm |
We had to wake Jack as he was jaundice and also wouldn't feed in the early days, so he was on 3 hourly. I don't wake him anymore though, he pretty much goes 3-4hours unless its a hot day and he wants more milk for thirst. Give him a dreamfeed at night and he sleeps right through till 4.30am at 7 weeks old! Not bad I reckon!
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Posted: 28 February 2008 at 12:01am |
To begin with I had to wake Josh as he was a jaundice, but after that was sorted I let him wake himself.
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Posted: 28 February 2008 at 12:20am |
Both of mine woke themselves 2-3 hourly to feed in the early months.
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Posted: 28 February 2008 at 12:23am |
Mine to Mel. Ive never had a problem with a baby sleeping thru feeds (damn it)!! My kids all LOVED their boobie too much
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Posted: 28 February 2008 at 4:56am |
Prem babies here too so was waking them every 3 hours for feeds. Aoife came home at 1.6kgs so her weight gain was important.
Also the neonatal unit run 3 hourly routines so we came home with routined babies.
And I think demand feeding twins would just be a recipe for disaster
We're at 4 hourly routine now as this gives me more time to rest and allows for extra time to top up the baby that's going through the growth spurt
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Posted: 28 February 2008 at 6:28am |
I let Ollie wake when he was ready to feed. In saying that he was fine at birth (not prem, no jaundice etc), had great weight gains and fed regularly anyway so there was no need for it.
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Posted: 28 February 2008 at 7:17am |
I let him sleep, but then he only ever fed 2-2.5 hourly of his own accord so I was definitely not gonna encourage feeding more frequently than that. On a couple of rare occasions when he has had a mammoth afternoon sleep I would wake him once it got to between 4-5 hours since his last feed. (but that probably only happened once or twice).
I would definitely be for having a routine and waking if I had twins though, demand feeding one is ok with two I think it would be impossible.
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Posted: 28 February 2008 at 7:28am |
I was told to wake Charlotte every 3 hours, what a mission, she just wanted to sleep!
I will NOT do that with any more we may have. They do tend to come into their own reutine eventually.
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Posted: 28 February 2008 at 7:49am |
Paige woke 3 hourly.
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Posted: 28 February 2008 at 7:51am |
McKayla the first week put herself into a 3 hour feeding schedule and 4 hourly at night. Then the second week she changed to 2 hours during day and still 4 hours during night. Then third week it was 4 hours during the day and 4 hours at night. She repeated this until six weeks and then at the seventh week it was 3 hours day and 4 hours night.
She never went over that but I will wake them up every 5 hours if I had a child that actually slept during the day. At night I wont wake up unless I feel they didnt have enough and worried about weight ect.
I demand fed and will do that with the next one as well.
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Posted: 28 February 2008 at 8:57am |
I have routine fed both my girls. Pretty much 3 hourly during the day - I wake them - but leave them to it at night. Greer only wakes twice at night and I'm sure its cos she is getting lots of milk during the day so doesnt need it at night. Hannah was sleeping 12 hours by 10 weeks and I put that down to our routine as well.
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Posted: 28 February 2008 at 9:02am |
Luke would feed every 2 - 2.5 hours he would wake for a feed. Sometimes if he didn't afer 3 -4 hours I would wake him. Depending on the day and how well his day was going.!!!
Mum2lucas i know what u mean Luke has woken at night to be BF. He used to sleep through from 3 months he used to do 6pm - 6am then that all changed at 5 months.
Now have got him into only waking 1 time usually at 4 or 5am. He now sleeps from 7pm to 4 am heaps better than waking up to 8 times a night to feed. Can u believe it !!!!  Little monkey! But now we are on the right track, he's sleeping better and so is the whole household.
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Posted: 28 February 2008 at 9:07am |
Sam had jaundice and born with very low blood sugars so we had to wake him for feeds. Now he goes to bed at 6.30pm, we still give him a quick feed at 10.30pm and then he sleeps till 7am at the earliest.
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Posted: 28 February 2008 at 9:25am |
i dont wake...although EVERYONE tells me i should.. and he was getting more good nights than bad(where he would sleep 3 hours at a time) though we have had two bad ones so far but he is only 4 weeks..i will continue to just let him find his own routine until about 6-8 weeks then will see how we go... he sleeps anywhere from 2-4.5 hours during the day.. if i wake him(tried it twice) he sleeps much worse at night) babies..they are all so different!!!:(
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Posted: 28 February 2008 at 11:23am |
I let Jack do his own thing an he slept terribly.
I woke Caprece 3 hourly and she slept terribly.
Some babies are just bad sleepers no matter what you do.
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Posted: 28 February 2008 at 12:02pm |
I woke Hannah 3hrly during the day. At night let her sleep. She was a good sleeper as a baby. (Terrible as a toddler but that's another story!)
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