We had a breakthrough with the bottle tonight. My husband was feeding it to her and realized that she did better when it was really warm. He rewarmed it a couple of times and she did much better. It was a long process and involved a lot of crying but I'm feeling hopeful that we are on the right track. We used the Munchkin Latch bottle. We have Dr. Brown bottles from our first so I'm hoping we can reuse those but I'll happily buy a Munchkin set if that's what she will take!
Not until August and also just PT from home, so it's not urgent and we can work around it if necessary since LO will be around 6 months when I do start work and also I will be there. Hopefully some of her feeding will have consolidated by then!
Post by rachelilly23 on May 28, 2016 9:23:18 GMT -5
If LO STTN, how often are they nursing during the day? K sleeps 8-9 hours but eats every 1.5-2 hours. I feel like I get nothing done. She eats more often now than she did as a newborn. It took me 2 hours to get all my groceries yesterday with her poopsplosion and then needing to nurse! I had my almost 6 year old with me too, but still...
ETA: 8-9 hours for the first stretch, eats, back to sleep for 3 or so. Her naps are usually only an hour, but she will sometimes do 2-3 hours.
If LO STTN, how often are they nursing during the day? K sleeps 8-9 hours but eats every 1.5-2 hours. I feel like I get nothing done. She eats more often now than she did as a newborn. It took me 2 hours to get all my groceries yesterday with her poopsplosion and then needing to nurse! I had my almost 6 year old with me too, but still...
ETA: 8-9 hours for the first stretch, eats, back to sleep for 3 or so. Her naps are usually only an hour, but she will sometimes do 2-3 hours.
Identical over here, to the last word. She sleeps from 8-2 or 8-4, eats, goes back to sleep until 7 or 8. Then feeds every 1.5-2 hours all day.
It is definitely intense, but it also makes perfect sense to me, since they say they still need to eat 8 times in a 24 hour period. If only one feeding happens in the 12 hours of nighttime sleep, she has to fit her other 7 feedings into the 12 hours of daytime.
I'm just glad I finished work so I'm home with her for the summer until August! When I first went back, it was hard because she started eating at least twice a night, but then once she got used to me being back at work and started STTN again more, it was hard pumping enough at work to keep up with her frequent feeds and only being home to actually breastfeed her for a few of them.
Parenting just always has its challenges no matter what I guess! I am appreciating the 6-hour stretch of sleep though. =)
If LO STTN, how often are they nursing during the day? K sleeps 8-9 hours but eats every 1.5-2 hours. I feel like I get nothing done. She eats more often now than she did as a newborn. It took me 2 hours to get all my groceries yesterday with her poopsplosion and then needing to nurse! I had my almost 6 year old with me too, but still...
ETA: 8-9 hours for the first stretch, eats, back to sleep for 3 or so. Her naps are usually only an hour, but she will sometimes do 2-3 hours.
My LO does not STTN and still eats that frequently...
If LO STTN, how often are they nursing during the day? K sleeps 8-9 hours but eats every 1.5-2 hours. I feel like I get nothing done. She eats more often now than she did as a newborn. It took me 2 hours to get all my groceries yesterday with her poopsplosion and then needing to nurse! I had my almost 6 year old with me too, but still...
ETA: 8-9 hours for the first stretch, eats, back to sleep for 3 or so. Her naps are usually only an hour, but she will sometimes do 2-3 hours.
My LO does not STTN and still eats that frequently...
Oh man. I thought I remember you guys doing every 3 hours.
My LO does not STTN and still eats that frequently...
Oh man. I thought I remember you guys doing every 3 hours.
She generally does at least 1 2.5-3 hr stretch during the day. She totally can do more... If we are out or busy she will do more but when we are home alone it's much more frequent. I have stopped tracking it though it makes it feel like less. Over night 2-3 hrs for not her long stretch. Part of it is she hits a wall with playing and nursing is easier than endlessly bouncing/walking etc... Especially if H isn't here to help me distract her. It's more like she wants to nurse than she needs to, if that makes sense.
Oh man. I thought I remember you guys doing every 3 hours.
She generally does at least 1 2.5-3 hr stretch during the day. She totally can do more... If we are out or busy she will do more but when we are home alone it's much more frequent. I have stopped tracking it though it makes it feel like less. Over night 2-3 hrs for not her long stretch. Part of it is she hits a wall with playing and nursing is easier than endlessly bouncing/walking etc... Especially if H isn't here to help me distract her. It's more like she wants to nurse than she needs to, if that makes sense.
The nursing is easier than anything else is us too. I feel like it's just easier to pop her on a boob than try to find something else to make her happy. But if anyone else is holding her they can usually keep her happy by bouncing, singing, or walking. But I'm gonna use what I've got to keep her happy!
If LO STTN, how often are they nursing during the day? K sleeps 8-9 hours but eats every 1.5-2 hours. I feel like I get nothing done. She eats more often now than she did as a newborn. It took me 2 hours to get all my groceries yesterday with her poopsplosion and then needing to nurse! I had my almost 6 year old with me too, but still...
ETA: 8-9 hours for the first stretch, eats, back to sleep for 3 or so. Her naps are usually only an hour, but she will sometimes do 2-3 hours.
This is J too. While it does make it hard to do anything, I'd rather feed her more often during the day than have her sleep for shorter periods at night. Depending on what's going on, her long stretch is sometimes only five hours but has been as long as eight. More often it's 6 to 7 hours.
jewel441 My almost 8mo niece still doesn't STTN. She also won't sleep anywhere but in the bed with them, and they have definitely tried. I think you're doing great!
J goes about 70-90 minutes on average during the day between feedings right now. Sometimes I get longer stretches of 2 hours but never more than 3. She's just starting to sleep a little more at night.
H always retorts during the days he's home when I say "she's hungry; I'll make her a bottle" that "she just ate". Umm welcome to my world, dude. She's a baby; she eats all the time.
Sometimes he argues (amongst her crying) that there is no possible way she's hungry. Then I pop a bottle in her mouth and she's happy. And he says "ohhh I guess she was hungry after all."
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Post by xxkimmy8xx on May 30, 2016 14:50:02 GMT -5
My pedi said to do 3 hours between feeds never less (E is FF) bc of his reflux.... this could be why I can't get longer than a 4 hour stretch overnight.
Does anyone have experience with a nursing strike? Since last night C has been very restless at the boob. She pops off every 20'seconds or so and then screams and is hard to relatch. She has taken a bottle twice just fine. Anyone have advice for me? It's been a very long day.
Does anyone have experience with a nursing strike? Since last night C has been very restless at the boob. She pops off every 20'seconds or so and then screams and is hard to relatch. She has taken a bottle twice just fine. Anyone have advice for me? It's been a very long day.
DS1 went on a nursing strike around three months old that lasted for a whole month. I could nurse him standing up, or near running water, or latch him on his sleep, but any other time and he'd get really mad. I was working so he got bottles during the day...it was stressful. I got to a point where if he refused to nurse when I offered I would just cheerfully say, okay, we'll try later, then do something else. It was like when I stopped stressing so did he. We went on to nurse until he was 19 mos old.
They are miserable, but I think it's unusual to have one last as long as his did. But definitely try a dream feed....
Does anyone have experience with a nursing strike? Since last night C has been very restless at the boob. She pops off every 20'seconds or so and then screams and is hard to relatch. She has taken a bottle twice just fine. Anyone have advice for me? It's been a very long day.
Does anyone have experience with a nursing strike? Since last night C has been very restless at the boob. She pops off every 20'seconds or so and then screams and is hard to relatch. She has taken a bottle twice just fine. Anyone have advice for me? It's been a very long day.
This happened to us two weeks ago. The LC consultant said to try feeding her like you did as a newborn. Laid back, skin to skin, quiet and dim rooms. Also be prepared to feed at anytime. So I was stuck topless, to a chair for 3 days. By the end of day two it was a lot better and by day 3 we were back to normal.
I think this must be the 12 week growth spurt a little late, she will be 14 weeks thurs. she has been nursing pretty much non stop since yesterday afternoon. She was up 5 times last night to nurse too.
I tracked her feedings today for the first time in a really long time just bc I was curious. Today felt like a normal day for feeding, if she keeps normal she will have one more before bed for a total of 8 during the day and then 2-3 at night, which is 10 or 11 in a 24 hr period. This is so much less than it was, when I gave up tracking she was eating 15-16 times a day! I new it was less but wasn't sure how much less. Yay!!
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