The New Contented Little Baby Book by Gina Ford

Author:Gina Ford [Ford, Gina]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781101615133
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2013-03-04T16:00:00+00:00

Feeding

If your baby is feeding between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m., you have to wake him at 7 a.m. every morning for at least 10 days and he is starting to show less interest in his morning meal, then you can very gradually, and by a small amount, cut back the amount of milk he is taking in the night. This will have the domino effect of him drinking more during the day and less in the night, and eventually he will drop the middle-of-the-night feeding altogether. It is important not to cut back too much or too fast as the baby could then start to wake hungry long before 7 a.m.; this will defeat the whole purpose of getting him to sleep through from 11 p.m. to 6/7 a.m.

At around six weeks, your baby will go through another growth spurt, and you will need to reduce the amount you are expressing first thing in the morning by a further 1 oz. and cut out the midmorning expressing altogether. If your baby woke and fed well between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m., slept until 7 a.m., then woke and fed well again, he should be happy to go a stretch after the 7 a.m. feeding. You can gradually start to push the 10 a.m. feeding to closer to 10:30 a.m. The exception to this would be a baby who is feeding closer to 5 a.m. in the morning and having a top-up at 7:30 a.m. It is unlikely that he would get through to 10:30 a.m. if he’s only had a top-up feeding at 7:30 a.m., so continue to feed him at 10 a.m. (with a top-up before the lunchtime nap) until he is feeding at between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. During growth spurts, your baby will probably need to spend longer on the breast at some feedings, especially if you have not been expressing at the suggested times. It is important to allow the baby this extra time on the breast and, if need be, additional top-ups. While it may feel as if you are backtracking with the routines, the extra feeding during the day will only be short term and will avoid the problem of your baby starting to wake earlier or more in the night because he has not fed well enough during the day.

Bottle-fed babies should have the 7 a.m., the 10:30 a.m. and the 6:15 p.m. feedings increased first during growth spurts. If your baby is happily waiting until 10:30 a.m. for his feeding, and during this growth spurt, you find that he starts to wake during his lunchtime nap or earlier than usual, it would be worthwhile giving him a small top-up before putting him down for his nap. Once he has done a week of uninterrupted lunchtime naps, you can gradually cut back on the top-up until you have eliminated it altogether and he is back to having a full feeding at 10:30 a.m. However, should you find that your baby is

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