**ESM354**

lemen99

I wanted to tell you that I responded (way late) to your post below about LO not waking to eat.

My response was different from the other girls.  Despite the instruction to wake every 4 at night, 3 during the day, we didn't.  He was sooo wayyy to tired to eat and if we woke him up, it made it so much worse. 

He gained slowly that way, but he gained, and got the sleep he needed and got stronger. Run it by your pedi, but when we told him what was going on, he said we could try not waking (letting him get the rest he needed so he had any energy to eat) and see how he did, and he did OK.

ESM354

Thanks for the response- he is doing better now wanting to eat every 3 or so hours during the day and 4-5 hours at night.  He is very upset when he wakes up and inpatient too so I guess that is a good sign.  He also gained weight better this past time when the nurse was out.  He must have just been having a sleepy couple days where he wasn't very hungry.