Preemies
GreenFlamingo7
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Feeding questions
GreenFlamingo7
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Bug was born at 35/2. He is now 37/1, and only half an ounce away from his birth weight. With full term babies the general guidance is that once they regain their birth weight, you can let them sleep and not wake them to feed. How does this work when the baby is a preemie? I've been waking him every 3 hours to feed, but sometimes slip a little and he goes 4 hours between eating, and then just takes in a bit extra, sometimes he wakes at 2.5 hours. How long can I plan on waking him to eat? I plan on asking our doc on Monday, but I was curious what others have been told.
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Re: Feeding questions
My son was born at 35 weeks and we had to wake him up every 3 hours to feed him until his due date, then he started waking up on his own. From there he progressed started taking more EBM each feeding and eventually at about 10 weeks old he started STTN. He currently takes 4 6oz bottles a day of 24 calorie EBM, in addition to fruit/cereal and veggie combos.. My son would have definitely slept through his feedings if we hadn't woken him up .
Ask your dr. Ours said every 3 hours (day) or 4 (at night).
That said, Andrew was wayyyyy sleepy if we woke him and wouldn't eat at all for that feeding or the next b/c he wasn't getting as good of rest, so we told the pedi it didn't make sense. He let us do a trial without waking - he said as long as he gained weight he didn't care. He did much better this way b/c he was rested, which he needed to be to eat b/c eating wore him out!