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WWYD? Wake to nurse or let sleep?
C goes down between 8pm and 9:30pm, and STTN, sometimes until 7am. I need to be out the door by 6:45am. Lately I have been late to work because he doesn't wake up until 6:30/6:45. If you were in my situation, would you wake up your DC to nurse or would you let him sleep? DH is a late sleeper and is kind of a tazmanian devil once he wakes up, getting himself and C out the door, so I can't really ask him to take the additional 20 mins to bottle feed C.
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Re: WWYD? Wake to nurse or let sleep?
I always make sure I nurse DS before I leave. Once I was back to work, I tried to maximize the number of nursing sessions and make it so he only really got bottles at DC. I just loved nursing him and I wanted to keep up my supply. DH would never have time to give a bottle in the morning.
So yes, I would try to nurse him before you leave. Nowadays DS is up anywhere from 5:45 - 6AM and I nurse him when he first gets up and then I do a quick nursing session around 6:45-50 before I'm out the door at 7AM.
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I never wake a sleeping baby. Once T started sleeping past 5:30 or 6, I had to drop the morning nursing session because there just wasn't time. We get her up at 7 to get her ready for daycare, and she's there by 7:30, so she got her first bottle of the day after drop-off. Could your LO go from whenever he wakes up until he gets to daycare before he gets a bottle?
(This is also where I would be prodding DH to get his bottom out of bed 20 minutes earlier to help feed LO even though he wants to sleep later. My DH is not a morning person either, but I refuse to be late to work because he wants to sleep in.)
your LO is still very young and if you drop the morning session (the one where you have the MOST milk), your supply may tank. You could pump and leave that bottle and make your DH feed him or you could pump and freeze, or pump for later in the day for the DCP. I don't like to wake up a baby either but what time does he usually wake up? If it's w/n 30mins after you leave, I'd just nurse him, can you take him, nurse him,and put him back down all w/out him waking up? That would be ideal
I typically subscribe to the "never wake a sleeping baby to feed" camp, but I would make an exception in this case. Breastfeeding is important, not just for the nutrition, but for the bonding between mother and child. Since he is STTN (gosh, I'm so envious!!!), and you get home from work presumably after 5, that gives you only 2 (yes?) times too nurse him on weekdays. Keeping that early morning session not only will help maintain your supply throughout the day, but also reestablishes your bond after a long night.
Perhaps you can nurse him just before you leave, then hand off to DH on your way out of the door.
Ditto! My LO sleeps till 7 usually but I have to be out at 6 so I pump and leave one bottle out at room temp and put the other one in the fridge that adds to the day's supply the DH will give her throughout the day.