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May 2011 Moms
SC1977
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How do you know it's time to feed your baby? (Overnights)
SC1977
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Do you wait until he or she cries?
Our baby sleeps in a pack and play in our room. The past few nights, I've heard him fussing. When I look at him, his eyes appear closed but he's making noises and grabbing frantically at his face and mouth with his hands. I watched him for a minute or two last night before picking him up to feed him. He fell asleep when he was eating (this is not unusual though). Do you think he was trying to soothe himself back to sleep and I should have left him alone? Or was he asking for food and I was right to feed him?
Sometimes I feel like the biggest moron when trying to figure him out.
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Re: How do you know it's time to feed your baby? (Overnights)
Sometimes that's what DD does, I find that if I just get her up and feed her when she starts that business that the whole process is quicker and easier.
If I let her go until she's awake she starts an all out scream fest and has trouble getting latched and has herself all worked up!
The half-asleep feeding is the way we do things! It's so much easier on me.
This is exactly what our LO has been doing lately...not crying, just making noises and attacking her hands, lol. I set my alarm at night for a max 4 hours (she's been going that long lately overnight, which is awesome), so I am usually pretty sure that it's a sign she's hungry!
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My LO does exactly what you described. He fusses with his eyes shut and moves his arms around. I pick him up & feed him. He eats and goes right back to sleep (usually..) and then I put him back in his bassinet.
If I waited till he was wide awake and screaming, he would not fall back asleep as easily.
This is what I do too. Sometimes he will start making noises, I wake up but he stops before I can even get up to him, so I go back to sleep. If I wait through his fussing, I find myself more awake trying to decide if I should get him or leave him.
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DS 5/11/11
DD 9/13/13
She sleeps in her crib in her room (next to ours). She usually goes to sleep at 1030-1100 and I don't feed her until she cries. Today, that was at 04:30. I'm BFing, but with an overactive letdown, and that fact that your milk is more productive overnight, I give her a BF bottle on the overnight feedings, otherwise, she'd choke out on the force of the milk- and it makes moreof a mess that I don't want to deal with in the middle of the night. But, while she sits in the boppy to eat, I'll double pump about 8-10 ounces total in the time it takes for her to finish her bottle (maybe 6 oz). Then, I have some milk staged/ready for the daytime feedings if I don't BF that time, or for freezing.
Sometimes, she'll make noises in her sleep, but because she's in the next room, it really doesn't bother us, so I wait for her to start crying. It sounds bad, but that's just what works for us.
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This is what we've found too. I like to get him to eat while he is still half sleepy. That makes feeding quicker, burping easier (since he is just a floppy baby when burping and not squirming) and putting back to his rock n' play easier.
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this exactly! he also goes back to sleep MUCH easier if I dont wait till he screams to get fed.
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I do this as well. Abby just started to do this the past few nights and is the one reason I am now hesitant to start her in her crib overnight this weekend.
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This exactly!