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BF - How long does it take to nurse/soothe before bedtime?
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If you BF before bedtime, how long does it take you to nurse/soothe your LO before laying them down? And do you lay them down awake or asleep? If you lay them down awake, how long does it take for them to fall asleep?
It takes me about 1.5 hours to nurse/soothe my LO to sleep. If he is not passed out completely, he will fuss for a couple minutes. But the whole process takes about 1.5 hours.
1.5 hours seems like a long time to me, but I try to remember that he is only 5 weeks old. It used to take me forever to lay down DD, but after she was a little older, I was able to nurse her and just lay her down immediately.
Just wondering if it takes others just as long.
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Re: BF - How long does it take to nurse/soothe before bedtime?
My LO is 5 weeks, and surprisingly we have a pretty good bedtime routine. We do a bath every other night, so those nights add about 20 minutes to the beginning, but we usually do bath, lotion, jammies, stories, feeding, burping, then bed. She goes down when she's drowsy and usually falls asleep in about 10 minutes. The whole process with bath takes about 45-60 minutes and without bath is about 30-45.
Middle of the night feedings take 30 minutes total from wake-up to when I'm crawling back under the covers.
It was taking me about 2 hours to get DD down including bath, lotion, pj's, and nursing to sleep before I put her in the RNP. For the past two weeks she falls asleep within about 20 minutes of nursing but the second I go to move her she is wide awake... and if I try to put her down she will scream, not cry, scream! For the past two weeks she has been sleeping on my chest all night from about 6:30pm-8am... it sucks. Everynight I try to wait until she is knocked out to try to put her in her RNP, boppy, crib, swing, anywhere else other than me... But it never works! I've spent up to 4 hours at a time doing this before I give in and go to bed with her on my chest. So my situation might not really be what you're asking!
I change him, then I nurse him for like 2 hours before he will go to sleep. he will fall asleep at the breast then when I go to readjust him he will start screaming. I will have to let him comfort nurse untill he falls asleep. It is very stressful for me some nights because my nipples still get quite sore (I'm hoping that ends soon). I hope it gets easier!