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On-demand EBF: nighttime routine?

mrs.amylynne2mrs.amylynne2
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Matthew is EBF "on-demand" so I'm wondering how we can go about establishing a nighttime routine? He generally eats his last meal of the day between 6:30-9pm and usually falls asleep between 8:30-9:30pm for 5ish hours. I see all these posts about starting a night routine at the same time each night, including a feeding as part of the routine...I guess I'm not sure how to do that at this point. Any suggestions? Or should I not worry about it just yet since he gets a good stretch of sleep regardless?
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Re: On-demand EBF: nighttime routine?

  • dpeugh85dpeugh85

    I don't have a crazy rigid routine.  I try to start bedtime around 7.  Changing him, turning off lights, turn on his sleep sheep.  We cluster feed right before bedtime, like every 45 minutes to an hour.  Sometimes it helps if I give him a bottle of pumped milk, 4-4.5 oz right before bed.  This seems to knock him out and tide him over for a good 6-7 hour stretch.  He normally goes down around 8:30 and doesn't wake up again until 3-5.  Feed again, back down till 8 or so.

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  • nicababynicababy member

    We don't have a routine at a set time, but when she starts getting tired/hungry in the evenings (between 9 and 10 pm usually) I decide to start our bedtime.  I take her upstairs, but on a fresh diaper and a fresh sleeper/sleep sac.  Then I feed her in our room (she sleeps in a bassinet by our bed) on the rocking chair, read her a story, and rock her with lullabies.  She'll usually start crying until I feed her more and then falls asleep on my boob after a couple sucks.  Then I put her in her bassinet and hope for the best.  Last night she slept from 11pm - 5:30 am, quick feed, slept until 7:30, another feed, and she's still sleeping now at 9:30.

     I know the books say I shouldn't let her fall asleep while nursing, but that seems to be the only thing that works, and it really doesn't bother me, so I do it.  Maybe when she's a little older we'll be able to put her down drowsy without her screaming. 

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  • vanessa11411vanessa11411 member

    We go to bed at 8 and I kick DH out of the room. I turn off the TV and lights. I turn on the sound machine and the little heater. Sometimes it takes 15 minutes to get him to bed, other times up to an hour. I try to feed him as close to bed time as possible.

    I don't read and lotion up or anything like that. We don't bathe every evening. Once my SIL and her husband move out this summer then I'll get into a routine with all that stuff since by then LO will have his own room.

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  • Strider003Strider003 member
    We aren't really rigid with a routine yet either.  He usually eats sometime between 8 and 10, DH changes his diaper and gets him in a sleeper while I get a swaddling blanket ready and turn on a night light in our room (he'e still sleeping in the bassinet for part of the night).  He gets swaddled and rocked to sleep or at least until he's drowsy.  How long it takes depends on how sleepy he was through the whole process.  Sometimes we can swaddle and lay him down and sometimes it takes half an hour of rocking him.
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