Late night feedings and supply

Re: Late night feedings and supply

• acbfreire member

  August 2012

  Baker_Bride:

  I've been told I can have one four hour stretch in the night and all other stretches between feedings must be three hours or less. That hasn't been a problem but tonight I accidentally went 4.5 hours and had to really work at waking LO up. I don't want to get my hopes up that he'll let me sleep like that again but in the event, when can I feel my supply is established enough to let him sleep as long as he likes? Pumping isn't an option right now because I still haven't introduced the bottle. Thanks!

  you can pump and build a stash, let your LO sleep.
  

  

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• cltk12 member

  August 2012

  Why can you only have little stretches? How old is lo?

  

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• blu-eyedwife member

  August 2012

  How old is he? 

  My guy was a FANTASTIC sleeper the first 2 weeks. It took almost an hour to wake him up to eat.  At his 1 week appointment he was at birth weight, so the pediatrician said I could start letting him sleep at 2 weeks.  Which also corresponded to the time when he started waking to eat every 3 hours.
  

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• rp-chicago-mom member

  August 2012

  cltk12:

  Why can you only have little stretches? How old is lo?

  
  
  Two reasons. One is he's a week old and the LC said so when building up my supply. Also he was big and lost 9 of his weight in the hospital. The pedi wants him eating that often.

  

  

  Then and now. How did my boy get so big? 
  

  
  

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• rp-chicago-mom member

  August 2012

  That's nine percent stupid mobile site!

  

  

  Then and now. How did my boy get so big? 
  

  
  

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• caitie2002 member

  August 2012

  You can start letting him sleep once he is back to birthweight.

  

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