S/O Waking Baby, any BF Moms leave before LO wakes?

Oohgurl · September 2013

I start work next Friday and I had planned on weaning before that. Fail, I cant do it yet.

Anyway, I have to be out the door at 5:30. LO normally sleeps until atleast 5:45-6 and then goes back down until 7-7:30.

DH will be taking baby at 6:35 to daycare.

Would you wake to BF? Or have DH give a bottle? In which he will probably have to wake a early anyway.

MrsM1111 · September 2013

I would wake LO to nurse before leaving. I'm super attached to nursing and mine would just fall right back to sleep anyway...

Oohgurl · September 2013

Yes, this weekend I an going to play around with putting him to bed earlier too to see if he will wake up earlier. Im super nervous about this. IDK why, just seems like a lot for DH to handle.

Him getting ready, getting dogs taken care of, Waking baby, dressing baby, car seat etc. I know he will be fine, he just never has to do any of it now.

Lolalipsy · September 2013

MrsM1111 said:
I would wake LO to nurse before leaving. I'm super attached to nursing and mine would just fall right back to sleep anyway...

This.

mlandwehr · September 2013

i leave before LO wakes and i do not wake him, but also he doesnt go to daycare so DH gives it whenever he wake up

telicious2 · September 2013

mlandwehr said:
i leave before LO wakes and i do not wake him, but also he doesnt go to daycare so DH gives it whenever he wake up

Same here.

Edited to add- the times when DH had to get up to be somewhere in the morning I got LO up and fed him. It was easier for DH but not so for me. As much as I love BF, I also like doing my morning thing and getting out the door on time. Definitely give yourself extra time if you BF in the morning.

bhjones1980 · September 2013

I get up at 5am, and leave the bedroom (where LO sleeps) by 5:30am.

I feed him before I leave if his last night eating was more than an hour before. But he normally wakes up on his own to eat at 4:30am ish so I just put him back to bed and then get up, shower and leave without waking him again.

some mornings are more difficult to call, if his last feeding was before 4am, since I do not want to risk him not going back down if I wake him up to eat.

but i found now that we have a routine with my work schedule he always wakes up before I leave anyways.

bhjones1980 · September 2013

ohgrl95 said:

Yes, this weekend I an going to play around with putting him to bed earlier too to see if he will wake up earlier. Im super nervous about this. IDK why, just seems like a lot for DH to handle. Him getting ready, getting dogs taken care of, Waking baby, dressing baby, car seat etc. I know he will be fine, he just never has to do any of it now.

On this note, I was super nervous about this too (DH handling everything in the morning) since he had done only limited baby care during my maternity leave. I was VERY surprised how fast he rose to the occasion and how well he did. Men are more resourceful than we give them credit for, especially when they HAVE to be

Now DH teaches ME things about LO since he has him (and our dog) in the mornings and evenings before I get home from work.

jedimindtrick · September 2013

Depends on what time he gets up to eat at night. But yes, I often feed him in the morning. He doesn't really even wake up, so I guess it's like a dream feed. I get him out of the crib, feed, then put him back. His eyes never open and he usually sleeps another hour or so. This morning he woke up shortly after the feed but often he sleeps on. If he wakes up for a feeding within an hour or so of my wake up time I just let DH give him a bottle later.

jedimindtrick · September 2013

bhjoytnes1980 said:

ohgrl95 said:

Yes, this weekend I an going to play around with putting him to bed earlier too to see if he will wake up earlier. Im super nervous about this. IDK why, just seems like a lot for DH to handle.

Him getting ready, getting dogs taken care of, Waking baby, dressing baby, car seat etc. I know he will be fine, he just never has to do any of it now.

On this note, I was super nervous about this too (DH handling everything in the morning) since he had done only limited baby care during my maternity leave. I was VERY surprised how fast he rose to the occasion and how well he did. Men are more resourceful than we give them credit for, especially when they HAVE to be

Now DH teaches ME things about LO since he has him (and our dog) in the mornings and evenings before I get home from work.

This is the same for us. LO used to cry while a took a shower. But DH has done great with him while I'm at work.

Oohgurl · September 2013

NJAZgirl said:

Depends on what time he gets up to eat at night. But yes, I often feed him in the morning. He doesn't really even wake up, so I guess it's like a dream feed. I get him out of the crib, feed, then put him back. His eyes never open and he usually sleeps another hour or so. This morning he woke up shortly after the feed but often he sleeps on. If he wakes up for a feeding within an hour or so of my wake up time I just let DH give him a bottle later.

You sleep suit right? Do you BF him in it? How about burp?

TundraGirl · September 2013

I wake my little man to feed him. I asked about it at his 4 month appt Monday and his pedi said that was just fine.

jedimindtrick · September 2013

ohgrl95 said:

NJAZgirl said:

Depends on what time he gets up to eat at night. But yes, I often feed him in the morning. He doesn't really even wake up, so I guess it's like a dream feed. I get him out of the crib, feed, then put him back. His eyes never open and he usually sleeps another hour or so. This morning he woke up shortly after the feed but often he sleeps on. If he wakes up for a feeding within an hour or so of my wake up time I just let DH give him a bottle later.

You sleep suit right? Do you BF him in it? How about burp?

Yes I do. I just put him on the BrestFriend pillow I have and I roll a receiving blanket to put under his head like a pillow. Because his head doesn't touch the nursing pillow with the suit on. We've done that for a while and he does fine.

And I actually don't burp him at night. I stopped a long time ago with MOTN feeds because they just woke him back up. Then I had read you don't have to burp after a dream feed because they are so relaxed they don't take in much air nursing half asleep. Which made sense because he never had any issue not being burped MOTN.

If he doesn't nurse to sleep I burp him regularly in it, but he doesn't always burp so I don't know if its even effective in the suit. lol

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