Article: Newborn sleep

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• curlylocks3 member

  August 2014

  What about it makes you twitchy? Just trying to guage what type of conversation we are going for here

    
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• laramt member

  August 2014

  William eats every 4hrs and sleeps 10-12hrs straight through the night.

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• nunzchucks member

  August 2014 edited August 2014

  I just don't see how an EBF baby under 8 weeks would get adequate nutrition by eating every 4 hours during the day and then sleeping 7-8 hours at night. Maybe I didn't read too well, but I couldn't tell how old the kid was when they started this method.
  ETA: I mean, even BabyWise says every 2.5-3 hours during the day and no more than 4 hours at night until 7 weeks.

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• laramt member

  August 2014

  Just to clarify; I would never leave my baby to cry. I have never let him cry it out or even tried to make him sleep through the night. He just does. He weighs 14lbs and is almost 11 weeks old. But has been a good sleeper since day one. After he hit birth weight the doc said we could demand feed. He only was waking up once a night for a feed after birth weight. But he does eat a lot in a feeding. Like 7oz every 4hrs. The only times he hasn't been on a 4hr schedule was when he had a cold (eating every 2 and waking up in the night snuffly), when he hAd his shots (woke up and wanted to comfort nurse) and growth spurts where he cluster feeds like a champ.

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• curlylocks3 member

  August 2014

  It does definitely seem young to try this and I agree @Tdonatoni‌ about inconvenience. Babies don't always eat at convenient times. Generally speaking, many things about babies are not convenient.
  However, we are not able to do fully on demand feedings- if my babies got fed every 2 hours they would take no more than an ounce each time, then try to ravenously gulp down a bottle and then throw it all back up. We did have to use distraction and it was emotionally difficult for me, but I got through knowing it was in their best interest (to get them to take enough calories). I couldn't have done it just for sleep I don't think.

    
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• ElTrain5 member

  August 2014 edited August 2014

  It's one thing if a baby self dictates that schedule, but this article is teaching parents to "train" newborns to go longer without eating. If you have to "teach" something, that means it's not happening naturally, and in my eyes, that's withholding food from your hungry baby. Which is friggin awful. (Mind you this is about newborns, which usually seems to mean no older than 10-12 weeks)
  
  If it's too inconvenient for someone to get up with a baby who's less than 12 weeks old even oncea night, I would hope they'd reconsider having children. Or hire a night nurse.
  
  Eta: if you've got a situation where you need to space feedings for a particular reason, that's also understandable. But this method seems to be solely for the comfort of the parent.

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

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• nicolemcm member

  August 2014

  It makes me twitchy bc it seems like the baby in the article is 2-3 weeks and that's way too young IMHO to be scheduling and distracting from feedings.
  
  If you didn't think you were going to be up in the motn feeding, maybe you shouldn't have had kiddies.
  
  To those of you with great sleepers, this does not in any way come at you. My LO is 10 weeks and is up 1-3 times through the night and much more often when he was younger. And that's what was expected.

  
  
  

   

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• Mindyvl member

  August 2014

  No. Just no.

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• brooklyngirl46 member

  August 2014

  I love sleep, and i can empathize with missing it. But to me, when my lo was that young it was all about making sure her needs were met.
  
  If there is a danger to the parent not being able to care for the infant, then yes, do what is needed to be able to get through. Safety comes first. In that case, modifying is one thing. But this seems somewhat severe to put on a baby if it is just about want and not need. It sucks when you are going through it, but to go that quickly to changing lo's sleep and eating habits seems crazy. You never know how they might turn out a few weeks later. Maybe they drop a feeding on their own.
  
  

  
  

  Being with my LO rocks! DD born 6/13/14.

  

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  August 2014

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