I took a photo of my bedside table yesterday before I decluttered it because it was ridiculous.
Ridiculous because I've been going into every bookstore and buying sleep and baby books like crazy. I have spent thousands of rands.
In my current reading pile I had FOUR books.
too lazy now but will upload later...
Anyway, the main thing I gather from all of these people is if you want your babies to sleep more during the night, you've got to get them to feed enough during the day.
Right, not a difficult concept.
BUT how, dear friends, do you do that?
Connor is about 6kg so should be having 900 ml a day.
He is kind of there... or at least around the high 800's every day for the last two weeks.
But he will ONLY eat if he's hungry. Don't you wish we were the same? I wouldn't have to deal with my emotional eating of chocolates and other wrong foods!!!
Anyway, back to the story.
If he's done, he simply stops, spits out the teat (nipple) and that's that. No amount of encouraging him will get him to take 1ml more.
Kendra is the same with eating, but more stubborn as she will scream if you try to feed her when she is NOT HUNGRY, Mummy, so I tend to use Connor for all my experiments as he refuses quietly :)
His feeding schedule looks something like this:
12:20 140 ml there'd been 5hr 20 from last feed to this one
04:30 85 ml
07:10 50 ml
09:10 100 ml
11:15 90 ml
14:05 105 ml
14:30 20 ml this is me, when I know he's going to go sleep, trying to get more food in him
17:40 90 ml
18:45 70 ml
22:30 125 ml
total for day 875ml
all this information is courtesy of The Notebook, without which I wouldn't know what they're eating and when.
Okay, so I would love to know HOW I get them to eat more during the day?
