Scheduling Feedings and sleep

We are partially co-sleeping. She also spends nights in the
pac-n-play that is also in our room. On that nights that I am too
tired to put her back, she
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Sapphire Spiral
Mom to Cassie 9/9/03 stays in bed with me. Though she seems to wake
more often when we do co-sleep.



"iphigenia" wrote in message
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Sapphire Spiral wrote:

During the night she will get up every 2 hours or sleep for 5.
My
sleep has been really suffering, but while her night sleep has
never
been predictable either, she used to go for longer stretches. I
guess
that I am hoping that if we can get a routine going, it would make
life easier for the both of us.

Are you co-sleeping? It makes these periods of unpredictability and
frequent
waking much easier to handle.

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i do not think that they will sing to me."

"Kate" wrote in message
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For the past month my DD has been stretching out her day feedings.
Along with this she has been waking and feeding more at night.
She
has been waking every 2 to 3 hours. At some point I know that she
will start sleeping through the night again, but I was wondering
if
part of the problem is that she isn't on any kind of schedule yet.

I am feeding on demand, and she will nurse anywhere from every
hour to
every four hours during the day. Sometimes this coincides with a
nap,
sometimes not. Usually she naps for about 30 minutes when she does
nap, which can be every 2 to 4 hours.

Does anyone have any suggestions, or comments about scheduling, or
will this just work itself out?


yes, it will. She doesnt' need you to set a schedule for her, and
doing so is a lot of work for you. She'll get to be predictable and
then you'll find she's on a schedule around the time she starts 1st
grade. or maybe not. :-)

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straight
and unerring, foursquare and calm, great and tolerant. Everything is
accomplished without the necessity of fabricated purpose. Man's way
is
equally self-evident. His internal
principles are correct; his external acts are righteous; his results
are certain. ~ I Ching (B.C. 1150?) Chinese Book of Changes
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Thanks

Actually I just made the decision today not to go back to my job.
This will definitely make the unpredictability much easier to handle.

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"Kate" wrote in message
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I am feeding on demand, and she will nurse anywhere from every
hour to
every four hours during the day. Sometimes this coincides with a
nap,
sometimes not. Usually she naps for about 30 minutes when she does
nap, which can be every 2 to 4 hours.

Does anyone have any suggestions, or comments about scheduling, or
will this just work itself out?


yes, it will. She doesnt' need you to set a schedule for her, and
doing so is a lot of work for you. She'll get to be predictable and
then you'll find she's on a schedule around the time she starts 1st
grade. or maybe not. :-)




Thanks

Actually I just made the decision today not to go back to my job.
This will definitely make the unpredictability much easier to handle.

woo hoo! how does it feel???

:-)


are you pagan?

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Kate, http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~kolina/a...f-formula.html
Mom to Ursula (9!), Sage (6.5), Benno (3!!) Nature's way is
straight and unerring, foursquare and calm, great and tolerant.
Everything is accomplished without the necessity of fabricated
purpose. Man's way is equally self-evident. His internal
principles are correct; his external acts are righteous; his results
are certain. ~ I Ching (B.C. 1150?) Chinese Book of Changes
http://listserv.uts.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/parent-l
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Just-Moms/ :-)