is it safe for a newborn?
is it safe for a newborn?
Tonight I co slept for the first time because my lo was inconsolable. Partly because we've been working on getting back to ebf from being on bottles for the weeks. She's doing fairly well transitioning I might add. But the past two days have been 90% breastfeeding and only a bottle when necessary. Anyway she's been wanting only me and never wants to be put down so I decided to co sleep tonight.
Nyramak·
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Oh I've been exclusively pumping this whole time since delivery. No formula. I have an oversupply.
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I was always told baby would wake themselves when hungry. My son lost a couple Oz's before leaving the hospital and gained them all back, and more, not even a week later.
The first night home, I assumed he would wake when he was hungry. We went to bed at 9pm, and I woke up at 4am and he hadn't woken up once to eat. I wasn't comfortable with that and started setting an alarm for every 2-3 hours at night to feed him for the first month. After that, I set my alarm for every 4-5 hours. I woke him up a lot to eat. I wasn't personally comfortable letting him go so long.
But, I know a lot of moms who don't wake their baby to eat after they reach their birth weight again.
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Depends on how her weight is doing. My daughter was pretty small at birth so they told me I had to wake her every few hours. After she started gaining good they said to just let her go until she woke on her own.
Nyramak·
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I guess I'll have to weigh her, looking at her she's probably half a pound or 3/4 of a pound past her birth weight. Once I weigh her I'll make my decision. Maybe I'll set an alarm like you mentioned every 4-5 hours at least to just offer her food. If rather offer and her not take than not offer at all.