My hubby is amazing! My sleep shift is 7-1am, his is 1-7am. Lately dinnertime, feeding baby, etc.…
My hubby is amazing! My sleep shift is 7-1am, his is 1-7am. Lately dinnertime, feeding baby, etc. Keeps making my sleep time not start until 8:30-9:30. Last night being one of those nights. So I went to sleep and set an alarm to pump at 11 then feed baby at 1. I never heard my alarm go off, he snuck in and turned it off. I woke up at 4am and pumped...i thought it was actually 11. At 5am I heard baby and checked the clock, what?! Happily baby slept from his bottle at 11:30pm and was still asleep at 5 but hubby decided to wake him to feed, which was wise. Now I'm laying here well rested for the first time since we had him a month ago, feeding him. :) Seriously I adore my hubby. Sorry long rant to say that but the sleep made such a difference!
K·
My husband and I did shifts like that. He would be up til midnight then I’d take over. Helped a ton
Cindyrella ·
@kbbaybee16 definitely my shift is technically 1am to 7pm because I have him all day at home by myself so it gets a little exhausting but by giving him the first shift he has him during his "witching hour" that we are still waiting for him to grow out of so to speak. It's anywhere from 45 mins (last night for the 1st time) to 2 hrs of screaming and crying that he takes breaks during but mostly just crying that we can't soothe him out of.
Thankfully he is getting better, a big part of it initially was from him being sick...upper respiratory infection.
When it's my shift I feed him and he just lays on my chest asleep the entire time really.
Jana ·
Awe that's sweet! My husband did all the nighttime diapers and soothing and handed baby to me to feed since I EBF. That worked for us. Are you walking him up to eat for a reason?
Cindyrella ·
@jmedina he just turned 1 month and so pediatrician said if he sleeps through a feeding it is fine but we also want to make sure he eats enough. During the day he is every 2 hours. So at night he got a bottle of breast milk at 11pm and then breastfed at 5:15am. Back to sleep and I am feeding him now at 8:45. Now he'll be back to 2 hrs all day until 7pm.
mimi·
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I definitely should try this with my husband. Want all the ideas to just make it easy...thanks for sharing
Cindyrella ·
@asehlabo we got there from doing the all me but he changes diapers, 2 hr shifts, 3 hrs, then this now. The first 3 nearly caused emotional breakdowns regularly, added to postpartum hormones it was a mess. Definitely recommend this way first. Lol