does your bf baby have a routine?

[jayisa02]

im just curious if other breastfed babies have a feeding routine? My DD just bf when she feels like it and goes to bed at varying times whereas my DS (who was bottle fed) had a very distinct routine. Interestingly it is my DD who is the more settled of my two babies. :)

[punkbaby]

i started a thread similar the other day :)

We have a set night time pattern...generally settles around 7-8pm, dream feed 11pm, sleeps till 5 or 6am. Day times i cant pick some days she hangs off me all day, other days she will feed 2 hourly or 4 hourly, hourly etc its really unpredictable. She sleep all night thats all care about lol

[SilverStarfish]

I don't really have any set routine with Becky - she just eats and sleeps when she wants to. She's starting to form vague patterns by herself - Sarah did the same. I just followed her lead and within a couple of months she'd sorted herself into a regular routine.

From time to time I might try to gently poke Becky in the right direction, but for the most part I just follow her lead :)

[Shakey]

when I was breast feeding DS he was never in a set routein, he would feed when he wanted too and that could vary from day to day,

with DD she's in a routein, i'm not sure if she's set in a routein because she was in hosp and they fed her at specific times or wether she was always going to be in a routein if I brought her straight home, even now at just about 7mths she gets up between 6 and 7am, feeds basically 4-5hrly and is in bed for the night between 7 and 8.30pm

[sweetsugardumplin']

My DD 3.5 months (but a big girl) pretty much leads me during the day (she knows when she's hungry) She feeds roughly every two hours and sleeps for only forty minutes :(

Like PB we have a routine in the evening - she has a feed then a bath with her big brother, then a top up feed before going to sleep between seven and eight.

She was sleeping through until about 2pm but she currently has a cold and maybe teething - so she is waking more frequenty during the night. :dizzy:

[Sanzinoz]

For my first I watched the clock and fed her accordingly, so I guess she had a routine. Although she didnt always stick to it! By #3 I just fed him whenever he was hungry and put him to bed when he was tired. I wouldnt have been able to tell you how often he fed or slept, I just let him guide the way. And I guess I just saw the "signs" more easily the third time around. Still, he eventually adopted his own routine.

[ogsmum]

my little one is 9 months and he has 4 feeds - first when he wakes at 5.30, 2nd after breakfast around 8am, then after lunch (1pm) and then after dinner at 6pm. he sleeps then an hour or so after so he doesn't get too used to feeding to sleep. this feeding schedule was recommended to us by a sleep consultant who came to our house to help us out :yelclap: was the best thing we've ever done!!! though every baby is different, it was just that little boy didn't know how to sleep without being fed before...
when he was really little he had a bf whenever he wanted which was grand for both of us. i guess baby's change like us adults - as long as we are fluid to it all.... :ecomcity:
sal

[kimmymonster]

I have always had a flexiable routine for b/f my twins. They are now 11.5 months old and have 5 b/f a day.
Wake and feed at 5am.
Feed before morning sleep at 8.30am.
Feed before afternoon sleep at 1pm.
Feed at 4pm,
Feed before bed at 6.30pm.
I cut a midmorning feed out a couple of weeks ago and now give a snack and am looking to cut out the afternoon tea b/f in a couple of week and introduce a snack.
I didn't follow any sort of routine when I had my older DS and knew that wasn't going to work with twins. I did demand feed until I started them on solids. I still did demand feed until eating solids was established. It just worked out that a flexable routine worked really well for us and I have two very happy healthy babies.