Well, Baby A’s feeding patterns appear to be getting better, although we are still a little concerned that he is not eating enough. A few weeks back he was feeding every 3 hours – he still does this but now he will sleep for about a 5 hour stretch at night. Incidentally Baby A is 12 weeks today and I should mention that my baby group did say that he would sleep better after about 3 months. They really know their stuff!
Although we worry about whether he is feeding enough, he has been gaining weight. We watched some of the video footage of him a few days after he was born, and we can definitely tell he is getting bigger.
It’s weird to think that the first few weeks we were feeding him about an ounce of milk every hour on the hour. It was knackering! You would finish the feed, sleep for half an hour, then wake up to do it all again…..This is where I have issues with the hospitals though (again!) – it would have been good to have a bit of advice about how often to feed and how to go about establishing a routine. We thought feeding every hour was normal!
He can still be a right pain to feed sometimes. At times he is an angel and has his milk, although he is so slow it is rare to finish within 40 minutes. When he plays up though, he tends to do one of two things: Fall asleep (or pretend to?) so he doesn’t have to suck the bottle; or move around like crazy and start crying.
It’s made things pretty tough on occasion, believe me. Because he takes so long to feed, you feel like you are in an endless cycle where all you are doing is feeding him, changing his nappy, putting him to sleep – and then doing it all again in the next hour or so….
I just realised the above paragraph is virtually identical to the third paragraph. Even though his feed times have increased, it is still the same…..or maybe I will never be happy until he is eating like a normal person!
