At night, do/did you wait until your LO was actually crying before feeding, or did you get them up when they started fussing?
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When she starts fussing, I feed her.
But her sister's room is right next to ours and I am terrified of her getting woken up, so I tend to baby right away.
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I feed her when she starts fussing as long as I gear her at that point. I'm also always nervous about her waking up her brother. It's a lot more difficult to get him back to sleep!
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Once he got back to birth weight and was gaining well, we stopped waking him and just wait for him to fuss.
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When she was teeny, as soon as she fussed. Once she was over a month I would wait a few minutes to make sure she was actually awake before feeding her. Now at almost five months I wait at least five- ten or for crying.
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Depends on how old baby is! When she was teeny it was as soon as she fussed. Around 4 months I'd let her fuss for a bit bc sometimes she'd settle herself. I still do that now (8 months).
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I try to get to her as soon as she starts fussing so DH doesn't get woken up. A few times I was too tired to get out of bed quickly and she fell back asleep, so I probably should just wait it out. I also sleep with ear plugs though (am I a horrible mom?) and I wonder to myself how many times she gets up in the night and I don't actually hear her. I just cannot sleep at all if I don't have my plugs in!
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I feed as soon as she fusses. I just feel like getting her more worked up makes her harder to get back to sleep.
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As soon as I hear him fuss, I get up to feed him.
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I wait it out for 5-10 minutes.
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Now I wait 10 minutes. Back when we were cosleeping he'd stir/fuss and be fed right away. It's easier when all you have to do is roll over instead of actually getting up!
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As soon as he fussed !
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When cosleeping for the first 5.5 months, pretty much right away. After she moved into the crib, we would wake a couple minutes. But she's never been one to wake and party for no reason. If she woke up, she ate and went back to bed.
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I always waited for a real cry. When LO was in our room, she did a lot of grunting and noise-making and didn't always wake up. So I waited for the real thing. Now, it depends on how long it's been since her last feed. If it's only been an hour, I wait 3-5 min to see if she'll go back to sleep.
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Ditto: @birdofafeather: I nurse when I hear fussing. Waiting would usually lead to full-blown crying and harder to get back to sleep. A few minutes of nursing and she was back out fast.
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I get up and feed him right away. He doesn't want to stay awake at night, so when he wakes I know it's because he's hungry.
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When it's about that time (which was every three hours back then) I would get up to nurse to avoid a total meltdown. Then it might get hard to get him to settle down. When he got older I had an internal clock to get up at 4am every night to nurse. So weird! It happened with both of my boys.
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I can usually tell by the way he sounds if he's going to settle back to sleep after fussing for a few minutes or if he's going to escalate into crying. So I usually wait a few minutes to be sure I don't go in a grab him when he will just put himself back to sleep.
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After he was a week old, I stopped waking him up and waited for him to start fussing since he reached his birth weight. When he was about 4 months old, I started to let him cry for a few minutes before getting him as sometimes he would fall back asleep again.
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@dojo: ditto!
I can tell if he's just awake and getting comfortable or if he's awake and is going to get even more awake..so I wait it out and see if he'll go back to sleep or not.
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