RE: preemie-l From Stephanie - Nicholas Over Eating (fwd)
Ina Morgan (inam@iafrica.com)
Tue, 18 Jun 1996 18:37:32 +-200
Hi Stephanie,
Devin was also a real glutton and was waking every 2 hours for a feed - he
would have gone totally ballistic if we had not fed him every 2 hours - in fact he
does still wake at least twice a night for a bottle (juice). I fully empathize with
your lack of sleep - I was ready to drop when Devin was on his 2 hour regime.
He ended up back in NICU about 10 days after first discharge and when the
ped. saw how much he was drinking she recommended that we start him on
cereal - this was still before he was due to be born. We started him on literally
one teaspoon of cereal mixed with breast milk twice a day (I used to let him
suck it off my finger). This certainly helped with his milk intake and he started
going about 4 hours between feeds. He only started sleeping through about 1
month ago - (he turned 2 in March) - I think that babies march to their own
drum when it comes to sleeping through the night as his brother was sleeping
through from about 2 months.
I hope that you manage to sort out his waking times and get it to something
more manageable.
Good luck.
Ina