Second: Regardless of what you decide, schedule seven feedings, from the first morning feeding to the late evening feeding. If you start the morning feed later than what was normal, you could be pushing the late-evening feeding to midnight. Do you keep the original morning feeding time to start the day or do you establish a new one? No problem either way, but a decision has to be made. 3 Products to Help Encourage Sleep - by Linda Scruggsįirst: Decide the time for the first morning feeding.If feedings are divided equally, it would put them at every 2½ hours, so it appears you are moving backward. Here are the new figures to work through: 24 hours minus 8 hours of sleep, leaves 16 hours to work in seven feedings during the day. However, now that baby is sleeping through the night, it appears that the math does not work quite as well with the seven feedings. Before baby was sleeping through the night, Mom fed every 3 hours, which fit perfectly in a 24-hour routine. Once baby merges the “middle of the night” feeding, Mom will need to make some adjustments to the daytime routine. Adjustment to Baby’s Routine after Merge Two A seven-week-old can handle a 7-hour stretch at night. The average healthy five-week-old can handle a 5-hour stretch at night. If you are wondering how many hours of nighttime sleep your baby is capable of handling before he needs to be fed again, here is the rule of thumb: By five weeks of age, most babies can extend their nighttime sleep by 1 hour for each week. He will consume more milk during his daytime feedings, especially at the first morning feeding. Your baby, however, will not be reducing his daily caloric intake, just rearranging when he takes those calories. Around baby's second month, another merge happens in their nap routine, making it necessary to adjust their feed-wake-sleep routine yet again. We're here to help with a sample baby sleep schedule for babies 7-10 weeks old.īetween weeks seven and ten, most Babywise babies drop their middle-of-the-night feeding and begin sleeping 8 hours at night.
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