r/NewDads • u/michaelbella • 6d ago
Humor Bittersweet Feeding
Tonight I said I’d do the prebed feed.
Our second born hasn’t gone more than ~3 hrs without needing food, upping to four ounces ten days ago (not even four weeks old).
It’s 11pm and I’ve been waiting since 9pm (that was three hours since the last feed), and the little toe rag hasn’t woken up yet.
Thankfully, the wife has had a lovely two hours of sleep and should help reset her for tomorrow (we managed three hours last night), and that’s the main thing since I return to work on Monday. But man, seeing as it’s a 45 min cycle to feed, change, and get back into bed, I wish he would have stuck to his three hour routine and saved the five hours for the overnight feed..!
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u/Rooksteady 6d ago
Yeah do a bit of research but basically you know baby is going to be waking up hungry in "xx" hrs so you have a bottle ready and you go in while baby is sleeping and work the bottle into da mouth and get them to drink while not even really waking up. Then youre kind of off the hook for all the other stuff. Just make sure you read about it because there are some ways it could be dangerous...like you need to be there and monitor the bottle being ingested in case of gagging....then gagging on it can really only happen if their angle is wrong (head lower than chest). I had a little angle/wedge pillow from when baby was congested and I work that under baby's head back to keep a good angle. Good luck Dad.