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We've got breastfeeding down pat...but now I have more questions! Wise ladies of IMSN, I would love your insight
Sleeping:
Barring any Babywise-type schedule with CIO (I'm not comfortable with that), should a two month old be developing a sleep schedule at all or is it normal for it still to be up in the air? Her naps are really random and short (I'm lucky for her to get a good 1.5 hour nap; most of the time it is 30 minutes here and there) unless she is sleeping on/with someone. Then she'll sleep for hours.
As for nighttime, she's been pretty routinely waking up between 4-5 am to eat, but she could go to sleep anywhere between 9 pm and 1 am. Or sometimes she'll go to sleep at 10 pm, wake up again at midnight, be up for an hour, and then sleep until 5 am. We never really know what we're going to get. She usually cluster feeds beforehand and is really fussy before she goes to sleep, but some nights we put her in the mamaroo and she is out for the night. Like I said, no rhyme or reason whatsoever.
I'm a little worried about this because of my work schedule (that will require me to work 1-2 hours in the evening). If that wasn't the case, I'd be fine with her being up late just to spend time with her, but I'm going to need for her to go down at a decent time now. She really fights sleep no matter what the situation is.
Eating:
She's a champ at switching between the bottle and breast (love the Breastflow bottles), but I'm concerned she is overeating big time at the bottle.
The girl can EAT. It's her favorite activity. I have no idea how much she gets at the breast, but I estimated based on the LC's formula/websites, that should should be taking somewhere between 3.5-4.5 oz per bottle feeding. The problem is she eats so fast that I don't think the "I'm full" signal hits her brain until it is too late. She does better self-regulating at the breast, but even then I occasionally have to stop pull her off--she starts choking and gasping for breath.
She can down a 5 oz bottle in under 10 minutes if we let her. This is a slow flow nipple and arguably the hardest (most work) bottle to drink out of on the market. She gets extremely angry if we try to take her off it before she is "done" so most people (me included) panic and give it right back to her instead of giving her breaks. I've started taking her off at 3.5-4 oz and giving her a paci/redirecting her and she usually calms down and goes on her merry way 5 minutes later, but it is really difficult to do because of her screaming.
Without fail there is usually A LOT of spit up on a day she has a bottle, but usually none or very little on a day she is always breastfed. This is what makes me think she is overeating and worries me now that she will be taking a bottle 4 days a week. I think the alternating spit up/watery poop episode at my in-laws was related to this too--she had 2 full bottles the night before and another that morning on top of nursing. My MIL tried redirecting her but ended up giving her a full bottle because it seemed like she was hungry.
Sleeping:
Barring any Babywise-type schedule with CIO (I'm not comfortable with that), should a two month old be developing a sleep schedule at all or is it normal for it still to be up in the air? Her naps are really random and short (I'm lucky for her to get a good 1.5 hour nap; most of the time it is 30 minutes here and there) unless she is sleeping on/with someone. Then she'll sleep for hours.
As for nighttime, she's been pretty routinely waking up between 4-5 am to eat, but she could go to sleep anywhere between 9 pm and 1 am. Or sometimes she'll go to sleep at 10 pm, wake up again at midnight, be up for an hour, and then sleep until 5 am. We never really know what we're going to get. She usually cluster feeds beforehand and is really fussy before she goes to sleep, but some nights we put her in the mamaroo and she is out for the night. Like I said, no rhyme or reason whatsoever.
I'm a little worried about this because of my work schedule (that will require me to work 1-2 hours in the evening). If that wasn't the case, I'd be fine with her being up late just to spend time with her, but I'm going to need for her to go down at a decent time now. She really fights sleep no matter what the situation is.
Eating:
She's a champ at switching between the bottle and breast (love the Breastflow bottles), but I'm concerned she is overeating big time at the bottle.
The girl can EAT. It's her favorite activity. I have no idea how much she gets at the breast, but I estimated based on the LC's formula/websites, that should should be taking somewhere between 3.5-4.5 oz per bottle feeding. The problem is she eats so fast that I don't think the "I'm full" signal hits her brain until it is too late. She does better self-regulating at the breast, but even then I occasionally have to stop pull her off--she starts choking and gasping for breath.
She can down a 5 oz bottle in under 10 minutes if we let her. This is a slow flow nipple and arguably the hardest (most work) bottle to drink out of on the market. She gets extremely angry if we try to take her off it before she is "done" so most people (me included) panic and give it right back to her instead of giving her breaks. I've started taking her off at 3.5-4 oz and giving her a paci/redirecting her and she usually calms down and goes on her merry way 5 minutes later, but it is really difficult to do because of her screaming.
Without fail there is usually A LOT of spit up on a day she has a bottle, but usually none or very little on a day she is always breastfed. This is what makes me think she is overeating and worries me now that she will be taking a bottle 4 days a week. I think the alternating spit up/watery poop episode at my in-laws was related to this too--she had 2 full bottles the night before and another that morning on top of nursing. My MIL tried redirecting her but ended up giving her a full bottle because it seemed like she was hungry.
. I'm just a big believer in letting them eat until satisfied, for some of my kids it was 10 minutes and others it was 45. Some would eat 1 jar of baby food at a meal and others needed 3 jars. I know the slow nipple for the bottle bothers her but keep using it or try other bottles. I think it is also a good idea to start with 4oz, let her burp, and then give her 2oz increments per bottle (burping in between) until she is done. she will likely tire at the first 2oz but she will finish a happy baby.
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