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Friday, 28 March 2008

We are pretty much on the standard 3-hour routine, starting somewhere between 7am and 7.30 and then feeding roughly every 3 hours until the same time in the evening, then bath and bedtime. He has a dreamfeed somewhere between 10 and 11pm, usually expressed milk in a bottle as it never really worked with breastfeeding, and then at the moment just one small night feed which is usually around 5 to 5.30am, though it varies a bit.As he used to be very good at settling with his dummy, we had a very simple sleep routine; I would darken the room, lay him in bed with his dummy, put a hand on his chest and say "have a nice snooze" or "night night, sleep well", maybe with a little shhhh, and then leave the room quietly and this was usually enough; if not, going in once or twice again to do the same thing again usually got him to sleep. He's not swaddled as he is very strong and wriggly and would always fight his way out.

Posted at 8:27 pm