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My husband and I work together for each shift. Our little man is 6 weeks old, and varies in his sleeping. Sometimes he'll sleep for a 5 hour stretch, and other nights he only sleeps for 3 hours at a time. I'll get him up, nurse him on one boob, then my husband will burp him, change him, and give him back to me for the other boob. We've gotten the routine down, so each night time feeding is only 30-40 minutes, and then right back to bed.My husband gets up at 5:50 to get ready for work, so if our son wakes up at 5 I let me husband sleep.
Handling "night" feedings between partners 😴💤😐
Our LO is 4 weeks old. He's our 4the, but our other kiddos are almost 13, and twins almost 10. So we're back in baby territory!
As far as nights go, we have tried: *rotating days, where every other night we trade off and sleep a full night. But our LO has silent reflux, and it def wears one out. So.. Now we're trying: "shifts" Aka: one of us lays down at like 9pm-2am and then the other lays down from 2am-7am. Or something similar. Hubbys the night owl, and I like to go to bed early. This way we're both getting at least 5hours of sleep a night, if not more, bc we can obviously sleep when baby sleeps too.
I'm a sahm and his job, he's able to make his own hours for the most part. So early morning work schedules doesn't affect night feedings/wakings. We do have two kids to get up for school at 7am and to take to the bus.
I'm wondering how you and your partner handles night time baby care. Maybe someone has a better way! I'd love to hear how you do it!
Do you trade nights? Split nights? Do every other feeding? Nap in the day time?
Oh... And our LO still eats every 3hrs. Some nights every 2.5 hrs. So after a change, a feed, and back to sleep, sometimes an hr has passed! (He's a CRAZY HARD burper!) It can take a while to do night time feedings!
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I handle nights because he works, but my LO is only up once during the night now. It was rough when it was every 2 hours, but he works all day and is a nightmare when he doesn't sleep so I let him.
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Thats like us too. Sometimes in the evening or first thing in the morning my SO will get up to change diaper etc. But Im not sure how long LO is going to allow him to just hold her....last night she was having none of being apart from me. I like it, but they dont have much time to bond.
I let SO sleep right from day one. He works 5-6 days a week and gets cranky if he runs on too little sleep so its worth it to me to take one for the team. We typically will come up to bed after the 8-9pm feed and generally stay upstairs sleeping between feeds until the 8-9am feed. In the end i get enough sleep even if it happens to be in 2-3 hour increments.
That schedule is pretty much exactly what me and my husband do with our 2.5 week old. It works well for us! It's a lot easier for my husband because he can fall asleep in like two minutes and it takes me forever to fall back asleep but I love my 4 hours of sleeping from 10-2. 😍
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***sleep... its awful that i look forward to sleep like i used to look forward to starting the day lmao. i kno its temporary tho. ya dont kno how much ya miss something til its gone! haha
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