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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