Im finding it hard to get some sort of routine happening with breastfeeding! for some reason when i formula fed DD1 it was easy to get routine feeding times happening! but this time round im breastfeeding and feel im feeding alot! i know she is only little still, but soon will i be able to get a routine? Know the times she will need a feed? or will i always just keep offering her some when ever she gets a bit whingy?! Its prob because breast feeding is so convienient that when ever she gets whingy i just pop her on and off we go!
I have a BF'd 13 month old and we still don't have any kind of routine happening! I'm not saying it can't happen but it never did for us! Although, in saying that, I am not really a person who lives by routine most of the time so it's probably my fault!
Once things settled down, we got into a routine. I am a very routined sort of person, that helped.
It just takes time if that's the way you want to go.
We eventually settled down into a Breakfast, MT, lunch, AT, Dinner and Bedtime.
I think I was also very lucky as DD and DS2 were very easy going babies, so if we were out, they were happy and content to look around or sleep.
I FF fed DS1, I think that helped me in some way work out what worked with timing.
It's whatever works best for you and your little one, sometimes if she was upset while we were out, I would feed her, that didn't happend very often, so I was very lucky.
This is my third time bfing and i'm still wondering the same thing. I seem to be demand bfing more than i ever did with the boys. I take no notice of the clock what so ever except for at night when i'm more so checking how much sleep i was able to get. I sometimes wonder the same as you, if what i am doing is just soothing a grumpy bub with a feed but she feeds and seems hungry most times
I'm hoping we fall into something soon where i don't seem to be feeding so often, i did with the boys so i think i will with this one too. I didn't check the age of your little one but if it's early days just go with it for now and if need be you can try and stretch things out when you feel it's time.
I had a total routine going for BF DD when she was little. Took a bit to get going though. DS is roughly the same age as your DD, and we're not in a routine yet - still pretty much doing what you're doing and demand feeding. It should all settle in the next few weeks to start getting a routine going. I'll be guided by what DS wants though. It seems that he's after extra feeds in the morning and right before bed at this stage.
Maybe see if there are any patterns and that's a start....
Well i'm going to say YES IT IS
I didnt try any sort of routine with ds until he was 4 months. I figured he was still a little baby before then and needed to be fed on demand. It took about a week to establish a routine that worked for us both and it was great as it meant i could leave him with DH and go out by myself and know how long before i had to come home instead of rushing to do everything just in case. Of a night though, i demand fed and comfort fed. It wasnt exactly the same every day and it changed as he started to drop sleeps but i would definately say we had a routine going.
I'm hoping to do the same with dd once she is older but it seems she has beat me to it and established her own routine which is fine by me
Can you get into a routine breast feeding?
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