When you are trying to get DC on an eating/sleeping schedule

DD gets into these spurts when she only wants to eat 1 ounce in 1 hour and be hungry again or 2 ounces and then be hungry again in 2 hours..

I am trying to get her on some kind of schedule so she will sleep at night by waking her up every 3 hours during the day to feed her but when she starts eating on this funky schedule im not sure what to do.

Is this something I will not be able to control and she will grow out of, or is there anything that I could do to keep her occupied and not wanting to eat until the 3rd hour? I try and keep her asleep to get her back on the 3 hours but she wakes up and just cries.

She is only 6 weeks and I know it's early but I was just curious.

Re: When you are trying to get DC on an eating/sleeping schedule

she may be going through a growth spurt. What also worked for me, is to feed my DD, play with her and than put her in a stroller and walk/walk. She slept in the stroller, and would often sleep till her next feeding. I would feed/walk until it was time for her to eat again. We did every 3 hrs

Re: When you are trying to get DC on an eating/sleeping schedule

DS was a very erratic eater until a few weeks ago (he's 4.5 months now). Now he eats the same amount, every 3 or 4 hours. But for a long time, he would eat 2 ounces, then 4, then 4 again, then 2, and it followed no rhyme or reason. Some days he would go 3 or 4 hours between feedings, others he wanted to eat almost constantly.

Taking him out helped space out the feedings a bit--he usually didn't want his bottle when we were out. But ultimately, this just had to resolve itself.

Re: When you are trying to get DC on an eating/sleeping schedule

Re: When you are trying to get DC on an eating/sleeping schedule

I really would not worry about it. I M sure she will out grow it. My DS was like this for the first couple of months. I remember when we went to our first Ped appoinTment he said to get him on a 3 hour feeding schedule and I thought to myself, yeah right. I never listened and just fed on demand. It was annoying in the beginning because he would eat an ounce or two and then like your DD daughter he would be hungry soon after. I mean there was one point that he would have like 12 bottles a day. My hands were so chapped from washing bottles.

Before I knew it he fell into his own schedule and he was drinking more and lasting longer between bottles. Just give it some time before you know it your DD will be much more predictable and you will have a great schedule.

Re: When you are trying to get DC on an eating/sleeping schedule

Re: When you are trying to get DC on an eating/sleeping schedule

We never really tried. We just let him ease into a schedule. I can't remembr exactly when it clicked but I feel it was best that we not stress about forcing the issue.