10 weeks! Emily is doing a lot better with eating without crying, so hopefully the trend continues. The color coded schedule has also been useful already too. So far there’s a very clear eating pattern. She’s got feedings at (on average) 12:30 am, 5:45 am, 8:30 am, 11:15 am, 2:15 pm, 5:30 pm, and 9:30 pm. That means her feedings are spaced out by 5.25h, 2.75h, 2.75h, 3.0h, 3.25h, 4.0h and 3.0h. It also means that technically she’s only got one overnight feeding, if you consider a normal adult sleep as being from 10:00 pm to 5:30 am. From what I’ve read, it’s more normal to still have two overnight feedings, but we’ve worked it out somehow anyway. To be fair, I’ve started going back to sleep after the 5:45 am feeding, which was one of my better decisions of parenting thus far!
Emily is already bustin’ buttons on one of her newborn outfits!