how to change evening routine
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Topic: how to change evening routine
Posted By: myfullhouse
Subject: how to change evening routine
Date Posted: 14 September 2009 at 8:06am
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Our normal routine at night for Ben is he feeds on and off with 10min naps from about 6.30/7pm till we go to bed at 9.30pm-ish and then he is generally asleep by 10.30pm. He will then usually sleep for 6+hrs - I am definately not complaining!
But I am hoping to get my evenings back so was thinking to put him to bed about 7.30pm (after I put Jack down) and dream feed him at about 10pm. Any suggestions about how I make the change? Do I go cold turkey and make the change? Or do I change gradually and if so how/when do I introduce the dream feed? I am not sure how to go about it as the few times that he has had 30-45min naps in the evenings he has woken at least twice in the night. ------------- Lindsey 
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Posted By: Febgirl
Date Posted: 14 September 2009 at 11:11am
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Do you have a bedtime routine e.g. dinner, bath, story, bed for Jack? If so then I would just get Ben into a similar routine as he's a few months old now - can you bath them together, then get DH to put Jack to bed while you feed Ben (or feed him while DH reads Jack a story?), then put Ben to bed? It might take a little while to get the logistics sorted out but it will be worthwhile in the long run... ------------- Two little girls under 2! 
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Posted By: Febgirl
Date Posted: 14 September 2009 at 11:13am
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And with the dreamfeed thing, just start introducing it before you go to bed, say around 10pm? If it doesn't work and Ben wakes at his usual time (4am - 5am?) keep perservering, it took us a good few weeks before DD dropped the middle of the night feed even with a dreamfeed. ------------- Two little girls under 2!
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Posted By: SpecialK
Date Posted: 14 September 2009 at 1:47pm
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Linzy, we introduced the dreamfeed at 9 weeks and got our evenings back that same week! Basically, his routine from 9 weeks has been: feed at 6pm, top up, bath, massage, cuddles and in bed by 7pm. His dreamfeed is at 10-10.30pm. I do give him a formula top up so that helps as otherwise he wouldn't sleep from 7pm to 10ish pm as my milk supply is pretty non existent in the evenings. For a couple of weeks he still woke up around 4am for a feed, but started sleeping through at 12 weeks. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: myfullhouse
Date Posted: 14 September 2009 at 2:12pm
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we have a night time routine for Jack but I have to do almost all of it as Jack will not let DH put him down to bed anymore and I have to stay with him until he is asleep - a result of Ben's arrival I think.
I am out tonight (and so is Ben) so might try the change cold turkey tomorrow night ------------- Lindsey
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