Breastfeeding .and co-sleeping? Burp and change baby..or drift off to sleep?
I was always taught.feed, burp, change.feed, burp, change.but it seems so intrusive after baby (and maybe you) have peacefully drifted off
What do you do?
Answer:
Many breastfed babies don't need to be burped. If you nurse the baby before he gets upset and is crying, he isn't likely to swallow any air if he is latched on correctly. After all, breasts don't have air in them like bottles. :-)
If baby poops, then yes, he'll need to be changed. If his diaper is super wet and in danger of soaking through, he'll need to be changed. If it's just a little wet, better to leave it and let him sleep unless there are some skin problems going on.
Sleep when you can! Unless baby has a dirty diaper, you both need the sleep more than anything else!
Sarah
(mother of 5!)
I normally drift off when nursing this way, but as soon as she lets go, I do burp her.which leads to waking her up some, so I also change her then as well. I then nurse on the other side, which is generally only to get her comfortably back to sleep and put her to bed after that. To help, I have found a quiet place at night with very dim lighting to change her by.keeps her semi-asleep.
If the baby has fallen asleep then I say let him sleep... co sleeping is very dangerous though! I know people do it, but so many things can happen. I say transport the baby back to his/her bed. If he has gas it may come out with all the re adjusting. I bottle fed so I really can't relate. I changed before I fed, if they fell asleep then I burped as I carried them to bed and it seemed to work well.
Well don't drift off 2 sleep especially with a baby in your arms a neighbor of mine did this & she ended up crushing her poor baby & she got charged with murder so be very careful.If U do set a clock so you can get the baby in clean diaper & in his or her own bed.Good Luck
I had a co-sleeper attached to the bed so once he was asleep I could move him to his sleep space without getting out of bed myself and minimal risk of waking him. I didn't bother burping him (less necessary w/breastfeeding) or changing his diaper overnight unless it had a BM or was very full of urine. The co-sleeper was such a great idea, I wish I had it for my first son too!
I am a mom of two and am nursing right now. I was told by my doc and have read that breast feed babies are much less gassy than bottlefeed babies. When i fall sleep nursing i dont burp her and she is fine and i never change diapers in the middle of the night either unless they are already awake. both my two year old and two month old sleep through the night ( the two month old only wakes up to be fed and goes right back to sleep) I would never dream of waking her up to change or burp her . She obviously must be happy if shes asleep and if she does need to be burped or changed she'll let you know (trust me!)
That's only if baby is wet ,when he/she wakes you up.You feel inside the diaper and see if it's still good to go another wee round.
Of course it may seem a slight damp.But thats most likely from sweat.They are plastic you know.II would say you change first if neccessary.Then feed.
Those gown draw string pajamas are the best for newborns and young infants Speaking of which (I don't whats wrong with those
people anyways.(they make that draw string often too large.
Your best trimming it down and re knotting it.If you use one that seems so.Just a diaper and a blanket wrap (like hospitals,not as tight )may work .But people are thinking of barrier .New born infants manage to ooze out of every diaper regardless.Use
crib matts After you feed him/her /you usually burp him/her
unless your lucky to have a auto burper as I once had.
If the baby isn't dirty I would not wake them to change them, but if they do then yes. I breastfed my babies this way and I would change them first if they needed it, and I would also pat their back with my hand I was not laying on to burp them. That way I did not have to wake them up after they went to sleep.
if I knew (I didn't bf but pumped) he was about to wake up, I'd change his diaper, he would get fussy if he was the tiniest bit wet after a feeding, so this mostly solved it. After awhile, he'd burp himself or wouldn't have to burp so that also solved it. Don't listen to cosleeping horror stories, I'm sure you know how to do it safely. Babies die in cribs too people!
i don't think you should sleep when you are breastfeeding her, i watched this one show, Law and Order, and a mom fell asleep on her child while breastfeeding and killed her child by suffocating her, though it was just a fake show it was still scary.
That was always another beauty of breastfeeding for me...I NEVER burped my babies, because there was no need to do it! For the most babies nursing is such a 'closed system' that air is not introduced into the stomach like with bottle feeding. Now there may be the occasional baby, for whatever reason (like nasal congestion) who stops sucking and gets in a mouth breath, but not very often... If the baby is older and is not having little bowel movements with every diaper, just SLEEP! Full tummy for baby, more rest for mom!!
Breast feeding laying down is sometimes the only way us moms can get any rest, which is very important for milk production! I wouldn't worry about burping the baby until he/she wakes up, and same with the diaper change (unless of course it's a dirty one) And as for co-sleeping being dangerous...rubbish! Very few moms even move when the baby is in the bed, and as for crushing them or suffocating them, I've never heard of it happening! So unless the mom has drank alcohol or done any type of drug, I wouldn't worry about it. I myself have nursed and co-slept with my babies and they've always woken up healthy and happy!
Just watch out for those tossy-turny dads in the bed, they don't have the same instinct as us moms to know the baby is there!
I got my baby into a three to four hour feeding schedual. I would breast feed, burp, and change his pants if needed. At the begining i had to give him breast milk in a bottle to calculate how much he was getting in since he was six weeks premature. I find it so much easier to breast feed. If i get up walk to the kitchen with a screaming baby i was more awake than if i got up walked back to bed and fed him. Plus feeding with a bottle for me put more air in his belly and took longer to burp and made him more fussy. Where as with breast feeding, he just falls right back to sleep. I recommend reading "baby wise". It teaches you to train your baby to sleep through the night and still have him be healthy. Good luck!
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