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On Sunday 24 March 2002 19:08 pm, Pat Young wrote:
> Depends on how "newborn", how yellow :-) and how wet and dirty the
> diapers!! If baby is a week or two old, has sufficient wet and dirty
> diapers and is past jaundice, I say Bless them if they sleep 3-5 hours
> at a stretch at night. I don't totally believe in letting very
> newborns decide when to eat, sometimes they need some good, motherly
> judgement on when they need to eat again, until we are sure they have
> the hang of the whole thing (sufficient wet and dirty diapers, growing
> and thriving) Sincerely, Pat in SNJ
I second that. There were times during my daughter's first week of life
that I'd have called her "happy to starve." She was sleepy from a
combination of mag sulfate during labor, a dose of Stadol early in
labor, being barely term (37 weeks but she definitely was not ready to
have been born; I was induced for borderline pre-eclampsia) and being
SGA. It took her a few days to get to a point that she'd wake up and
give hungry cues. If she hadn't wakened to nurse on her own by 3 to 3.5
hours, we attempted to wake her to nurse. Once she finally cleared
everything out of her system she did nurse around every 2-3 hours on her
own accord, even through the night. Just my own personal experience.
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Elisa H. Casey
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