23/01/2024
Cluster feeding is so normal 👶🏼
This is true for TODDLERS AS WELL
Often babies will want to cluster feed (feed frequently) in the early evening and may not settle to sleep easily 💤
Early to mid ( or sometimes late evening) is the most common time of day for babies and young children to flick the switch 😱 It’s most likely an important part of their development.
How to cope 👉🏻
✅ Accepting that the time from 5.00pm or so onwards is going to be busy and stressful. YOU are not alone.
✅ If you get baby down for an afternoon nap, ditch the housework and have a cup of tea and a rest instead, so you'll have more energy for unsettled times later on.
✅ Realising that sometimes there is no solution other than to hold them, cuddle them, feed them and wait for it to pass.
✅ Trying to have dinner ready as early as possible so you can feed the kids early if they are tired. Or, forgetting about the proper cooked meal and giving them scrambled eggs or spaghetti on toast! 🍳
✅Cooking double on days you are home so you have meals in the freezer (thank heaven for microwaves).
✅ Going 'incommunicado' while you do dinner, bath, bed - letting the phone go to voice mail and not answering texts/Facebook etc so we can concentrate on getting the little ones settled.
✅ Handing the baby over to your partner or whoever is around when you feel yourself 'boiling over'. Sometimes they need to be held by someone who is a bit calmer or even put in their pram and taken for a walk.
Reposting because who doesn't need this reminder 🤱🏼💤
Tell me how YOU cope, trust me another mama somewhere in this world needs to hear what you have to say 💋