We finally tried ECing at night! After traveling for the holidays dd was not spoiling us with her usual 7-9 hours of straight sleep and began waking every two hours or so (now I have more empathy for the average parent, yawn!), so I decided to try ECing at night - we've been catching many pees and almost all poop for two months now during the day. Since vacation, she's been waking and nursing big time every two hours or so and we changed her double diaper once around 2 am (we did this before the nightwaking thing stared, she just kept sleeping before). For the past two nights I've pee'd her when she wakes and she nurses a bit and goes back to sleep. I'll add here the reason I've been wary of peeing her at night - I am supplementing her breastmilk with a formula in a LactAid (we adopted dd). Dh or I have to get up and warm the bag, I have to tape it on and then she nurses. I've been wary of waking her to pee because I was afraid she'd want to nurse with the bag. All this waking at night has increased my milk supply. If she's not looking for a big meal, my milk supply will now satisfy her and for the past two nights ECing, she has only needed the "bag" late in the night. Wow...
I get to go back to sleep sooner with ECing because she's more comfy? Even after changing her diaper I'd have to use the supplement if she woke before we started night ECing.
Now I have a night peeing question...will she start peeing less often as we do the night thing more? She pee'd last night the first time at 3;30 (we went to bed at 10:00), and then once an hour after that. Is this a similar pattern to what you all have experienced? The night before (our first EC night) she pee'd every 2 hrs, then once an hour after 3...gosh I do better with more sleep. We are catching most of the night pees and I love that she's not in that big, fat diaper (she's lean and it is a comical sight!), and I'm wondering if her pee's will continue to come at such a high frequency in the mornings.
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I get to go back to sleep sooner with ECing because she's more comfy? Even after changing her diaper I'd have to use the supplement if she woke before we started night ECing.Now I have a night peeing question...will she start peeing less often as we do the night thing more? She pee'd last night the first time at 3;30 (we went to bed at 10:00), and then once an hour after that. Is this a similar pattern to what you all have experienced? The night before (our first EC night) she pee'd every 2 hrs, then once an hour after 3...gosh I do better with more sleep. We are catching most of the night pees and I love that she's not in that big, fat diaper (she's lean and it is a comical sight!), and I'm wondering if her pee's will continue to come at such a high frequency in the mornings.
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Oh how I can't wait until it goes to a normal poop time of say... 9 am.
