Daddy needs to be trained…

For nearly 3 years now, Connor has been doing a good job of training us.  Now it’s Jacob’s turn to train us.

Jacob has been doing much better with the acid reflux over the past 3 weeks.  Once last week he slept nearly 9 hours giving Mommy and Daddy a much needed and deserved rest.  For the past couple of weeks, Jacob wakes up around 2am for a late night feeding and then promptly goes back to bed and wakes up around 7am the next morning.  Mommy handles the night shift during the week and Daddy handles the night shift on the weekend.  That has been working quite well for us.

Over the last couple of weeks, we have noticed that Jacob was getting fussy around 7:30pm.  We would try to comfort him, but he seemed to be agitated/frustrated.  We have been going through the same routine…change the diaper, walk him around, rock him, shhh him, etc…  Nothing seemed to work.  So after about 30 minutes of doing this, we then would break out the bottle.  Normally Jacob drinks 4-5 ounces…during this feeding, he takes about 2-3 ounces and then promptly falls asleep while being burped on my shoulder.

So you may ask why don’t’t we “go for the bottle” sooner?!?!?!  Well, it is because he usually goes 4+ hours in between feedings and he usually gets fed around 5:30pm or 6pm.  Then he starts to get fussy around 7:30pm…that is only 1.5 to 2 hours…way too early.  Well, it has taken two weeks and basically the time change for Daddy to realize that Jacob wanted to be “topped” off before he went to bed.  This evening Jacob got fed 5 ounces at 5pm…then at 6pm (only 1 hour later) he starts to get fussy.  Remember with the time change, it really feels like 7pm to Jacob.  So, I prep a bottle and give it to him.  2.5 ounces, burp, and he’s out.

I then took him upstairs and put him to bed.

Ok Jacob…I get it…top you off at 7:30pm and then put you to bed…

Love,

Daddy