What should be my schedulel for the new baby?

Question

Hello,

I am going to be a mother in about a month or two and I want to know the best ways to keep up with your baby like for example

when to wake up with the baby and it's time to feed the baby and much more i just want know some good advice about that

and if your wondering it's a girl!

Answer 1

you'll just have to follow her lead for the first little bit.  Feed her when she's hungry, change her when she's dirty, talk to her a lot, play with her the few minutes a day that she'll be awake.  Other than that, newborns pretty much sleep all the time so sleep when she does...that's the most important thing.

Answer 2

With all due respect to Violet and Mariah W, the let ‘sleeping babies lie’ approach is the worst thing to do for a newborn. My experience is with two preemies, but the principle holds true for full term babies as well; the period of the first weeks after birth is considered a critical developmental point. Usually the issue is most concerned with post-natal weight, but in the case of my preemies there was the additional muscular and brain development complication. If this is your first child, take heart that you should receive pretty good starter information when you and baby are discharged, including that your baby will need feedings every two to three hours the first two weeks. This is EVERY two-three hours a day, and should explain the 3 a.m. feeding cliché.

Don’t count on what may come naturally, most parents can’t distinguish baby’s poopy-cry from their hungry-cry for a few days, some mothers lactate non-stop on no discernible schedule (my first preemie), and others not at all (my second preemie). Regardless, you’d do your child a better service to wake her for her regular feedings the first two weeks at least. These will be tiresome, exhausting weeks because of it, but it is best to know and be prepared. You didn’t mention your family status, and I won’t guess; if you have another person to help, you’ll need them. We alternated feeding hours during the night and took turns every other day.

By week three a more regular, extended feeding cycle should be noticed, and if not it’s okay to force it a little so long as she is healthy. Usually by then four-five hours is normal. Best of luck to you, and here’s a link I found I thought would help. Being a dad, my opinion may not be taken as seriously without support.

Answer 3

Newborns don't really have schedules. Their needs are pretty simple.  The most important thing is to respond to those needs consistently and lovingly. You'll learn very quickly to interpret her different cries, body language, and other signals.  Feed her when she is hungry. If you're nursing, it will come naturally after a while. You'll be so attuned to her that you'll just know what to do.  The first few weeks, it's best not to interfere with her sleep schedule by waking her up.  (It's really hard to wake a soundly sleeping newborn anyway). Use her nap time to do something else, or get some rest yourself.  As a friend of mine put it "let sleeping babies lie."   Good luck, and enjoy your baby daughter.  They're only newborns for an instant!