u/qwertyuiopbloom

What in the world do you mean when you are getting them ready for bed? Isn’t “bed” all the time at this stage?

Should we be adjusting our routine to establish better habits??

Right now our almost 2 month old is doing 4oz every 3 hours but we do try to get 4 hour stretches somewhere between 11pm and 7am depending on when the feeds fall.

I was thinking of trying to adjust the around 7pm wake period to include a face/ hair wash to pretend like I know what people mean when they post “before bed” or “getting ready for bed”. I do usually do this at least every other day but should I start setting a time for it?

We do a bath every 4 days or so. Should we increase/ do just water baths? He doesn’t mind the bath but doesn’t appreciate the drying off portion as much.

We have him basically living in sleepers even when we go out for doctor appts. We haven’t gone out really anywhere else yet due to reasons so we’re not changing him into summer clothes so no reason to change him into another sleeper for bedtime. (I did order a summer outfit bc I’d like to start being more ambitious!)

We do tummy time / play / reading whenever he stays awake after a feed.

Are there more things we should be doing to “set him up for success”?

5 week old is currently on RTF Enfamil gentlease with slightly thick oatmeal cereal thickener. He’s been still having some symptoms of reflux but our main reason for the thickener is due to aspiration shown on a swallow study which effected his o2%.

We just got the go ahead to switch to Gelmix but obviously it is tricky to get right.

He’s been having pretty bad gas and possibly some constipation with the oatmeal cereal and we’ve given it weeks to hopefully subside but it hasn’t :(

Ideally, we would like to batch make it. Gelmix website says you can. I understand that it can thicken overtime.

Does anyone have experience with how much? Like if we IDDSI test to just 1ml when we make it, in how long would it thicken to 4ml? We thicken to about 2ml right now.

Im thinking of switching to powder formula to be able to thicken the water properly and after add in the formula. Would this work?

The website says that thickened water can be stored at room temp for 24 hours. When ready to feed, just mix in powder formula.

The reason for this is that if we mess up the thickening process, we waste the gelmix and just water rather than gelmix and formula which add$ up!

I appreciate any advice or tips/tricks! :)