When the
feeding every 3h rules is not helping anymore?

This kind of confusion often leads parents to either :

- wake their baby unnecessarily

- worry, feel frustrated

- try to fix a problem that isn’t actually a problem — like when babies ask for a feed only after one hour and a half, create digestive overload

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It creates worry and keeps parents from truly watch and read their baby. It delay the beginning the journey of understanding their baby and decoding their needs in a helpful, connected way. It puts parents and babies apart.

FEW CASES YOU CAN STILL FIND 3H HELPFUL FOR YOU AS THE CARER

Overall, giving parents a rigid, strict feeding schedule to follow was not helping.
But some parents out their will find it helpful, for themself.
Because it was one of the thing that help them: 

• structure their mind in that vertiginous unknown era

• help them visualise and organise their day ahead.

but in terms of making the baby gain weight more efficiently — it wasn’t helping.

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What works at that point — when your baby has enough weight and is fully mature (because that’s what we mean by full term born) — is that they are mature enough to ask for a feed when they need it.

And the reason why I say we can trust them. We can rely on them to express what they need and when they need it, it’s because here is what is happening.