Wait for her to cry?

[Laura--x]

Do you wait for your lo to cry before giving them a bottle or do you feed them at the first sign their hungry, eg sucking fists ect?

Atm i feed Maisie when i see her start to get hungry, she sucks her fists and nuzzles her mouth into her shoulder, i leave her a few mins then feed her, i never wait for her to cry.

Should i wait for her to cry? MIL tells me i should as she will get used to getting things straight away?

 

[Jkelmum]

Do what you think is best for your daughter ...atm Lily crying is first sign she is hungry ..if she is due it will be ready for her but if shes early then she will have to wait while i get it ready xx

 

[lollylou1]

i fed Annabelle at set times hun because she would go hours and hours without showing any sign of wanting a bottle and we was told she wasnt drinking enough so had to do it timed.

if you know her signs to show u she is hungry go by them hun rather than waiting for her to cry it only means you get there a little before

Lou
xxx

 

[HannahGraceee]

I feed her as soon as she shows any sign of hunger eg sucking her first, pecking at me lol
it breaks my heart every time she crys for it lol

 

[Arcanegirl]

i go by any first sign he is hungry, which sometimes is crying.

 

[whiby]

We don't get any warning, one minute he seems fine and the next he's crying! Ethan has only in the last day or two started to suck his fingers, but he does that when he's not hungry too (e.g. if his dummy falls out he sometimes sucks his fingers and goes to sleep) so its a bit hard to tell at the moment. I would start preparing feeds at first sign of hunger tho so its ready ASAP.

 

[Tegans Mama]

I used to feed her at first sign if I had it ready, but if it wasn't ready she would have to wait and in the small space of two minutes she would be crying.

 

[caggimedicine]

I would feed Harry as soon as he showed signs that he was hungry.

 

[AHB238]

We do a mixture not through planning though....

Grace is sucking her fingers quite a lot at the minute as she is starting to teeth, so it's hard to tell but more recently she has started chomping on her tongue when she wants her bottle, so as soon as I see her doing that i get it ready and majority of the time do it then but sometimes she doesn't do that she goes from being OK to screaming.

 

[princess_bump]

i used to feed maddi by her signs, like the sucking and also the times, as she got into quite a good feeding routine, it wasn't very often she'd actually cry for food x

 

[Vickie]

never waited for Hannah to cry but she was not a big milk drinker and if we waited we would have been waiting forever at times!

 

[faille]

Bit of both.

Sometimes I'll be really organised and have the bottle ready (she's predictable with her feeding times) and as soon as she wakes up for instance, it's there.

And other times I'll forget the time and she'll start crying and it's just tough.. She'll have to wait until it's ready! It's ok tho because she recognises her bib and knows what that means.. I just use the time to play with her, it's only rarely she'll keep crying. I don't think there's any harm in that.. hopefully it'll teach her some patience (I know she's too young at the mo, but start as you mean to go on and all that).

 

[Mum2b_Claire]

There's no point in waiting for her to cry - she's way too young to 'get used to having things right away'!

 

[Dukechick]

I do both with my little one. I read a lot NOT to wait for them to cry.... but that's what happens most of the time with me. Sometime it comes out of nowhere! LOL