we gradually lowered the temp of the bottle that we were feeding Julia until she took her bottle cold. (eventually she got to where she would take that bottle whatever temperature it happened it be). So, each night we would make up the night's bottles, chill them, and put them in an insulated lunchbag with some icepacks. Then, when she would wake in the night, we'd just grab a cold bottle out of the bag. This was handy both for when we were sleeping with her out in the club chair in the living room (for the first 4 months -- it was hell) and for when we would bring her to our bed and lay her in the boppie. We always stayed awake while she ate the bottle (to hold her close to us, semi-upright, and to burp her later) but it was much less disruption to the night than having to let her cry while heating up a bottle in the kitchen. This way we didn't even have to turn up the lights...
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Date: 2007-08-14 05:02 pm (UTC)Trista
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