Mami tried to think why Alyssa drink so little (one of the record she had is that she was being last feed at 5am and then until 5pm the next day, she drank only 150ml. Gosh... so little milk, this baby girl must be on diet) during the day and wake up one/two times during the night (sometimes at 1am and then at 5am) to nurse. This is indeed very tough for a working Mum!!!
One of the thought was what if we bottle feed Alyssa solely (instead of breast feed) at home for 1-2 days during the weekend to see how much milk she drink. One amazing thing we found out last Saturday was that Alyssa drank indeed not so much during the day (may be also just 150ml during the day) but she could drink a lot in one go at night before sleep (she could consume 290ml in one go!!!!!!!!).
Several amazing things happened after this experiment:
1. Sleep through the night for one night since the last 1.5 months - Amazing thing that happened at Saturday night is that she could sleep through the night ever since Mami got back to work. However, even though Alyssa could sleep through the night, Papi and Mami was so used to get up twice at night, we woke up even Alyssa was sleeping.
2. Drink more than 200ml last week in the daycare centre (within 9 hours of her stay there).
3. Seems to gain a little bit better weight. Alyssa gained only 1 kg for the last 3 months. But she seems to gain more last few days.
However, this magic spell of sleeping through the night was not working continuously last week during the weekdays. But it gives us a new insight of how to tackle Alyssa's drinking and sleeping problem.
Mami thinks may be Alyssa finally realizes that she need to drink bottle at home too and there is no point to wait until getting home to drink from the breast. Therefore, then she drinks more during the day at the daycare.
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