Night time routine

I also have a 3 week old daughter and I am exclusively breastfeeding. My partner changes all her nappies at night, and then sometimes if I’m struggling to settle her down he takes over and I go back to sleep. We have a toddler aswell though so I let him sleep more as he’s in charge of chasing the toddler round 😆

same here

Im on week 7 of doing it alone. Ive even moved out of the bedroom to leave him with the toddler as we still co sleep, i felt so much rage with him snoring away while i was up all night. Im just getting to the point of having more than an hour sleep at a time. Its been a rough few weeks. With our first I used to hand her off to him as soon as I was done feeding for him to do nappies and burping but with a toddler in the room its not worth it.

Have you tried side lying to feed so you can get some rest through the night while feeding?

We do shifts so my partner will stay up with our 5 week old until around midnight and give a bottle of either formula or breast milk. This way I can go to bed at 9 x

Week 6 here and also not pumping. How often are you getting up to feed at night? It was every 2 hours for us until we hit 4 weeks. Nowadays only once around 3/4am, unless you count 6/7am as part of your night

Honestly you’ll just get used to it over time. My husband generally stays up later than I do so he will do the nappy change at midnight/1am, then I’ll feed and nappy change 3x until we’re both fully awake for the day (after 9am)

I’m exclusively bf our 4 week old and tbh I would just rather he slept and was a bit more “with it”.
He works 14 hour days so really he needs to be resting. But he does do the school run in the morning and will take the baby after her first feed in the morning so I can grab an extra hour or two before he starts work. When he gets home late at night, he’ll change her nappy and get her ready for her next feed. (We’re normally asleep when he comes home and it lines up quite well with her feeding times)

Helping at either end makes a big difference! If baby is awake when I want to sleep then he’ll take him downstairs and rock him to sleep, then in the morning he’ll take him after first feed for nappy change etc so I can catch up on a few hours at either end. He also sleeps in the toddlers bed half the night.