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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you will get a lot of different views on this, but I doubt your ped was trying to say it's not good for the baby if he eats every 30 mins or that the baby is gaining too much weight or something. Rather, it's just that eating every 30 mins-1 hr is not sustainable for YOU, and it's not necessary for the baby. I'd try to space out the feedings for your own sanity. Baby will probably eat more at each feed if you move to that.[/quote]

OP here. How do I do that if he is crying before the two hours? Make him wait?[/quote]

This is not always a binary choice. Let him cry or feed him. It isn't all or nothing you don't have to go from every 30 minutes to two hours. But instead of jumping to feeding at 30 minutes, hold him, walk around with him, try to stimulate him in some other way. And that might only work for 10 minutes at first, but just keep stretching it out little by little.

I didn't 'sleep train' any of my kids, in the way where I had to let them cry for hours (and FTR, I think this is because my kids were predisposed to decent sleep), but the way I was able to do that was by starting to just  edge them little by little towards a schedule from day 1. That didn't mean standing there and watching them while they cried for a half hour, sometimes it meant just going on a walk instead of feeding them, buying 20-30 minutes that way. Subtle redirection. Every week it will work a little better than the last but training yourself to just pause when they cry, wait, try to delay them if possible, that helps. IME you can always buy some time with a bath or with a walk, water and outdoors distract them![/quote]

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