Help with routine..

[Momma`Kat]

Ok this is alanna's current routine..

7:30 - 7oz bottle
8:30 - Cereal
Nap
10am - 7oz Bottle
12Noon - Pureed somthing
1pm - 6oz Bottle
Nap
4/4:30pm - 7oz Bottle
5pm - Pureed something (Not every day)
6/6:30pm - Bath
7pm - Bed

Thing is.. Cause her last bottle is at 4 in the afternoon she will wake up at 4am! She just gets given a dummy and i was hoping she would learn to sleep through till her bottle at 7:30 but its not working Lol

I have tried giving her a bottle after her bath but shes either too sleepy and grumpy and dont want it, or she will guzzle it and throw up!

Ideas?

 

[LilyMac]

Have you tried skipping the 4pm feed and just giving a dummy then feeding after bath? Or dream feeding about an hour after she goes to sleep? That's all I can think of really, didn't have to try anything else with A so I don't know any other ways!!

 

[Momma`Kat]

She gets really grumpy for her 4pm feed cause she had a nap so its hard for me to skip it ive tried, and i havent mastered dream feeding, she always wakes up or just doesnt feed atall! >.<

 

[Lacey's Mummy]

Yours is very similar to our's. I've recently stopped his 4pm bottle and will give him food at 4.15 instead then he takes his whole bedtime bottle at 6.30 and hasnt had a night feed in a week. Could you maybe bath her slightly earlier but drag it out abit or does her bath make her sleepy?

 

[Momma`Kat]

Thats a good idea LM, Didnt think of giving her food instead >.< I just being careful to make sure she still gets enough formula cause shes so little, but will give that a try tomorrow! thanks As for bath, depends on her mood, sometimes she will onlyput up with it for 5 minutes, othertimes she will play for 20 heh

 

[Lacey's Mummy]

I normally bath charley during the day but top and tail him as part of his bedtime routine instead.
Here's our routine, give or take half hour
7.30 bottle
8.00 breakfast
9.00 nap
10.30 bottle
11.30 nap
12.30 lunch
2.00 bottle
3.00 nap
4.15 dinner
6.30 bedtime routine and bottle

Since I've dropped his 4pm bottle but give him dinner earlier, he's been sleeping better. Dont know if it's coincidence though!
Also he only naps for a max of 30 mins and their starting to get less through the day x.

 

[xxClaire_24xx]

have you tried a dreamfeed? we used to find Ellie wouldn last long after her 7pm feed ( she would go to 3am or 4am) now we dreamfeed before we go to bed wither 11pm or 12 midnight and that is her to 7am or half 7 xx

 

[AugustMum]

I agree with LM, just swap the bottle with the food and give her the bottle a little later. Failing that, maybe give her half the bottle and a bit of puree and then give her the other half of the bottle after bath time? It baffles me that she only has 3 bottles a day at 3 months old! Paige was still having a bottle every 2-3 hours until about 6 months lol! (she asked for the bottles mind).

 

[Momma`Kat]

I agree with LM, just swap the bottle with the food and give her the bottle a little later. Failing that, maybe give her half the bottle and a bit of puree and then give her the other half of the bottle after bath time? It baffles me that she only has 3 bottles a day at 3 months old! Paige was still having a bottle every 2-3 hours until about 6 months lol! (she asked for the bottles mind).

Read it again, Shes not only having 3 bottles lol. She has 4, every three hours.

 

[megsmeadow]

I think like the others said giving her puree at the 4-5ish mark. I know you said you don't want to drop formula, but have you tried giving her a little water with her puree, maybe just enough to make her feel like her tummy is full but not as hard to process as milk so you can go on to give her her full bottle before bed so she's still having the same amount of formula over the day? Not sure I explained that one very well, hope you get what I mean!

 

[AugustMum]

True.

 

[Momma`Kat]

Thanks MM , will try water

 

[xxClaire_24xx]

this is Ellies routine

7.30 5 oz bottle
nap (falls asleep in pram going to the school run with Mia)
11am 5oz bottle and some puree fruit
play time for about an hour and some physio
12noon - 1pm 5oz bottle
nap
4pm 5oz bottle and her dinner
7pm bath and 5oz bottle and then bed
dreamfeed at midnight (ish) and thats her til 7.30am

of course she doesnt sleep all the time between the feeds lol we play or go walks or she just contents herself in her bumbo etc

but all babies are diff and this might just be the routine that Alanna had got herself into??

 

[Momma`Kat]

yeah this is what shes sorted out herself, she started going to bed earlier all by herself she used to have a bath then a bottle a couple hours later for bed and was fine, but now that she wants to sleep at 7 its messed it up !

 

[xxClaire_24xx]

yeah this is what shes sorted out herself, she started going to bed earlier all by herself she used to have a bath then a bottle a couple hours later for bed and was fine, but now that she wants to sleep at 7 its messed it up !

wee bissoms arent they lol do you get to bed early when Alanna goes down or are you like me and still up ar midnight haha

 

[Momma`Kat]

yeah this is what shes sorted out herself, she started going to bed earlier all by herself she used to have a bath then a bottle a couple hours later for bed and was fine, but now that she wants to sleep at 7 its messed it up !

wee bissoms arent they lol do you get to bed early when Alanna goes down or are you like me and still up ar midnight haha

Lol nah im rubbish im up till 11 atleast normally!

 

[xxClaire_24xx]

aw im the same I always say right im going to bed earlier then Im either on this or watching tv and im a sucker for CSI and what is it tonight CSI Sunday til 1am lol