Night feeds

[Hunnie]

Another night feed thread. Should I be getting her to cut down on them? Or let her go naturally and follow her lead?

 

[LoopyLouize]

I started thinking this and was going to make a thread like this 3 weeks back, funnily enough she dropped the night feed on her own that night! She's never had one since! X

 

[TORino]

It's up to you hun.
I'm sure there will be people who say either way.

For me, it was preferable not to feed her in the night as I was ending up being awake all night as by the time I had fed her and sat her upright for a while after a feed and then got her back to sleep it was time to get up again. Lol.

I think my LO wakes in the night through habit (she still does but I rarely feed), if you think she is doing it through habit you could gradually reduce it or use another soothing method and watch her weight?

 

[mum2b410]

Ethan reduced and dropped night feeds naturally but still had one feed ay night til about 7months. I felt he was still hungry at night even after 6months and once he started to take more solids it seemed to follow naturally that he wasn't hungry in the night anymore. How often is LO feeding at night hun? X

 

[katie_lou]

Am going to let ruby drop the night feed on her own xx

 

[Hunnie]

I don't actually mind getting up as its usually only once which seems to be at any time from midnight to 4ish and she takes about 15 minutes to feed and get back settled again so not long really.

I just thought I was doing wrong by continuing to feed in the night but she seems hungry and I feel happy to know that she's atleast had two good bottle fulls of milk in the day ( the in the night one and one when she wakes up) as she then seems too interested in anything to have a bottle during the day and especially if we have gone out somewhere x

 

[Mrs N]

If she is hungry, feed her!! i have always taken h's lead and his night feed just got later and later until he now has it at 6 when he wakes for the morning!!
xxx

 

[Hunnie]

That's what I thought mrs n. OH keeps saying to go onto hungry baby milk to get her to sleep through but it doesn't affect him anyway cos he doesn't wake up at all. Thank you all for your advice it's very reassuring xx

 

[Mrs N]

Im in two minds about the hungry baby milk coz on one hand they will go longer but I also think that if they need feeding then they need feeding so just giving them the feeling of a full stomach isnt solving the problem!! DO you use a dummy?? We have a rule were we try 3 times to get him to sleep and if he seems hungry then we will feed but as I say its rare he will have a feed before 5!!
xxxx

 

[Hunnie]

Yeah we use a dummy. Tried that and usually it works if she wakes up between 7 and midnight but after that then she seems genuinely hungry and will sup the whole bottle xx

 

[Olive]

Hey hunnie. Gosh they're similar! Brody is the same. He dropped the feed a few weeks ago but started wanting it again. Am gonna see how we go over next week then try reducing as sometimes he takes just an oz, other times 4oz. I admit I tried HB milk a while ago and it made no difference so don't any more. Xx


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[DW1978]

Jax is still waking for milk and I'm not sure what to do either. My eldest was exactly the same though and just dropped them himself when he was 1 year old. I think the problem is that he doesn't drink enough in the day (3 x 5oz bottles, not always finishing them either) but I just cannot get anymore into him. So, I am still giving him at least 1 and sometimes 2 bottles a night but he always guzzles them down so I figured he must need them? My HV recommended that I start watering the night bottles down and stop feeding him at bedtime, do it before bathtime as she thinks he's linking sleep with a full tummy but quite often, he pushes the betime bottle away and just rolls over and goes to sleep with no milk so surely her idea can't be correct?

 

[Olive]

Interesting that your hv recommended watering down feeds lw. I asked about that yest and some of the girls suggested its not good for lo. Seems to be mixed messages about it. I've not tried it but just wondered. X


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[DW1978]

Yes Olive, she told me to add more and more water until eventually its just all water and he'll stop waking in the night? That simple apparently!! LOL. But I'm not convinced. If he still sometimes wakes for two bottles, surely watering down the first one will just make him hungrier, earlier and if I water down the second one he may then wake for a third? To be honest, it can be quite tiring some times but I'm pretty used to it by now and it literally takes me 15 mins to get out of bed, fed him and get back to bed - he self settles so I'm a bit scared to change anything. It may get better but it also might get even worse?

 

[Olive]

Ikwym am in similar situation only prob is can sometimes wake too early - 5ish. X


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[katie_lou]

Im in two minds about the hungry baby milk coz on one hand they will go longer but I also think that if they need feeding then they need feeding so just giving them the feeling of a full stomach isnt solving the problem!! DO you use a dummy?? We have a rule were we try 3 times to get him to sleep and if he seems hungry then we will feed but as I say its rare he will have a feed before 5!!
xxxx

Ruby has hungry baby milk and she still does not sleep through the night xxx

 

[DW1978]

Ikwym am in similar situation only prob is can sometimes wake too early - 5ish. X


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Jax has taken to waking at 5am too. About half the time, that's when I give him his 2nd bottle and he'll go back to sleep.

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[Mrs N]

Im in two minds about the hungry baby milk coz on one hand they will go longer but I also think that if they need feeding then they need feeding so just giving them the feeling of a full stomach isnt solving the problem!! DO you use a dummy?? We have a rule were we try 3 times to get him to sleep and if he seems hungry then we will feed but as I say its rare he will have a feed before 5!!
xxxx

Ruby has hungry baby milk and she still does not sleep through the night xxx

A lot of people have said that it doesnt make a difference!! We noticed he got better at night when we started giving him a proper meal at tea time!! Must fill him up more!!
xxx

 

[mum2b410]

I don't actually mind getting up as its usually only once which seems to be at any time from midnight to 4ish and she takes about 15 minutes to feed and get back settled again so not long really.

I just thought I was doing wrong by continuing to feed in the night but she seems hungry and I feel happy to know that she's atleast had two good bottle fulls of milk in the day ( the in the night one and one when she wakes up) as she then seems too interested in anything to have a bottle during the day and especially if we have gone out somewhere x

Sounds like she is doing fine and will drop it when she's ready! If its just the once and its not for that long then its probably where she is heading! Ethans night feed varied in time from about 1-4.30am before he dropped it xxx