routine for 5 and a half month old - how many night feeds?

[LISAMJS]

Hi I was wondering how many breastfeeds your 5 month old has and how many times a night he or she wakes. I am currently feeding mine 2 times a night.
Also do your babies always cry when put to sleep whether it is a nap or bed time? Thanks for any replies xx

 

[NICCI]

hey hun
jack is a little bit younger than your LO he currently has 3 night feeds, last night he had a big feed at 9.30, then woke up at 2.30 for a feed then 5 and then 7! not sure if the 7 one counts as a night feed, we then got upat 7.30
jack goes down without any fuss at night in his bascket but he usually screams when i try and put him down for a nap
he is getting better though xxxxx

 

[Jollypops]

Calum has a feed a 11pm and then nothing till morning around 7.30/8ish.
His 2am feed stopped around 3/3.5 moths old.

Sorry just seen you asked breastfeeding and we're bottle sorry!

 

[Sherlock]

Galen varies.

He went all night from 7pm-6am for a few weeks around 3 months old. Then he would wake around 11pm and not settle so I'd feed him. Then he had skin problems and would stir about 15 times a night and so fed a few times. Now we are back to mostly sleeping through and only waking some nights once and having a feed. Occasionally twice or three times but we put the music on and don't go to him these times and within 15 minutes he falls back to sleep.

We are trying to get him back to not having a night feed as tbh its not doing him any favours. His body is able to go without a feed overnight as he has done so in the past. From around 12 weeks is when breastfed babies generally don't *need* a feed in the night. Often many will stir and want a feed as it helps them to settle again. I felt Galen was waking as a habit (same time more or less every night if he does wake) and if we persevere with him without feeding he will go back to sleep.

When we move back into our house and once Christmas is out the way and OH has a week off we will start offering Galen water when he wakes at night. I"m sure a few nights of this and he won't be looking for a feed at 4am anymore. His weight gain is fine, he feeds lots in the day and its a habit that he wakes now. And one for my own sanity we need to resolve.

 

[siany]

Lottie is a little younger and was three weeks early (not sure if it makes a difference). She will go to bed with little fuss around 7pm. She usually will then wake around 1.30/2am for a feed and then again at 5/5.30. She is then up and ready for the day at 6.30am Grrrrrrr She has two naps in the day, one at 9am for 40mins in her cot and again in her pram at about 2.30pm for about one hour.

 

[Charlie:-)]

At 5 1/2 months Maia just had a dream feed at 11pm, she started sleeping through from 3 months old to the day and just recently we have dropped the dream feed.

She does cry sometimes when she is put down but usually when she's having a nap not when she's going to bed at night. She will cry/moan (its not full crying) for only a couple of cry's then settles herself to sleep.

 

[Quill]

Eli is a bit younger than 5 months but he wakes about 2-3 times generally. We are putting him down around 9pm and he wakes anywhere between 12-2 for another feed, then sometime around 6-7. Lately he's been going through both a growth spurt and teething so I'm not trying to enforce anything rigid about scheduling, he gets a feed when he wants one and sometimes I give him Calpol in the night if he's in pain.

Usually he goes down for sleeping peacefully, then will wake about 15 minutes later and sometimes we'll have to give him a dummy, once he's asleep we take it away. There have been a few times where we've put him down sleepy but awake and he's settled himself, we're moving in that direction but he's only young so we're not expecting that every time, just trying to set him on the right path. Hopefully once this growth spurt is done he'll go more than 4-5 hours without waking. The good thing about breastfeeding is that I can at least doze a bit while he's feeding.

 

[pammie1]

My 5 month old usually goes down with no crying after a feed about 7pm, she has another feed about 10.30 and then at about 2.30-3am, sometimes she wakes again about 4.30-5am and I feed her but often she doesnt wake for this and sleeps till about 6.30. She does normally wake a couple of other times in the night but I just resettle her without feeding except at these times. She could prob. go longer but up till a month ago we were co-sleeping and she was helping herself through the night so I am trying to break her in gently to less milk overnight, prob in new year I will try to persuade her to drop the middle of the night one.
In the day she sometimes cries when I put her down for a nap (I put her down awake) but not always, she just sometimes seems to go thorough a cranky stage when shes tired where other times she will drift off quite contentedly.

 

[Laur_250]

Reggie is 5 months tommorow and he has been having 3 night feeds recently, he had been sleeping through but that didnt last long!

He doesnt go to sleep about 10-11pm and feeds himself to sleep and yet still wakes up for 3 feeds from then to when we get up the next day!xx

 

[Neev]

Aaron is 4 months in a couple of days and has a feed at 11pm, 2 am, 4 am and then 7 am. Cant wait to get to the point when he stops his night feeds... When I am too tired I will wake up 10 minutes before him and express. Then I go back to sleep and DH will take time to feed him through the bottle. He has been good- doesnt seem to have nipple confusion

 

[Sandi4Paul]

Logan goes down at 8 and wakes around 3 ish for a feed then through to about 8 am. We are trying to drop the last feed by jsut pushing it back gradually over the next month or so.

he was screaming the house down wehn we put him down at night but my Dh wouldn't do CC, until the night he had a splitting headahce. Took and hour of crying wehn i wouldn't go to him and then asleep. Second night 15 mins theird night nothing. Day time naps are worse at this stage as recently i have been letting him sleep on me, but i have sprained my wrist (must limit wii playing time), so have had to move back to getting him to seleep on his day bed (currently a special blanket on the couch).

Sandi