dropping night feeds

juliespencer9 · Sep 25th, 2009, 15:44 PM

hi all,
when you all came home from hospital with baby how often would they feed during the night?

and...how did you drop these night feeds cos im still feeding mine 4 times a night at nearly 4 months

thanks

Cuppatea · Sep 25th, 2009, 18:18 PM

Hiya,

My LO was feeding around three times a night when I first brought her home. Now she has one feed or if i'm lucky sleeps right through now (think the most she slept without food was around 11-12 hours) and she is three and a half months. What's your LO feeding like through the day? Maybe increasing the feeds in the day might help a little.

Hope you get a good nights sleep soon....

holden_babez · Sep 25th, 2009, 19:51 PM

i was feeding 4 to 5 times a night when i first brought bub home,
Now at 4 1/2 months old I am feeding 2 maybe 3 depends.

She goes down at night at 730 -800pm
up again for a feed at midnight (i dream feed if Im still up at 1030-11pm which goes through until 230-300)
The midnight feed (if needed) gets me until about 230-300am
Then up again maybe at 500-530am (sometimes dummy does the tirick till 600-630am sometimes I give up at 530am and give another bottle which gets me through till 730am)

Mind you, I have just taken bub off the boob during the night feeds or I was up EVERY 2 hours like clock work lol

She is forumla feed and has solids 3 times a day

Hope this helps mate. As i would be interested as well to see what I can do to minimise night feeds.

HB xx

lizardbreath · Sep 26th, 2009, 00:06 AM

When i first brought my Daughter Home she was every 3 hours on the dot it lasted like a month at one month it was every 5 hours and she hit two months and no longer wakes up shes 4 months old now

AnnaHughes · Sep 26th, 2009, 05:42 AM

When we came home LO would feed every2-3hours, throughout day and night.

It wasnt until we establised a good bedtime routine that the night feeds got better.

At 6 week, he was on a 3 hourly schedule, 7, 10, 1, 4, etc

At 10 weeks he was on a 4 hourly schedule, 7, 11, 3. Just before this, he had stopped whinging for a feed at 3hours (day and night) and also dropped his 1am bottle himself (just did not wake for it) So we ecided that we would go to 4 hours (day and night)

at about 12 weeks he would wake at 4am for a feed, go back to sleep, but then not want his 7:30am bottle and not be hungry till his next one at 11am. I then started to stop offering a bottle at 4:30 and just try to sooth/settle back to sleep. I honestly believe he was waking out of habit, and i was giving him a bottle out of habit. so since then, he has not had a bottle in the night.

juliespencer9 · Sep 26th, 2009, 16:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by holden_babez

i was feeding 4 to 5 times a night when i first brought bub home,
Now at 4 1/2 months old I am feeding 2 maybe 3 depends.

She goes down at night at 730 -800pm
up again for a feed at midnight (i dream feed if Im still up at 1030-11pm which goes through until 230-300)
The midnight feed (if needed) gets me until about 230-300am
Then up again maybe at 500-530am (sometimes dummy does the tirick till 600-630am sometimes I give up at 530am and give another bottle which gets me through till 730am)

Mind you, I have just taken bub off the boob during the night feeds or I was up EVERY 2 hours like clock work lol

She is forumla feed and has solids 3 times a day

Hope this helps mate. As i would be interested as well to see what I can do to minimise night feeds.

HB xx

oh good someone like me out there, thought i was the only one getting no sleep!

babyndme · Sep 26th, 2009, 16:32 PM

My little 1 was wkin up evry 3hrs when we got home from hospital. Now he's 3weeks and goes from 11pm till 3 or 4 then till 7am. He just doesn't wake up. xx

AtomicPink · Sep 27th, 2009, 22:57 PM

I do the whole 7, 11, 3 thing which means she's only up once really.

kirstyderby · Sep 28th, 2009, 03:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sb22

I do the whole 7, 11, 3 thing which means she's only up once really.

I did the same 2 start.
Now its 8am 1pm ish 5.30pm n 10pm.
LO just wont have 5 bottles!!

Lucy_lu_84 · Sep 28th, 2009, 04:41 AM

argh i am up every 2 hours from 1

Sep 25th, 2009, 15:44 PM	#1
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Cuppatea Mum (Mom) Active BnB Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: South Wales Posts: 30	Hiya, My LO was feeding around three times a night when I first brought her home. Now she has one feed or if i'm lucky sleeps right through now (think the most she slept without food was around 11-12 hours) and she is three and a half months. What's your LO feeding like through the day? Maybe increasing the feeds in the day might help a little. Hope you get a good nights sleep soon....

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Sep 25th, 2009, 19:51 PM	#3
holden_babez Mum (Mom) Active BnB Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Queensland, Australia Posts: 721	i was feeding 4 to 5 times a night when i first brought bub home, Now at 4 1/2 months old I am feeding 2 maybe 3 depends. She goes down at night at 730 -800pm up again for a feed at midnight (i dream feed if Im still up at 1030-11pm which goes through until 230-300) The midnight feed (if needed) gets me until about 230-300am Then up again maybe at 500-530am (sometimes dummy does the tirick till 600-630am sometimes I give up at 530am and give another bottle which gets me through till 730am) Mind you, I have just taken bub off the boob during the night feeds or I was up EVERY 2 hours like clock work lol She is forumla feed and has solids 3 times a day Hope this helps mate. As i would be interested as well to see what I can do to minimise night feeds. HB xx

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Sep 26th, 2009, 00:06 AM	#4
lizardbreath Mum (Mom) Chat Happy BnB Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Canada , Ontario Posts: 1,822	When i first brought my Daughter Home she was every 3 hours on the dot it lasted like a month at one month it was every 5 hours and she hit two months and no longer wakes up shes 4 months old now

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Sep 26th, 2009, 05:42 AM	#5
AnnaHughes Mum (Mom) Active BnB Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Shropshire Posts: 537	When we came home LO would feed every2-3hours, throughout day and night. It wasnt until we establised a good bedtime routine that the night feeds got better. At 6 week, he was on a 3 hourly schedule, 7, 10, 1, 4, etc At 10 weeks he was on a 4 hourly schedule, 7, 11, 3. Just before this, he had stopped whinging for a feed at 3hours (day and night) and also dropped his 1am bottle himself (just did not wake for it) So we ecided that we would go to 4 hours (day and night) at about 12 weeks he would wake at 4am for a feed, go back to sleep, but then not want his 7:30am bottle and not be hungry till his next one at 11am. I then started to stop offering a bottle at 4:30 and just try to sooth/settle back to sleep. I honestly believe he was waking out of habit, and i was giving him a bottle out of habit. so since then, he has not had a bottle in the night.

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babyndme Mum (Mom) Active BnB Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: North Wales, UK Posts: 64	My little 1 was wkin up evry 3hrs when we got home from hospital. Now he's 3weeks and goes from 11pm till 3 or 4 then till 7am. He just doesn't wake up. xx

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AtomicPink Mum (Mom) BnB Elite Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Scotland Posts: 19,122	I do the whole 7, 11, 3 thing which means she's only up once really.

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