Laura--x

Should an 11 week old have a feeding routine or still just feed on demand?

I still feed on demand with maisie, when she wants it she'll have it, i suppose day to day there is kind of a routine, but some days she'll feed all day and sleep through the night, others she wont take too much but be up however many times in the night to feed.

I dont know if by this age they should have a feeding routine or whether their still classed as young so need feeding on demand..

Kimboowee

Im sure my HV said by 3months ish they should be settling into a routine.

Josh slips in and out of a routine but its working for us so far.

kirsty x

ive fed my LO every 3 hrs since he was a few weeks old

Dona

I have a strict routine and Archie is now sleeping through the night at 8 weeks old. I can't handle feeding on demand but thats only me, everyone is different.

Good luck!

Laura--x

Do you have a strict time then for each feed? Say 3pm,6pm,last feed 9pm ect ect ect?

How do you go about doing it? What happens if at one feed he only takes 1 oz, then is hungry again an hour later but your routine says he shouldnt have one for another 2 hours?

Lottie86

Findlay is 11 weeks old (6 weeks corrected) and like Archie Findlay has a strict routine as I couldn't cope with demand feeding.

Findlay is fed at 7am, 10.30am, 2.30pm, half a feed at 5pm before his bath, half a feed at 6.15pm after his bath, 10.30pm and we give him a feed in the middle of the night purely because he needs to put some more weight on but he is fast asleep during this feed bless him as he has always been a good sleeper.

When we are travelling on long journeys from NE Scotland down to my Mum's in Dorset we try and stop at the services closest to his scheduled feed time to keep him on track.

kaylynn040485

Well ive fed at set times from only a couple of weeks old and Jessica has slept through since 3 wks old. Basically, i just started trying to feed her every 3.5 hrs and used this as a baseline, if she wasnt taking much then i left it till 4 hrs and if she was draining then i would bring it down to every 3 hrs unil i found the right length of time between. Obv this changes as she grows but now its pretty much 7oz every 3.5-4hrs and u waste alot less milk too. Dont see how it does any harm and i felt i wasted so much milk doing demand. Kx

moomin_troll

zane didnt have a set routine till he was 5 months i waited till he made his own routine up and i fed by demand but sayin that he did feed mainly every 3 hours so i had some idea of when to have the next bottle ready but it would change due to growing pains and teething.

i wouldnt worry about a routine right now as long as ur coping and u have a hint of when she wants a bottle ule be fine.

i always think of it like this....id hate to be told when i was hungery and when i wasnt so i wont push a routine if baby hasnt made it themselves, ive always listend to zane n what he wants n he sticks to his routine apart from when hes ill

BeckaJayne

I've always fed Chloe every 4 hours as she's only on 4 bottles a day and she sleeps between 10-12 hours and has been sleeping through since the first couple of weeks! ONly rule i have is last bottle no later then 9pm!!

I tried feeding on demand but found that Chloe would go up to 6hours without a feed and that worried me. She's on 4 x 7oz atm but doesn't always have the full bottle.

What bottles is your LO taking atm and have you tried feeding her every 3/4 hours?

sarah0108

my LO is only 7 weeks old but i was wondering the same thing for when shes bigger.

she seems to be sleeping more because shes a big girl lol and takes a lot at a feed usually about 3oz average i have started giving her a dummy because she would cry for a bottle only to sit and chew it this has helped laods because now she will have a bottle, bit of a play and then her dummmy to help her drift off to sleep. x