Poll for night feeders

CountingUp · July 2012

How many times does your baby eat between 12-6am? During the night are you feeding via breast, bottle, or a bit of both? For us, a bottle at 3 and another at 6. She nurses in bed a couple of times too. When she starts latching and unlatching repeatedly I know it is bottle time.

irwinkle · July 2012

We typically have two feedings via breast in that time. She will wake for a feeding at 12 or 1 and then anywhere from 3 to 5. It is rare that we just have 1 or even no feedings in that time. The night schedule changes every month or two.

CountingUp · July 2012

....if it wasn't for me making some changes she would stay latched all night long.

KeyLime81 · July 2012

A breastfeeds once during that time. Lately it has been around 4, but last night he was up at 2:30. He eats again and is up for the day around 7.

kwinkle1980 · July 2012

A has one feeding during that time, between 4 and 5 am. These days he sleeps from 7 to 4 or 5 without waking.

waiting4bfp2 · July 2012

3-5...all breast.

brookie9 · July 2012

He might nurse once during that time. Sometimes he'll wake around midnight then sleep until morning (5:30-7:30). Other nights he'll sleep until 4 or 5. He'll usually go back to sleep for a couple more hours. If he wakes after 4:45 then he gets a bottle from DH if it's a workday for me cuz I have to get ready. Oftentimes he won't go back to sleep for DH.

rockychryslerb2010 · July 2012

E usually nurses around 10 and will sleep anywhere from 4-6am. If earlier, he nurses and goes back to sleep. If he gets up after 5, he is usually up for a good 1.5 to 2 hrs, before taking a morning nap. Sometimes he wakes up between 1-2 am for a snack (rarely these days) and even more rare he will sometimes skip the 10 pm feeding and sleep from 739 pm to 5am. I don't mind the night feedings now, we nurse all of them and he is efficient and I can be back in bed in 10 min. Thankfully, the days up being up for over an hr whenever he woke up are gone.

Greenbaby3114 · July 2012

Between that time he gets up 1-2x. He is BF. We don't use bottles at home... just at day care.

capulet · July 2012

Once or twice? I have no idea, honestly. We mostly co-sleep and I nurse him lying down, so I'm barely conscious most of the time. My breasts are often full in the morning, though, so I don't think he actually nurses a lot.

catlackey · July 2012

Usually 1-2 times. Usually at 3:30 and then around 6 when she wakes for the morning.

KellyR33486 · July 2012

DS usually goes down around 9pm...wakes around 4am then again anywhere from 6-7 am and then he will usually go back down until 9am. I usually nurse him in his room in less then 10 minutes. If I have to work the next day my husband sometimes will take a feeding and will give him 3-4 ounces of BM in a bottle.

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iluvmylab · July 2012

He usually wakes once between 12-2 to BF. I just now started working on cutting that feeding out and having him go back to sleep and it's working well.

buddrfly421 · July 2012

DS nurses between 1am-4am and then usually again at 5 depending on when he first woke up. Then up for the day and nurses again between 6-8 (depending on the last feeding he got.)

belle785 · July 2012

LO has been up way too much but nurse at least 2x a night, if not more. He has been up too much the past two months or so. I was hoping it would pass, but it has not. As soon as this bottom tooth pops through, I am sleep training again.

TiffJ21 · July 2012

buddrfly421:
DS nurses between 1am-4am and then usually again at 5 depending on when he first woke up. Then up for the day and nurses again between 6-8 (depending on the last feeding he got.)

This is exactly us too. He goes to bed at 8, gets up to nurse between 1am-4am and then again between 5-6am depending on when he woke up. He's up for the day between 7 and 8.

brandywine2010 · July 2012

A usually wakes around 4 am for a feeding. She can sometimes go back down without nursing.

mbf124 · July 2012

goes to sleep at 7:30-8, up at 1 to eat, up again at 5 to eat, back to sleep until 6:30 or 7.

I recently weaned her of a 3am feeding. it was brutal but necessary.

ebd08 · July 2012

Eli usually gets up once (sometimes twice) to eat, always via breast. We have a monstrously large and comfortable La-Z-Boy recliner in his nursery so we snuggle up in that and he snacks and goes back to bed.