XP: Sleeping through the night

Stephanie2167

I'm going to jinx myself, I know it.

My girls are both in Baby Merlin's Magic Sleepsuits. Last night they both slept from 10:30pm - 5:30am. I am exclusively pumping for them so they get breastmilk from a bottle. Normally they would get up at around 2-3 for a bottle. They usually eat at 6am, 9am, 12pm, 3pm, 6pm, 10pm and then again at 2am. If they continue to sleep through their 2-3am bottle (knock on wood), do I increase the amount they get in their other bottles?

Right now they both get 4oz at each bottle. With the 2am bottle that is 28oz. Do I just go off their cues? I do nurse them if someone is cranky between feedings (I just couldn't handle the stress of trying to feed them both at the breast when they were both hungry).

What did you do once your LOs started STTN?

PurpleIris30

Not sure if this will be helpful or not as my girls aren't consistently sleeping long stretches like that (and certainly never at the same time - ha!), but I find that when they do, they want to eat more frequently rather than taking larger bottles. 4 oz is a pretty good size bottle already for their age.

I do breastfeed when I'm home but they get pumped milk while at work and they usually do 3 oz about every 3 hours. I feed on demand when I get home.

Wishing35

When mine began sttn I kept with the same amount of day bottles. I offered them more ounces per bottle, they were doing mostly 6 ounce bottle before sttn. When I began to offer 8 ounces they surprised me and finished them! At first they would still occasionally have a wake up here and there at night and I always offered a bottle. Eventually the night waking a completely phased out after a de weeks and we have been consistently sttn ever since.