Sleep Schedule and Bottle Fed Babies/Cluster Feeding...

amykins1283

I was just wondering something. 

DS sleeps well during the night and is usually up around 8:00 in the morning.  He eats at 8:00 and then goes down for his first nap around 9:30.  He sleeps until around 11:30 or 12:00.  He is then usually up until around 3:00 and then goes down for his second nap of the day.  This one lasts until around 5:00 or 5:30.  After this nap he is up until 9:30 or 10:00 and then goes down for the night. 

It seems to me that, now that he's napping and going to bed on a more regular schedule, that he eats more frequently when he is awake.  For example, my parents came over to babysit while DH and I went out to dinner.  DS was taking his bottle at around 5:45 and then was having another bottle when we got home around 8:00.  I took him upstairs and gave him a bath and now he is eating again here at 9:30.  Would this be considered "cluster feeding"?  I know that some of you guys talk about your breastfeeding babies doing this at night but I thought that cluster feeding was when they ate small amounts over short intervals.  DS is taking in 4-5 oz at each of these feedings.  He is definitely showing all the signs of being hungry so I don't think we are reading into anything.  Do any other bottle fed babies do this at night?   

norman25

DS regularly drinks two of his usual 4 oz. bottles within the hour before falling asleep for the night.