Babies: 3 - 6 Months

Sleep Help (Again)

So I know this is a common concern and really the only thing currently I'm having a problem with.  My three month old was occasionally sleeping 5, 6 and 7 hour stretches but they were few and far between.  Normally she goes to bed around 8:30 wakes at 10 pm, 2 am and 4 or 5 am.  I was getting more laid back about daytime feeding and kind of let her eat when she felt like it, but I'm wondering if she got into snacking.  I'm tracking every bottle now and trying to push 4 or 5 ounces every 3-4 ounces and reduce the amount I feed at night.  If she is hungry of course I will feed her, but I'm wondering if she is eating less than she should during the day and making up for it at night.  I'm hoping that getting her more on a routine of normal eating during the day will help this.  Has anyone had luck with this?  I really don't know if her waking is a developmental thing or a hunger thing although she does seem hungry.

 

Thanks!

Re: Sleep Help (Again)

  • If LO eats more during the day, she will not need to eat as much at night. We just upped LOs bottles to 6oz yesterday (every 3-3.5 hours) and she went 9 hours at night without eating! Now LO does not always want the full 6oz, but she will eat that much within an hour or so if I keep offering her the bottle. For us, LO pretty much set this feeding schedule. She will still sometimes make the hunger cues, and eat only 1-2oz, but then she will take a full bottle before the 3 hour mark from there. 
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    If LO eats more during the day, she will not need to eat as much at night. We just upped LOs bottles to 6oz yesterday (every 3-3.5 hours) and she went 9 hours at night without eating! Now LO does not always want the full 6oz, but she will eat that much within an hour or so if I keep offering her the bottle. For us, LO pretty much set this feeding schedule. She will still sometimes make the hunger cues, and eat only 1-2oz, but then she will take a full bottle before the 3 hour mark from there. 

    This for us too.  DD eats 5, 5.5-6oz bottles a day about every 3 hours.  We have been on a 3 hour schedule since the beginning, and she's slowly dropped all her night feedings and now sleeps roughly 8:30p-7a.  She occassionally wakes around 1am and if a paci doesn't put her back to sleep, I'll offer a 3oz bottle. 

    I transitioned her to all formula at the 3 month mark.

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  • In my experience LO sleeps much longer stretches at night if she was insatiable during the day...so yes feeding more regular during the day has helped us cut down to one night feed...on days when she is not hungry she tends to wake at least twice at night if not more often...
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