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Nighttime Bottle?

If you increase your babies' bottles at night as part of their bedtime routine, how much more do you feed them?

My boys are BM only (I EP for them) and are fed 2 to 2.25 ounces every 3 to 4 hours but I would like to start a bedtime routine that includes a heavier feeding to get them to maybe 5ish hours at night (a girl can dream, right?).

TIA! 

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Re: Nighttime Bottle?

  • I just fed mine until they stopped eating. i didn't force more on them if they didn't want it...plus at 4 weeks we were still feeding every three hours. I can't remember when we stopped that - but honestly they didn't sleep through the night for a long time....

                                                

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  • I'm not sure how you feel about formula, but my cousin gave her daughter a bottle with forumla before bed.  That seemed to help her stay full longer during the night.  She EBF during the day.

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  • Half an ounce at a time.
  • This never worked for me. Not only would they not sleep longer, but they also did not always take the extra ounces. My boys started sleeping longer when I started feeding them every 2 hours during the day.

     

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  • Mine take just over 3 oz. of breastmilk in a bottle at bedtime and we continue to bottle-feed through the night (one bottle is usually formula, though, depending on how often I was able to get to the pump that day....doesn't always happen :-/) LOs sleep up to 4 hours between feedings. Ditto PP about not necessarily being able to make them eat more; DS1 always sucks down 3 oz easily but DS2 is more like 2.5 and there's no making him eat more or he'll spit it all up.
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