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Advice for nighttime waking needed - 6 month old

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DD is almost 6 months (5 months age-adjusted).  My little late-term premiee is not sso small anymore...26 1/2" and nearly 18 lbs.  (We are 5'9" and 6'5" tho, so it's no shock.)  She def has chubby thighs and huge cheeks and loves her food!  She gets a 5 oz bottle around 7a, 2 oz food at 8a, 5 oz bottle 11a, 5 oz bottle 2p, 4-4.5 oz bottle 5p, 1-2 oz food 6p, and a 6 oz bottle 7:30p.  She wakes b/tw 12 & 2:30 for a 4.5 oz bottle.  Problem is at 3 months, before solids, she was sleeping 8-4, waking for a bottle and sleeping 'til 7 like clockwork.  Now she wakes earlier for a bottle  (have cut it down from 5 or to 4.5 oz in an attempt to get her to drop her night feeding), but I'm not sure if this is backfiring and that is why she wakes 30% of the nights for a 5a bottle.  She is teething and FIL suggested she's actually getting her molars (she chews everything as far back as possible).  I hate this 5:00 thing as I like to get up at 4:15 to workout.  But mostly because I feel this regression has been going on forever...been 2 months!  We have a pedi appointment tomm, so I'll ask advice, but would like your input.  What am I doing wrong?  All in all she's eating 30-31 oz formula per day plus 3-4 oz food.  Is this not enough?
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Re: Advice for nighttime waking needed - 6 month old

  • HennessyHennessy member
    Would she eat more if you offered it? Our LO was 18 lbs at his last Dr appt (approx. 7 months) and we asked about his eating.... he LOVES his food. At the time he was eating about 30-32oz of formula each day and about 10oz of food. We specifically ment
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  • &orchid&&orchid& member

    I was reading that for night time feeds, it becomes habitual that they wake hungry at the times they are fed.  It was suggested that you slowly water down their bottles for the feeding you want to get rid of.  I nurse, so I started de-latchin

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  • kross605kross605 member

    Im there with you sister. DD doesnt really eat food yet (no reason, im just lazy about making it most of the time) but she nurses 3 times and has 3 bottles throughout the day so Im guessing thats a total of 30ish oz of breastmilk and she STILL wakes up

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