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what should I do?

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ok so he's been getting a bottle around730 or 8ish- we bathe him, quiet time and he'll doze- we try to keep him up to feed him at 1030 or 11...sometimes I wake him to feed him but the nights I do- it seems like he'll wake at 2 but if I let him sleep through that feeding he goes longer but then when he wakes from the longer sleep he wants to be "up"...thoughts? 
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  • Stacyc625Stacyc625 member

    you try to keep your 3 month old up until 11?

    personally at 3 months- its normal for him to get up at 2am to eat. feed him. put him back down.

    At 3 months- i would feed Gisele at 7pm- go right to sleep. she would be up at 11- eat again. back to bed. up at 3am- eat- back to sleep until 7am when she was 'up' for the day.

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  • detroitblondiedetroitblondie
    At 3 months we'd bathe my son, feed him, and put him down for the night after 15-20 minutes or so of quiet cuddling.  He'd sleep through the night at that point... I think my pediatrician said that as long as they are at least 11 pounds they no longer need to eat in the middle of the night.  At that point it's just part of their routine and a comfort to them...
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  • detroitblondiedetroitblondie
    Oh, & the bedtime routine would start right around 7-7:30 p.m. 
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  • detroitblondiedetroitblondie
    Sorry... I remembered something else... to eliminate that middle of the night feeding we gradually lowered the ounces to something like a half an ounce a night.  Over time (and it really didn't take that long- maybe a few weeks at most) he just didn't bother waking up for that feeding anymore and he was officially STTN. 
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  • abba916abba916
    imageStacyc625:

    you try to keep your 3 month old up until 11?


    I try to do a eat, play, sleep until the 11pm feeding...he's pretty consistant with the eating every three hours- so really its just "time of day" to me...not him... 

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  • mdeppingmdepping

    11 pm seems really late to me.  DD (4 mo. old now) always sleeps better at night when I let her sleep when she wants to sleep.  Every LO is different but I I would try letting him go to sleep at 7:30pm and pushing bath time up a little bit (bath time always wakes DD up).   

    DD went through a stage at 2 1/2 months when she wanted to stay awake after her night feeding, but it was short lived.  I just kept the lights off in the house and did not play with her during sleep time.  She started sleeping really well at  3 months.  At three months I would give DD her last bottle at 7:30 and then read to her.  Most nights she would sleep until 4-5AM.  I would feed her and then she would go back to bed for about another 2 hours.  
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  • hellopoppyseedhellopoppyseed
    It is about to get easier. Between 3-4 months babies REM and non REM cycles supposedly flip to be like an adults. It will be easier to get him to sleep and hopefully go back to sleep after night feedings. I know we saw a big change during this time. At 3 months, ds bed time was 9 but at about 3.5 months, we started putting him to bed at 7 and had dramatic results. He started sleeping for much longer stretches. He still woke to eat at 2 and 4 but it was a major improvement. I did not wake to feed at that point at all.
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  • lys84lys84
    my LO was going to bed at around 11pm until recently. i noticed that she became fussy around 8:30-9pm and decided that she should go down earlier. she still does a night feeding between 1-4am, but goes back to sleep easily.  i think at this point her schedule is changing and is now getting into good pattern.
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  • GeminA1GeminA1
    your LO is soo young, please don't try to eliminate night feedings yet!  Every LO is different.....some may STTN then (rare), some may eat once, some twice, etc.  IMO at 3months I wouldn't worry about him just getting up out of habit.
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