Question about middle of the night feeding

l_elizabeth · May 2010

My LO is pretty good with sleeping at night, he usually goes 4-5 hours the first stretch (waking around 2am to eat), and then goes between 3-4 hours the second stretch. We FF, and we prep the bottles before we go to bed so we don't have to go down to the kitchen in the middle of the night. He eats 4 oz consistently, although we just started thinking maybe we should be trying to feed him more during the longest night stretch. He typically eats every 3 hours, so if he's going 5 hours or more at night without eating, it would make sense that he'd want more. I know we could just try to feed him more and see how that goes, but he's kind of one of those kids that will always take more (and then spit up later).So, for those that have LO's that go longer at night than they feed during the day, do you feed more when they eventually wake up and eat? For any babies who STTN, do you feed more in the morning than you typically feed during the day? Or do you feed more at the last feeding of the night, to keep them full longer?

Thanks!

trickeytricky · May 2010

We seem to be on the same schedule. We usually give a 6 oz. bottle for our 8/9pm feeding and that will last us until 2 or 3 in the morning, at which point he goes back to the 4oz. bottle. Like you mentioned we could try to stuff him, he'll drink more, but then 5 minutes later he'd just spit it out.

k.martell · May 2010

The nights LO goes on a 6-8 hr stretch she eats about the same amount. But I notice that she'll eat more often during the day. For example yesterday I BF her 3 times before 12p because we were going out, then twice with formula while we were out (6 hours), then 3 more times before going to bed. And when I put her down at 9:30p she was only on my breast for 5 minutes. This morning she woke at 5a and was back to sleep by 5:30a (which is not a usually occurrence. Sometimes it takes me 30m just to get her back to sleep), slept until 8:45a. Then DH fed her formula and she only ate about 2 oz before she was out again.

Summer20 · May 2010

We are on pretty much the same schedule (about 10pm, 3am, 6am) but with pumped breast milk. Some nights DD will eat 4+ oz in a feeding, sometimes only 2.5. It's never made any difference in her sleeping...

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