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Does your 3 month old have a nighttime feeding?

Rainne38Rainne38
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I formula feed and my LO hasn't had a nighttime feeding since about 7-8 weeks (if i'm remembering). That's when she started sleeping longer stretches of 4 hours.  Lately she has been waking at 2 or 3--not crying but just fussy. It usually ends up she doesn't have a very sound sleep until she wakes up for the day. I'm really wondering if she is just fussy or hungry. The hunger "signs" aren't there, but i'm just wondering if she did eat, if she would sleep sounder for the second half of the night.

Are your 3 month olds having a nighttime feeding?

Thanks for any help, just curious and looking for insight!

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Re: Does your 3 month old have a nighttime feeding?

  • chazlewochazlewo member

    yep.  I BF, and he's never gone more than 4-5 hours without a feeding. 

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  • naturegirl417naturegirl417
    Most of the time DD will wake up around 3 (we put her to bed at 9) to eat then its right back to sleep.  She can usually make it til around 6 or 7 after that.  Some glorious nights she makes it til 6 without waking but those are few and far between.
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  • SapphiresproutSapphiresprout
    So you're saying that up until 7/8 wks, your DD was sleeping all the way thru the nite, w/out waking up for a night feed, but now is? If that's the case, then maybe it's just the 3 mo growth spurt affecting her sleep (or gas), and then maybe she'll go back to sleeping thru again. I'd say try feeding her, and see if she takes a nice feed, or if she doesn't seem that interested, then you'll know she wasn't really hungry.

    My 3 mo old has slowly been progressing more hours in the night, right now she goes to sleep about 7:30, and wakes up 2:30 or 3AM for a night feed (then goes bk down). So I think a night feed is pretty average for this age.
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  • BriannaRN*BriannaRN*
    This exactly!
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    yep.  I BF, and he's never gone more than 4-5 hours without a feeding. 

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  • LovePink2850LovePink2850
    My LO is doing the same thing. He's not showing hunger signs, nor is he fully awake. He's easily put back to sleep with his pacifier, but only sleeps for 10 minutes then up again. I don't want to create a habit of feeding at 3 & 4 but on the other hand if I get up to feed him will he sleep past 5am?? I may have to try it. :)
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  • tbone22308tbone22308
    DD usually wakes up between 3-4. Sometimes i wonder if she wasn't so wet (she's a heavy soaker) if she'd wake up at all. A few times i've changed her, set her back in her RNP so i can go make a bottle, and by the time i get back upstairs she's asleep again.
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  • Mrs. RecklingMrs. Reckling member
    DD will be 3 months old next wednesday.  She has been STTN for about 3-4 weeks now.  The past few nights she has been waking up in the middle of the night.  Usually if I pick her up and rock her she goes right back to sleep.
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  • bellabsmommybellabsmommy

    My LO is only 2 months but she has been sttn since she was 5-6 wks and now I'm getting scared that its not gonna last Sad 

    Does your LO use a paci? Could the problem be that they are used to falling asleep with the paci and are maybe waking up noticing that its no longer in their mouth?

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  • Rainne38Rainne38

    imageSapphiresprout:
    So you're saying that up until 7/8 wks, your DD was sleeping all the way thru the nite, w/out waking up for a night feed, but now is?

    No, I may have stated it wrong. She was always up every two hours and then she started STTN at 7-8 weeks, but lately is waking up or is fussy. She doesn't fall asleep w/ the paci, but when she's fussy the paci usually works anywhere from 30-45 mins or sometimes an hour.

    Thanks for all the insight though. I read someone say if they don't take a full feeding in the middle of the night, it might not be hunger (which I thought was interesting).

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