Bottle before going to bed?

mlkwmu · April 2011

Do you still give your LO a bottle prior to going to bed? (not in bed, but right before?)

Our LOs get a 5oz bottle with each meal (breakfast, lunch and dinner) and we still give them one prior to going to bed. I was just wondering if this was still necessary?

What is your LOs eating schedule? How many hours do they go between meals?

TIA.

DeeandBrad · April 2011

We do a bottle in the morning right when he wakes up if his sister is still sleeping then feed him breakfast when she wakes up. If DD is awake then we feed them both breakfast and give DS his bottle about an hour later(6 ounces). He gets his 2nd bottle mid afternoon (6 ounces) and his final bottle before bed (8 ounces). He also drinks water in his sippy cup throughout the day.
DS goes 3 or 4 hours between meals but get little snacks in between if he acts hungry.

hikerbeth · April 2011

Yes, but the number of oz. in the bottle have dropped drastically from the high point (8 oz. in the bedtime bottle before he started solids. . . now he takes 3-4 oz.). It was a natural reduction, not something I forced. I remember my DD being similar. DD stopped the bedtime feeding at 15 months.

DS's current schedule:

nurse early morning (5 am-ish) OR drink EBM upon waking (sometime between 7 and 8 am) (he doesn't like to nurse in the morning).

Breakfast sometime between 7:30 and 8:30 am

nurse before 1st nap sometime between 9 and 10 am

Lunch sometime between 11:30 am and 1:30 pm

nurse before 2nd nap sometime between 1:30 and 3:30 pm

snack around 4:30 pm

Dinner sometime between 5:30 and 6 pm

bedtime bottle of EBM sometime between 7 and 7:30 pm

eta: sometimes he drinks a cup of milk if I'm working (I teach classes at a gym) during a normal meal time since it's something he can handle himself and it'll tide him over. He also drinks water now and then and has a sippy of water in bed with him at night (we live in a very dry climate).

MNgirl326 · April 2011

yes. He still gets 7-8 oz of formula before bed. He objects to less amount before bed and steeps all night long when he has that amount. So at this point it isn't something I am going to stop. I figure he knows what he needs.

jilicious · April 2011

DD is nearly a year and we're still doing a bedtime bottle. I figure as she goes from less milk to more solids, we'll start scaling back the ounces in her PM bottle. I might actually start reducing that bottle's amount first to see what happens. I'm not worried.

DD's new schedule since we weaned (we're on 3/4 cow milk 1/4 BM) is:

7am - 5oz bottle

8am - 9am breakfast of solids

11amish - 5 oz bottle

12pm - 1pm - lunch of solids

3pmpish - 5 oz bottle

5:30pm - dinner of solids

7pm - 5 oz bottle.

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