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someone posted the baby 411 list below and I am confused about this: (what does this mean? my DD wakes up on her own once a night (around 4am) takes a full bottle then goes back to sleep...until around 8am. have I done something wrong?  pedi says this is normal. what exactly do they mean by this?

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Re: s/o The Trained Night Feeder (baby is used to a middle-of-the night feeding)

  • starsmaycollidestarsmaycollide

    I just got my book out to check, and this is what it says-

    "Your baby gets used to eating a snack or meal in the middle of the night, so he continues to be hungry at that time. Equate this with working the night shift, and having a lunch break at 3 AM. Yes, your body will work up an appetite if you're used to it. Stop eating at 3 am, and your body will no longer be hungry. Parents frequently continue these feedings well beyond 6 months because they don't know better and their babies demand it."

    So anyway, I think this 'rule' applies to 6 months+ , and I guess they are saying babies that age don't typically 'need' an overnight feeding. 

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    I'm going to give you some unsolicited parenting advice: put down the book. If your baby is hungry, feed her. When she doesn't need that night feeding anymore, she'll stop waking up for it.
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  • MolluskwranglerMolluskwrangler member
    Mollusk does the exact same thing, sometimes she makes it to 5am and once in a great while we will STTN for a day or two. I am not too worried about it, if she's hungry she's hungry the books can bite me.
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  • Mustang SallyMustang Sally

    imageerbear:
    I'm going to give you some unsolicited parenting advice: put down the book. If your baby is hungry, feed her. When she doesn't need that night feeding anymore, she'll stop waking up for it.

    See, I don't buy this line of thinking.  Perhaps because I had a 9 month old who would wake up 4+ times a night.  There is no way that he needed to eat during the night at that point, and definitely not 4 times.  We just got into very bad habits (traveling, had to soothe him quickly in hotels and with in-laws, and the only thing that worked was to nurse him), and he just got used to having snacks all night long.

    While I agree that early on when your baby wakes once during the night that they are probably hungry, but I believe there can come a point when you have to evaluate whether or not they need to eat at that time and if they are waking out of habit.  Of course, this only applies to babies who continue waking well past 6 months.  If your kid starts STTN before then well great. 

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  • BabiesRFunBabiesRFun

    imageerbear:
    I'm going to give you some unsolicited parenting advice: put down the book. If your baby is hungry, feed her. When she doesn't need that night feeding anymore, she'll stop waking up for it.

    This exactly.  Bella wakes up two to three times a night.  I feed her and she goes back to sleep quickly and quietly.  I may be biased though - I'm not a fan of the baby 411 book

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    imageerbear:
    I'm going to give you some unsolicited parenting advice: put down the book. If your baby is hungry, feed her. When she doesn't need that night feeding anymore, she'll stop waking up for it.

    This exactly.  Bella wakes up two to three times a night.  I feed her and she goes back to sleep quickly and quietly.  I may be biased though - I'm not a fan of the baby 411 book

    Jumping in to say I agree with this completely =) 

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  • BluescarfBluescarf member
    imageMustang Sally:

    imageerbear:
    I'm going to give you some unsolicited parenting advice: put down the book. If your baby is hungry, feed her. When she doesn't need that night feeding anymore, she'll stop waking up for it.

    See, I don't buy this line of thinking.  Perhaps because I had a 9 month old who would wake up 4+ times a night.  There is no way that he needed to eat during the night at that point, and definitely not 4 times.  We just got into very bad habits (traveling, had to soothe him quickly in hotels and with in-laws, and the only thing that worked was to nurse him), and he just got used to having snacks all night long.

    While I agree that early on when your baby wakes once during the night that they are probably hungry, but I believe there can come a point when you have to evaluate whether or not they need to eat at that time and if they are waking out of habit.  Of course, this only applies to babies who continue waking well past 6 months.  If your kid starts STTN before then well great. 

    Even though ds is only four months I wonder about this too. Everyone told me to feed him when he stopped STTN, and every week or so he adds in another time now that he wakes up and acts hungry. I can't help but wonder if I had tried harder to soothe him other ways and not feed him if he would have eventually stopped. I'm so confused what to do anymore. He goes to sleep soooo easily, he just won't stay that way for long.

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