Cut off

BabyMakes 3 · May 2013

Last night and a few other nights this week Benjamin has been waking up three or four hours after bedtime and is inconsolable which results in me feeding him. I soothe him for about a half hour, check the diaper, doesn't seem to be teething issue, etc etc, so a bottle is my last resort. I know he can STTN because he does, or did, like 3 nights a week. Of course it could be a growth spurt or something. So, do you ladies have a cut off, as in your won't feed baby until it's been at least 5 hours at night? Just curious! I suppose I could've waited another hour and a half last night but ugh that sounded awful. He was not a happy guy.

tngrl3 · May 2013

I always feed at night if he wakes, but that's partly because I worry he is getting enough to eat. He usually only wakes up once to eat around 1 am. He goes down at 9 and is up around 7. One day last week at the babysitters, he only took 6 oz of BM in almost 8 hours so I figure he needs those nighttime ounces! Plus I enjoy my sleep and if I nurse him, he usually goes right back to sleep when he is done.

kieannb · May 2013

Unless its been 7 hours I usually won't feed her. Mostly because when I was feeding her before that, she really wasn't eating a whole lot. That being said, if she wakes up, does back to sleep, and wakes up again within a half hour hour span, I feed her.

ExcitedMum2B · May 2013

I give it a few minutes of trying to give her a paci, if she keeps spitting it out I know she's hungry and then give her a 2-3 oz bottle. That usually gets her back to sleep.

Gargita · May 2013

If H can't be soothed back to sleep relatively quickly, I feed him. Also what Kieannb said - if he wakes back up soon after soothing, I feed him. If I pick him up and he immediately tries to latch on my face, I feed him. It's usually only once a night, but sometimes he is just hungry more.

kbl13 · May 2013

I always feed B if he wakes in the MOTN. Some nights he will sleep for 10-11 hrs straight, other nights he is up once or twice. I figure that if he wakes up and can't get himself back to sleep, then he must be hungry.