When do you feed your LO at night?

jordans_wife · March 2016

Meaning my little guy is a very noisy sleeper. Sometimes he fusses but then quits. I'm trying to encourage him to go longer stretches at night so I definitely don't wake him to feed him. But as much noise as he makes I'm wondering if I'm just assuming it's time to feed him if it's been 2 1/2 hrs or longer since his last feed. I hope this is making sense but what I'm trying to ask is do you feed your LO the 1st time they start stirring in bed or their 1st little cry or what? My guy is 5 weeks tomorrow and we are occasionally getting a 4 hrs stretch here and there.

CountryAir13 · March 2016

My LO is the same age. Towards the morning (6-7am) he will cry, then fall asleep, then cry, fall back asleep and so on. I'm not sure if he's crying in his sleep or if he's waking up to cry. I don't get him out of the RnP unless he's fully awake and crabbing at me. I'm at a loss too. Just trying to go with it

22snc12 · March 2016

As soon as my daughter starts to grumble/make more noises than her "typical" sleep noises I get her up, check to see if she needs changed, then feed her. This happens anywhere from 3-5 times between 9:30pm and 7am.

charliegoldengirl · March 2016

I have the same issue - it's so annoying to be constantly awake when the baby is still technically sleeping and just making noise! I can't even answer your question because it's all a blur at night. I don't even know what I'm doing. Sometimes I pick him up and Feed him right away, sometimes I look and if his little eyes are closed I collapse back in bed (only to get up again five mins later when he is making noise again).

VitaLuna · March 2016

My DD is a super noisy sleeper. It's crazy. If it has been less than 2hrs, I let her grunt and rock her RnP until she either falls asleep or her grunt/strain changes to fussing, then I pick her up.

MississippiCatfish · March 2016

If his noises are just grunts and fusses, I'll give him 3-4 minutes. He actually falls back asleep about half of the time. If it's an actual cry, then I just go in right away at this age. I made the mistake of going in immediately with my other 2 kids, and they had a really hard time learning how to put themselves back to sleep on their own. Neither slept through the night until over a year. It might not have changed anything, but I am trying to give this one more chances to learn this on his own rather than rushing in!

Latina211508 · March 2016

My baby boy will be 5 weeks tomorrow. I never wake him to nurse, I let him tell me. I don't get up every time he grunts or makes a noise. He grunts a lot during his sleep. Once he starts to cry then I'll nurse him. He wakes every 2.5 hours, sometimes 3 hours. If he wakes before that I'll just rock him or let him go back to sleep on his own (if he's not crying).

g8trkim · March 2016

If it's actual cries I will get her up, change her and feed her. If it's just grunts or stirring I don't do anything. She will either fall back asleep or fully wake.

twinmom1121 · March 2016

My baby is the same, super noisy and grunty at night. I usually wake up and go to get her out but then she's fast asleep still. So I usually get her up and feed when she is making noise for longer or starts to actually cry. It's usually around the same time of night too.

ashton2190 · March 2016

My LO is 3 weeks and I only get up if she's legitimately crying. She grunts and snorts all the time during the night and we would be up all night if I went in every time she made a noise. Sometimes she even cries once and falls back asleep. I wait for her to actually cry (meaning multiple cries without pausing in between) to check on her. I'll pick her up and check her diaper first and try to feed her if she's not falling back aslee already. It's usually 2.5-3 hours between each time

middy411 · March 2016

When my daughter grunts, 99% of the time she's just getting started. So I may lay there and let her do it for a few minutes, but I end up getting up and getting situated to check her diaper and feed her. Last night she woke up every 30 minutes to 1 hour. It was miserable. I can't tell if she's cluster feeding or using me as a pacifier (we haven't really given her a paci yet). I just keep telling myself all of this is temporary and will seem like such a short time period when I look back on it. Until then, bye bye Zzzzzz's

MississippiCatfish · March 2016

@middy411 my first baby was like that. If he was making noise, it was only going to ramp up! You really have a lot on your plate right now - I'm sorry that you're having to get up so much while trying to heal up your incision.

BabyHope2013 · March 2016

My first son was a noisy sleeper. It actually helped when I moved him to his room in the RNP so we could both get more sleep. Like a PP said I learned with my first son not to wake him up entirely to feed. I wait until he lets out a cry or really wakes up and is fussy. Many times he puts himself back to sleep. With my first I ended up waking him up too much and then till this day as a three year old still have sleeping issues often with him. DS2 is already sleeping longer than my first did at this age and I think it's because I'm not waking him up to feed. I wait more for his cues.

4N6s · March 2016

I feed her whenever she starts to cry, usually 3 times a night or so.

robinj716 · March 2016

I was just wondering this same thing myself today, I always wonder if when he wakes he is hungry or does he just need to be soothed back to sleep. I don't wake to feed. When I hear him crying, I check the clock to see if it's only been 30 mins or 3 hours. He usually wakes up about every 3 hours to eat. I know they say not to watch the clock, but I just use that as a guideline. He threw me for a loop the other night and slept from 930p to 530a without waking once. He seemed much more hungry during the day and I found myself giving him a little more formula at each feeding, because he didn't seem content. I was hoping he would start sleeping longer stretches, but it seems about every 3 is where he is at for the time being. He's 6 weeks old. I do let him cry for a few minutes to see if he will go back to sleep. Once the crying increases, I get up with him.

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