Advice needed about feeding and sleeping please
Hi girls. I am currently bottle feeding my LO who is 7 weeks old. She is on Aptimel and her feeding is all over the place! She feeds at all different times of the day and more often than not has anything between 1-5 oz, there is no consistency. When she feeds she gulps loads to start and then makes herself choke and gives up or just stops and then is hungry again an hour later!!
We have a bit of an evening routine and she in bed by 7pm and we feed her again at 10pm but she doesn't always take a whole 5oz. She wakes any time of the night and from once to, last night, three times!!
I am completely at a loss as to what to do as my DS slept through from quite early and she is showing no signs of sleeping well at all at the moment.
Should I change the formula?
Many Thanks
We have a bit of an evening routine and she in bed by 7pm and we feed her again at 10pm but she doesn't always take a whole 5oz. She wakes any time of the night and from once to, last night, three times!!
I am completely at a loss as to what to do as my DS slept through from quite early and she is showing no signs of sleeping well at all at the moment.
Should I change the formula?
Many Thanks
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i agree 7 weeks is very early for breast or bottle fed baby to sleep through. I think you were lucky and more than likely will need to wait another 3-4 weeks. Im also BF so not sure what to say about formula. I always thought changing your formula caused more tummy upset but im not the expert, sorry!
JVL my LO is 10 weeks and doing a 7 hour stretch most nights from 8-3 then another 4 hour one. Would you consider this sleeping through for a BF baby? Iknow im up once in the night but its just timings that mean he isnt sleeping through! Dont know when to expect the 12 hour stint - sadly its probably several months for a BF baby? x
My son was very different as he was tube-fed and had severe reflux so isn't really a comparison but even he had a set sleeping routine from very early and we fed him every 3 hours during the day and 2x during the night (10pm and about 3-4am).
I would try and set up a strict daytime routine (waking for 3 hourly feeds) and go from there.
H x
I asked the HV for advice today and he said to just go with the flow for now as he won't starve overfeed himself and will settle down.
With regards to changing formula ive just done that due to baby straining like crazy. I'm not sure it's changed anything..still gulps food so fast he's full of wind and often just gives up on rest of bottle.
I think he's just a snacker - although for the first time ever today I managed to stretch him a bit longer with a dummy and a walk in fresh air - he'd only eaten an hour before so I felt confident he wasn't starving.
HV did say I could try and make him wait a bit longer but I'd have a very upset baby and it could be stressful. I couldn't do it to him X
personally im not a fan of the strict routine thing and it wouldnt work for my son as he wont eat properly when hes not hungry and he gets very cranky if he wakes up when hes not done sleeping yet. might well work for some babies but certainly not all.