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Dropping Late Night Feed at 10 weeks?!
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My DD is 10 weeks, has always been a good sleeper at night and has a great bedtime routine. Bath, feed and cuddle and asleep around 7pm. She's been doing this since 7 weeks.
Until this week I had woken her about 11pm for a feed but she doesn't dream feed well and it was always only a small 'top-up' feed.
Over the weekend she was a bit poorly and extra tired as she hadn't napped well during the day. I was also knackered and fell asleep without waking her for her late night top-up. Next thing I know it's 6am and she's just waking up as normal.
I mentioned this to the HV who said 'Why are you waking her to feed her?' she says that because I am exclusively BFing on demand, that I should wait and let DD tell me when she's hungry and if she's happy to go 11 hours through the night then let her and enjoy it!
So I tried a couple more nights not waking her and she's slept through and woken at 6am as normal - perfectly happy and ready for breakfast.
She feeds every 3-4 hours through the day and takes about 180ml in a feed if I express and give her a feed from bottle.
She has consistently gained 1oz a day from birth, and had a massive growth spurt last week when she gained 12oz. Will be interesting to see what she weighs this Friday - she was 12lb last Friday.
I know that she will tell me when she's hungry - she's not shy in asking for what she wants - but it seems very early to be dropping this feed.
Just wondered what your thoughts were on this, or if anyone had a LO that did a similar thing as this age.
Thanks ladies.
B xx
Until this week I had woken her about 11pm for a feed but she doesn't dream feed well and it was always only a small 'top-up' feed.
Over the weekend she was a bit poorly and extra tired as she hadn't napped well during the day. I was also knackered and fell asleep without waking her for her late night top-up. Next thing I know it's 6am and she's just waking up as normal.
I mentioned this to the HV who said 'Why are you waking her to feed her?' she says that because I am exclusively BFing on demand, that I should wait and let DD tell me when she's hungry and if she's happy to go 11 hours through the night then let her and enjoy it!
So I tried a couple more nights not waking her and she's slept through and woken at 6am as normal - perfectly happy and ready for breakfast.
She feeds every 3-4 hours through the day and takes about 180ml in a feed if I express and give her a feed from bottle.
She has consistently gained 1oz a day from birth, and had a massive growth spurt last week when she gained 12oz. Will be interesting to see what she weighs this Friday - she was 12lb last Friday.
I know that she will tell me when she's hungry - she's not shy in asking for what she wants - but it seems very early to be dropping this feed.
Just wondered what your thoughts were on this, or if anyone had a LO that did a similar thing as this age.
Thanks ladies.
B xx
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Enjoy it! Those babies who can sleep through gave very very lucky mummies! X
[Modified by: EmilyB on March 24, 2010 10:21 AM]
B xx
my lo dropped all his night feeds at 10weeks and has slept 7.30-7.30 ever since,with a few growth spurts here and there he was prem too so i was shocked but obviously was getting enogh for him the.
be happy and enjoy your sleepy baby x