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FF on demand
Hey. My questions are.......Do you have to stop feeding on demand by a certain age, because of baby needing a routine? If you stop feeding on demand, and try to extend time in between feeds - how do you know you are not denying your lo what they need, eg. through a growth spurt? Any help on this appreciated. I feed on demand at the moment, so obviously timings vary. James had dropped a night feed, but has gained it again, dependent on what time the evening feed is. Thanks girls. xx mithical and James 7 weeks 2 days.
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From about 6 weeks my 2 started sleeping most of the night so last bottle at about 11pm and morning one about 6 or 7. When they dropped the night feed I increased the morning and evening feeds to fill them up. Sometimes they still woke at 3 or 4am wanting a bottle, and if this happened then I fed them.
Now they are both toddlers and they still have a good routine so I don't think I did anything wrong lol! If you're wanting to get a routine going, just try to make the last evening feed a bit bigger than usual, (I always gave the last feed in the bedroom) make sure all night feeds are done in dim light with not much talking/fuss (don't change nappy unless pooey) just to keep baby sleepy and to make the nights very different to the days.
Hope some of that helped.
I personally wld continue demand feeding - how else do you know what they want? A book cant tell you when your bubba is hungry! xxx
becca and jacob
9 weeks 4 days
My daughter on the other hand, cried for milk i'd say every 30mins, but only drank a very small ammount at a time, so was never filling up properly. My HV advised we try to get her into a 3hourly routine, to teach her to finish her bottles and satisfy herself fully, as every 30mins was taking the mick a bit when she was 2months old! xx
She used to SCREAM lol. Although shut up as soon as bottle appeared! She started having 8ozs from about four months ab out 5 times a day. Slept through from 11 weeks though, 7 - 8 next morning x