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Night feeds - any ideas?
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Hi ladies.
My LO used to go atleast 5 hours at night between feeds so that he would only wake up once in the night about 3.30am. On occasion he would even go 6 or 7 hours. In the last week though the gap between night feeds seems to be getting smaller and smaller. He is now waking twice in the night for food!I haven;t changed anything and I thought he had had his growth spurt last week - he is almost 13 weeks. SO I am not convinced it is that.
His day feeds have also been changing slightly - he used to go 3 hours on the dot but they also seem to be coming forward slightly to sometimes just 2 and a half hours. He is on 7oz bottles - he will completely empty about 2 of them a day. The other bottles he will take about 6 to 6 and a half oz.
Anybody got any ideas? I thought babies were meant to start going longer in the night not shorter lol!!
Thans in advance
xxx
My LO used to go atleast 5 hours at night between feeds so that he would only wake up once in the night about 3.30am. On occasion he would even go 6 or 7 hours. In the last week though the gap between night feeds seems to be getting smaller and smaller. He is now waking twice in the night for food!I haven;t changed anything and I thought he had had his growth spurt last week - he is almost 13 weeks. SO I am not convinced it is that.
His day feeds have also been changing slightly - he used to go 3 hours on the dot but they also seem to be coming forward slightly to sometimes just 2 and a half hours. He is on 7oz bottles - he will completely empty about 2 of them a day. The other bottles he will take about 6 to 6 and a half oz.
Anybody got any ideas? I thought babies were meant to start going longer in the night not shorter lol!!
Thans in advance
xxx
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My dd went through one around 9 weeks and began taking 6ozs every hour to hour and a half (exhausting), in the end I changed to a hungrier baby formula on the suggestion of my hv and within a fortnight she had stopped taking so much (we even dropped an oz) and she began sleeping 6pm-6am by 12 weeks.