Erratic feeding baby - help!
Hiya Ladies
Lily is 8 weeks on Tuesday and feeds very randomly. She can go for 5 hours in the night but duirng the day I can never be prepared for when she will want to eat! She will sometimes go 3 hours between feeds, or 4 but most often around 2 hours. One some occasions 1 hour 30 mins! She is on 5oz bottles but doesn't want more than that in one feed. I have made bigger feeds but she doesn't take it all. I spoke to HV about hungry baby milk and she was like 'noooo' she's too young. Rang cow and gate and they said to hold off until 12 weeks. But I'm not sure I can. I am constantly sterlising and when I go out my change bag is full of bottles and formula.
What do you all think? Should I try hungry baby milk? Maybe just one in a morning and see how we go? Anyone else had this experience? I think I'm going mad!!
Thanks.
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Lily is 8 weeks on Tuesday and feeds very randomly. She can go for 5 hours in the night but duirng the day I can never be prepared for when she will want to eat! She will sometimes go 3 hours between feeds, or 4 but most often around 2 hours. One some occasions 1 hour 30 mins! She is on 5oz bottles but doesn't want more than that in one feed. I have made bigger feeds but she doesn't take it all. I spoke to HV about hungry baby milk and she was like 'noooo' she's too young. Rang cow and gate and they said to hold off until 12 weeks. But I'm not sure I can. I am constantly sterlising and when I go out my change bag is full of bottles and formula.
What do you all think? Should I try hungry baby milk? Maybe just one in a morning and see how we go? Anyone else had this experience? I think I'm going mad!!
Thanks.
xx
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The best advice I was given was make him wait 3 hrs between feeds because all he was doing was 'snacking' and therefore wouldnt be hungry enough to take all his bottle - the most he ever took was 3/4 oz's - I managed to get it up to 5/6 oz and after about 2 days was much more settled and I felt more in control and could plan my day much better.
When I first made him wait he screamed blue murder but it was more temper than hunger! And I changed to C&G hungry formula before 12 weeks but I used to give him the stage 1 first thing on a morning as HV recommended not to cut it out completely as it has some 'brain boosting' thing in it!! Cant remember now...
Good luck! x
She is eating again now!
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I havent had this problem with james he is 8 weeks tomorrow and feeds well every 4 hrs sometimes 5 hrs and is taking a full 5 ozs so i think i will make up the 6 ozs.He goes 6 hrs at night but he is on c&g comfort milk and thats really thick as he started with wind at 3 weeks and it really settles his tummy as well as the colief it costs me just short of ??30 a week to stop his wind x2 tubs of comfort milk at ??9 a tub and the colief is ??10 a 7ml bottle which lasts a week but i would pay anything to help him.
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She did say that it would be better to force evie into a feeding routine for my own sanity and that evie needed to be taught to wait between feeds. So straight away we started and we made her go 3hours between each feed. it was very difficult listening to her cry but even after the first 3hours she then guzzled down a 6oz bottle and so easily went the next 3hours hours without feeling hungry.
It got easier and easier with every feed and she would finish an entire bottle in one go.
Perhaps before you try hungry baby milk try getting a routine going nd make her wait at least 2hours between feeds? gradually you might find she takes more in one go.
I'm sure it wouldnt do lily any harm to be on hungry baby milk, the only reason id suggest not to is that you might find in another 8weeks time she gets even more hungry and it would then be a good time to change her milk over before weaning her. at least this way you can rule out lily just being a "snacker" before going onto the hungry baby milk as you might find changing the milk alone doesnt get her into a feeding routine!