Night feeds - formula fed baby

How old is your little one. As mine is 3 weeks and I've been told to leave her until she tells me she's hungry. But don't leave her no more than 5.5 hours tops. And thats because she's a very good weight. Not lost any since birth. But dont leave any longer than that as if leave them to just sleep they won't have the energy to properly wake up without the feed ...
Regarding waking up. I was told with my little one cos she was same. Change their bum. Or strip them off to wake them up. Then feed them. Doesn't always work every time with my little one but 9/10 it does. Hope this helps xx

I used change her bum first if didn't wake for feed. Now she starting to wake up herself up for feed 3/4 hours. I was told to change her milk as she on cow and gate but if I do she don't settle on any other milk. They say shouldn't matter coz it's all the same. But im having the opposite now she will not settle at night takes me hours sometimes to get to sleep. But try changing there bum first see that helps xx

I’m mixed feeding, mainly breastfeeding, at the moment and we were exactly the same, got told by the midwives to wake our little one every 4 hours, then got told we should’ve been waking him every 3, then got told we should be letting him sleep through! It was so confusing. We just did what they said at the time but we stopped waking him every 3 hours when he was around 3 weeks old as that’s when they said to let him sleep through, he had also got back to his birth weight by then and since we stopped waking him he has continued to weight gain. Through the day he will go about 2-3 hours between feeds but overnight is the only time he can go longer than 3 hours as missing 1 feed doesn’t make a different with his weight gain. I guess it all depends on how old your baby is and the amount of weight they’ve lost since birth but I’m definitely no expert. I would probably just take the latest advice you’ve been given, as confusing as it is, or speak to your health visitor or midwife 😊

Were using sma pro & having issues 😩 i was debating on changing too but not sure what to

if you’ve tried everything else and spoken to your health visitor/ midwife I would recommend. We tried absolutely everything after being told not to change his milk and nothing worked so in the end we did and honestly he’s like a different baby.

@Charlotte that's bit like me I try everything the health visitor told me to change it. She won't take powder milk. If I do she won't settle afterwards. If I try something new she like that. And hv said there's no reason why she shouldn't take powder stuff coz it's all the same.