Feeding routine?

Formula fed - Does anyone else still feed on demand or do you have a routine now?

To make sure my LO has 5 bottles a day, I have to feed her every 3 and a half hours throughout the day but recently I feel like when it’s time for a bottle she isn’t as hungry and may not take it all. Really I don’t want to be going every 4 hours because then it means I have to take her to bed later and I want to try and keep the bedtime routine we have at the moment!

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My baby is 11 weeks! He has 5 bottles and is on 7oz! We feed at 5am 9am, 1pm, 5pm and 9pm! We start bath at half 8 then once out into his nursery to feed and then in his next to me to sleep and left to settle himself with camera on and we only go up to pop his dummy in as hes good at settling himself! Not sure what time you take baby to bed so not sure if my times is too late? I am hoping we can bring it earlier soon so its after supper time! Hope this helps xx

Could you do a dream feed to get the last bottle in?

We still feed on demand but it’s roughly every three hours, we aim for bedtime around 9 and wake up around 6 but it really does depend on the day - sometimes he goes to bed earlier if he falls asleep too early!

Wake up time and bedtime always the same, feeds are on demand really. He’s not really feeding in this heat… he’s 8oz down tonight 😣 usually last bottle at 7:15 and he’s down 7:30-4 has a bottle then back asleep until 7:30am. He’s usually had about 30oz by bed time but he’s only had 22oz today and i’m stressssed out

Feed on demand apart from night time where her last bottle is at 8pm then ill do a dream feed at 11pm/12pm before I go to bed then she'll wake at 7am then go back to sleep until 9am

My little one is 12 weeks old, his first feed is normally between 6/7 and goes 4 hours between his feeds meaning his last feed is between 10/11pm.
On his 4th feed we take him up to bed and feed him and put him down in his next to me crib (monitor on etc) this is normally around 7pm ishh! His 5th feed is then normally a dream feed, sometimes he's awake and other times he isn't but it's the only way I can get all 5 feeds in without disturbing his routine x

so do you wake your LO up for the 5th feed? I get worried this means she won’t sleep through if I wake her but I want to make sure she has enough!! X

Yes we do! 9 times out of 10 he sleeps through me changing him and then pretty much dream feeds his 5th feed. If he does wake up it doesn't take him long to settle at all - obviously not the case for all babies but hopefully your little one could easily settle🤞x

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