Sleeping and feeding - advice needed

Hi

So our LO has had a couple of nights over the last couple of weeks where he has done 5-6.5 hour stretches of sleep which has been amazing.

The only problem we have is that the following night, the sleep is garbage and we’re back to 3 hour stretches because he’s absolutely ravenous, it’s as if he hasn’t caught up on the missed feeds from the previous night.

He’s 10 weeks and already on 6oz bottles and we’ve started introducing a 7oz bottle before bed as he wasn’t satisfied with the 6oz, so we don’t want to up that but we’re not sure how to make sure he’s being fed enough the day following a big sleep to stop him being so hungry the following night.

He isn’t showing any additional hunger cues during the day or wanting feeding any more often than usual which is why we’re a bit confused as to why he’s so hungry the next night.

Anyone who has a good sleeper consistently able to share some advice?

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Feed every 3 hours during the day, use the huckleberry app for nap times and when waking up follow an eat-play-sleep pattern until bedtime x

thanks 😊 we already do all this but it still doesn’t make a difference.

If he’s skipping an overnight feed maybe you need to up his bottles during the day to make sure he’s still getting the same amount of calories in? I know you said you’ve increased his last bottle but I’m assuming he’d take more than an ounce overnight so that’s not enough to make up for what he’s missing? I can’t help really with bottles as I’m EBF but making sure I feed regularly through the day has helped us get consistent 6 hour stretches at night.

Ah I would up his daytime bottles in that case then and hope for the best haha x

My little one was the same however we then offered 7oz on first feed in the morning after a long stretch of sleep, then three 6oz throughout the day the another 7oz before bed. Really helped settle him and then we get even longer at night now.

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