Night feeds

My little boy is the exact same! Sometimes he wakes at any time and sometimes he sleeps through and I can’t seem to figure out why!

Maybe some nights she’s just a bit more hungry? Or it could be a comfort thing? My daughter doesn’t feed in the night but still feeds to sleep before bed out of comfort. Does she have a dummy?

My baby is breastfed and still feels somewhere between 3 to 5 times a night. Send help 🤣

no she doesn’t have a dummy, so yeah I didn’t think about it like that , could be a comfort thing!

omg 😱 poor you, you must be an exhausted mummy, I feel bad moaning now 😂 x

I can only wish!! My son has never slept through. Breastfed though so perhaps that’s why?

maybe try just settling her back to sleep without offering a bottle? My daughter used to wake and I’d give her a bottle and she’d go back to sleep but I then realised it wasn’t even hunger. Even now if she wakes up she’d take a bottle but it’s merely just comfort as opposed to hunger. If she is still hungry, have you tried offering a bit more dinner or more oz before bed? X

Things like this are just trial and error 😂

yeah I think that’s what I’m going to start to do, see if she will go back to sleep without one, could be becoming a habit rather then hunger. I’ve not noticed a difference when giving her more milk or food before bed really. I’ve filled her right up before bed and she still wakes lol. Thank you for the advice 🥰

My little girl has recently started sleeping through (the last week) she is exclusively breastfed and started nursery 3 weeks ago.
She has a feed before nursery, them has breakfast, lunch, morning and afternoon snacks at nursery. She also has about 8oz of expressed milk and water whilst there.
I pick her up just after 4pm and she has a feed then her tea.she goes to bed about 6.45pm and she has a little feed before going down.
She has then started sleeping until 5.30am so I give her a feed and she goes back down until 6.30/7 when I get her up and ready for nursery and just give her another quick feed before dropping her off.

I always thought bf would continue feeding through the night so I'm confused. I'm unsure as to whether this is a sign we should stop bf when she hits 1yr old because maybe she doesn't really need it now?!

Deborah/ all kids are different and if yours sleeps so well just rejoice in it! BF for a long as you wish, the guidance is until 12 mths if you want to avoid formula - if this makes sense.

My first slept through the night from 9mths, 2nd not till gone 2 and the current one wakes a lot and is 9 mths. All exclusively breastfed.

Good luck. Sounds like a dream!

She washes still but no bottles

Our LO is EBF and still feeds usually once during the night, at other times it's twice.

If they wake for feeding it could be due to three things really: hunger, comfort, or (the one that's often forgotten about) thirst x

Yes! We never know what sorta night we’re in for either. But he always wakes for atleast one! But last night was two! We’ve tried lowering the amount we give him and he’s now on 4oz in the night and drinks it and goes back to sleep so 100% doesn’t need it as it’s such a small amount! But hey ho

Thank you for your replies x

My LO wakes up between 4am and 6am for a bottle.

in short yes...

for context she managed without a bottle at 7-8 mths then she had some.ilnesses and regressions, crap sleep...even now, we just give her some milk to tire her out and to give us a break at night, but she can be up for 2hrs wanting to be rocked, my husbands back is in bits...I don't know what the he'll happened between mth 8 when she was fine, with the odd wakening...and now, she's 11mths old but it's really gotten bad...bedtime can take 2hrs so I given up and take her up at 730, and hope by 830 she.sleeps...sorry for the long story, we are so tired

Some nights he feeds once (I think maybe he is having a growth spurt then) and other times he doesn’t have a feed overnight

you're not the only one up multiple times a night, I'm right there with you 🙌🏽

@Henna sorry to hear this, we will get there one day! 🤞