Bottle feeding routines

Hi! My LO is almost 10 weeks and on reflux milk, we do 5 feeds a day and really trying for a longer stretch at night, currently she feeds 6am/10.30am/3pm/7.30pm and then goes to sleep around 8.30pm I then wake her up for a feed at 11.45pm which she sleeps through then will sleep until around 3.30/4am but then just grunts and makes noises until 5/5.30am where I usually get her up and cuddle, any tips to get a deeper sleep for her?

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Is there a reason you’re still waking her?
I do about 12 feeds a day (expressed milk and snacky baby) so I can’t imagine doing so little feeds but very different circumstances.

The guidelines say 5 bottles of 180mls a day so I wake her to make sure she’s eating enough I’m a FTM and get anxious if I do anything wrong!

Personally i dont wake my LB for feeds at all anymore.

He feeds closer together through the day - typically in and around 7am,9am,12pm,3pm,5pm,8pm,11pm

Sometimes he doesnt wake for the last feed and if he doesnt i just leave him be! Last night he had his last bottle around 8pm and that was him till 7.30 this morning
He does stir and grunt etc throughout the night but i just leave him be and he usually self settles and if he wants fed he waked up and cries xx

thank you can I ask how old your LB is and what amount you feed?

I'm on 6 bottles a day but I class a day as 24hrs. I use the huckleberry app to track what he's had. He doesn't always take a full bottle. He's 8 weeks and no routine at all. I just let him tell me when he's hungry. He normally feeds 9pm and then up at 2am and again around 6 where I normally just stay up. I'd never wake a sleeping baby but thats just me 😊 as long as happy and gaining weight I wouldn't worry to much about what's on the box, it's only guidelines 😊

He will be 10 weeks on monday and he takes 4-5oz - been following this similar pattern now for close to 4 weeks

I will add that is a loose pattern and doesnt always follow it and he does have the odd night here and there where he is up at 2/3 for a feed i just follow his lead x

Thank you and

If you don’t wake baby they will probably adjust and still get the same amount in.
I wouldn’t wake baby and if they have reflux I’d try Fred more little and often in the day xxx

Thank you! I gave an extra oz at their evening feed and did not wake for the late night feed and she slept 8 hours!

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