Feeding

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How often are your babies feeding at night?

Any tips to get my little one to sleep through the night? I’m so tired. I’m not getting sleep at all.

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So not my Nov baby but my first - we really focused on making sure he was getting enough during the day but he still wanted to nurse until 8ish months old once a night.

A dreamfeed right before you get into bed could also help. So if I were to do that with my Nov baby - she goes to bed 7/730. I go to bed at 10. I’d do a dream feed at 945ish.

It really helps if they are eating enough during the day…

I make sure mine is drinking 24-32 ozs a day.

Definitely agree with both mamas here. It’s most important they are getting enough in the day for them to make it through the night. Once we started her on purées and oatmeal she started waking once in the night. Hang in there!

My girl eats every 2-3hrs during the day and this week she started to do the same at night again. 😂 before she would go 8+ hours at night. I think her teeth 🦷 are about to cut through so she needs more comfort

Mine has been sleeping through the night without feeding since he was about 3 months old. He eats around 30oz during the day and he always falls asleep after the 8-9pm feeding of about 4oz. I don’t know if this has anything to do with it, but we do cycles with him during the day such that we feed him as soon as he wakes up, then he’s awake for about 2 hours, and then he takes a nap, and we repeat it all over around 5 times a day. But in the evening I feed him also right before putting him in the crib for the night.

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