Overnight feeding help
My baby is combination fed, she is 8 weeks old and has a bottle of breast milk about 7pm, sleeps for approx 3 hours with some occasional fussing, wakes up for a bottle so I give her forumla and sleeps for another 3 hours, I then breast feed her overnight, she feeds for a few minutes then falls asleep (I try to wake her up to get her to go longer which she doesn’t always), I put her back down and she is grunting, thrashing and trying to roll on her side and her eyes are closed (she does this most of the night but usually settles back to deep sleep). I try to settle her for about 30/40 mins but give up and pick her back up and she feeds again only for a few minutes and the same cycle starts and this happens till 6am when partner gives her morning feed.
Is she using breast for comfort for those few hours?
Has anyone experienced similar and should I trial a bottle middle of the night to try get her to go back off?
Any tips / experiences welcomed. Thanks x
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We're in a similar routine with a bottle before bed and then bf overnight. My lo and first baby did this. I always think it's gas rather than hunger and they can't settle properly so will look for comfort as they get older it tends to settle down and they sleep better xx
@rosie @Rachel thank you both, good to know I’m not alone 💕
My son did this, he is 11 weeks old. I just bottle feed him at night and I would bf his first meal since it was the time I make the most milk. Then I switched to exclusively pumping. I now wake up only once at night to pump. When I switched he sleeps 6-7 hours now. My son is a comfort feeder on the breast so night time feeds just did not work for us.
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Our little one is 13 weeks old now, and until 11 weeks she was waking every two hours, so we only got about 45 minutes sleep if that, I think it was partly for comfort and she always fed, but then I try and remember that they’re just a little baby in the crib and it’s understandable they want comfort. You’ll get there, it’s incredibly hard you should be so proud as a parent. She also went through a phase of crying and grunting in her sleep, which is really disrupting. ! And it took her a while to be happy to sleep in the crib for more than 15 minutes. Now she wakes only 2 to 3 times a night and sleeps easy in the crib. 💕