My 5 week old baby has recently dropped to 7 feeds in a 24hr period some days due to longer stretch at night. Feeds 3 hours in days but can go 4-6 hours at night. Is this okay? Or do is 8 feeds a must? I feed on baby’s cues/demand. Lots of wet nappies. Seems content drinking 3-4oz each time sometimes may drop to 2.5oz. So roughly 600-700ml per day. Decided today to stop tracking on huckleberry app as I’m driving myself insane and it’s just making me feel more anxious I think tracking all the time!
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My little boy was one having 1 feed overnight around that age (12hour nights) and going around 4 hours in the day, as long as they follow there own centile curve and have plenty of wet nappies its fine x

I was exactly like you I used huckleberry for my son and honestly it drove me crazy and wasn’t healthy so at the end I only used it for getting an idea of when they needed to go down for naps. He’s now almost 3. My 6 wk old now is on 5 bottles a day every 3/4hrs and is taking 5oz, now sometimes she’ll have 4 and others she’ll take the full 5oz. They say go by your child’s cues , now my daughter is pretty good at sleeping but we do our best during the night to stir her for a feed and even then she’ll only take 2 maybe 3 oz before she’s deep asleep again. To me 8 feeds is too much what does your formula tub say to give them? Plus my HV says don’t let them go any longer than 5hrs for a feed if they’re not hungry.

Sounds absolutely fine to me, I wouldn’t push them to eat more than they want or need - every 3 hours in the day and then longer stretches at night is exactly what you want x

I would just let them do their own thing if they've passed their birth weight, have plenty of wet nappies etc. My son is 8 weeks and last night did 10pm til 5am, the night before did 2am til 7.30am and normally does only 3 to 4 hours in the day. He then does weird and different patterns every night in preparation to drop bottles of a night. It drives me mad because I cant track but Ive learned to just accept it. He currently has 180mls/6oz per bottle in the day and then of a night its around 30 to 90mls.