Formula fed babies

How often are your formula fed babies having a bottle and how much? Feel like with my daughter she was going longer stretches by now but we are still feeding every 2/3 hours

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It really varies for my baby, can be 2,3 or 4 hours, depending on if she finished the last bottle, if she’s alseep ect xx

My boi goes between 2/4 hrs depends on how many oz you are feeding xx

My little one can go 3/4 hours though there's been times she goes longer because she refuses the bottle

Depends how much she's taking each time as well, I find if my little one has drained the bottle then it's awhile before she's hungry again

In the exact same boat x

My daughter started to go a bit longer at one point too but then went back to evry 3 hours. Its totally normal and doesnt really matter. As long as they are getting their calories in a day its fine to feed between 2 to 3 hours. Its likely growth spurts. My baby typically has 3 to 4oz depending on how close together the feeds are and then she has a bigger feed before bed to see her through the night. X

My LO is 12 weeks, feeds every 4 hours and has 5oz ish each feed. Through the night she goes 5/6 hours x

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Dehydrated over night?

My boy, 5 weeks old, has been sleeping really well through the night but woke up this morning with a dry nappy so I tickled his tummy with a wipe and he did a wee but it was not much and had the tiniest bit of urate crystals. I'll be contacting hv at 9 but does anyone have any suggestions? Should I be waking him for a night feed?
He slept 10:30pm till 5am which is great but I'm worried it's dehydrating him. Anyone had a similar experience?

What do I do

Help please

My little one is 8 and a half months old, and every single night she’s having these like 2 hour wakes in the middle of the night around 2am.. shes not crying she’s not really tired she’s just wide awake looking around trying to grab things, she’s not overly hungry although I do feed to try help settle but doesn’t normally work.

I can’t stand and rock her for two hours, I’m exhausted 🫩 should I just let her go feral for 2 hours and let her play by herself with something?

I’ve tried more/less daytime sleep, I’ve tried earlier/later bedtime just nothing seems to help, it’s not every single night but maybe 4/5 out of 7 😢

Any advice would really help

Am I in the wrong ?

So me and my partner have an on going issue.
I have got up every night and every morning with our daughter ( 2half )
He doesn't get up till 9am He gets ready and goes to work around 9:30 - 9:45 so He spends about 15 minutes with us each morning. This is my problem 🙄 He turns round to me every time I bring this up and says I'm working on the road so I need my sleep unless you want me to have an accident. I'm angry all the time about his respons as I feel it's just an excuse for not getting up and spending time with us. He doesn't get back till around 7:30 or later each night so he doesn't get to see our daughter much as she is in bed by 8 - 8:30. So He will have about half hour if that. He then decides to come to bed about 1 or later so we don't see echother much but apparently that's my fault as I go up to bed as my daughter is normally up in the night and full awake by 6am.

Am i in the wrong for addressing He doesn't spend enough time with his daughter and he should get-up earlier to spend this time with her before work 🤷‍♀️( He only has one day a week off )

Feeding

My little one is 8 weeks old and I’ve noticed she doesn’t wake up for feeds during the night now. She can go 7-8 hours without waking up, is that normal? I’ve tried to wake her up in btw to give her for a feed as I get worried she’s not drinking enough. She will sometimes take to it.

I feel so ashamed of myself idk

I had my baby 3 days ago. I still don’t have my supply. Yes I have colostrum and yes it’s starting to turn white but it’s not enough to the point today my newborn was desperately crying latched onto my boob because I guess not enough is coming out :( I had to give her formula cause I couldn’t bare to see her in such desperation anymore, she’s not sleeping soundly after not being able to sleep all day today. When is my milk coming in? Will it even? I’ve been hydrating eating oats. Body armor, and also I’ve been latching her no matter what, my nipples are so sore from cluster feeding.

Crying

Does anyone else’s baby just cry allll the time. I feel like the only time my baby doesn’t cry is when they’re asleep! She does have reflux but is on medication for this but I just feel like unless I hold her all day she just cries it’s so exhausting