Night bottles
I’m so lost , I know she’s 13 months and the pediatrician said it’s okay to skip middle of the night bottles. She’s a great weight and growing. She wakes up at like 3 am screaming , and I know she’s hungry. I try soothing her but i end up feeding her . It’s like we’re raising gremlins out here. What are we doing to transition from night feeds. At daycare they are dropping her to one bottle after her nap. She’s there 4 days a week because I work full time : so I try to keep her on that same schedule when she’s home with me Thursdays . Help
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Hi 👋🏻 whats her feeding like? I used to give my daughter oatmeal before bed.
Whenever you drop a bottle, I’d make sure to give her more food! Her body is used to the calories so it’ll need to make up for the dropped bottle. Also, kids grow soooo fast. So sometimes they can’t sleep through the night without getting hungry! Which is a variation of normal!
What worked to get my LO off a milk bottle in general was reducing it gradually. Depending how much milk she has at 3am reduce by 20/30ml so she's not starving, also maybe a pre bed snack, yogurt or the sort... This reduction should also allow her to feel more hungry during the day as her body adjusts to when her body expects nutrition.
Mine is 15m and we still do night bottles. Weaning down in amount until she no longer needs. We do one to fall asleep and then one if she wakes up in the middle of the night. 4oz right now and it’s whole milk. None during the day which is why we don’t feel bad about her needing it at night. Weekends are harder because of naps and she doesn’t like to nap at daycare during the week
Thank you for the advice ladies! I think I might start decreasing the bottle size she has when she wakes up. Might be the easiest.
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