Night screaming hunger
My baby boy is just waking up screaming every three hours in the night for a bottle. We usually gives him a bottle and it settles him straight away. But both me and the partner can’t handle the screams. There is no movement or noise before the scream so I can’t prepare him a bottle fast enough (we use a prep machine). He is teething but we’re doing all we can. I’ve tried not feeding him and just rocking shushing and giving him a dummy but he screams until he gets a bottle. We’ve also started feeding him purees. Any advice and tips would be appreciated.
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If he’s waking every 3 hours could you not wake before he does to prepare the bottle ready for him? If he’s hungry he needs to be fed I wouldn’t try withholding milk x
I breastfeed mine but he wakes up every 1-2 hours still and has a piercing scream, like 0-100. He will also only be fed to sleep, I know it’s ‘normal’ but it’s bloody hard
Mine was rarely ever fed to sleep but recently that’s the only way she will go down on a night now every time she wakes through the night (which is a lot) she is expecting a bottle to go back off. Sometime I do just have to persist with rocking her otherwise I’d be feeding her nearly every hour!
Prep machines are pretty quick so I don’t think there’s much more you can do to get him a bottle any faster haha
Make a bottle early on in the day/ evening and put it in the fridge straight away. Then give it to your baby when he wakes up at night. The bottle lasts 24hrs in the fridge before your baby needs to drink it.
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