Feeding/Sleeping

[HeidiLee]

I am curious to know how many feeds a day everyones babies are having and how many hours unbroken sleep at night?

We do 5 feeds in 24 hours and night time sleep is 8:30pm-5am atm.

Our son is 4 months old.

[two cheeky smurfs]

Lucas has 5 feeds over 24 hours and atm sleeps from 7:30pm til 7:30am

Maddy has 6 feeds over 24 hours but not as much in a bottle as Lucas and atm Maddy goes to sleep at 7:30pm and usually wakes for a feed at bout 4or 5am then goes back to sleep until 7:30am!!

[angelsofmine]

Nate is one night through sleep and the next not so much
last night he slept from 1200 till 400am but the night before it was 930pm till 500am...it doesnt matter if he has a dream feed either...he is 15 weeks today and has 6 feeds on ave a day....

[Lilahh]

Hi ladies

Are your babies BF or FF?

DS is 8 weeks old. We get one 5-6 hour stretch of unbroken sleep a night, roughly 10pm-3/4am. (Not last night, was grizzly after his needles). Im feeding him 6-7 times in a 24 hour period. We are BF.

[Mummy2R&K]

I am curious to know how many feeds a day everyones babies are having and how many hours unbroken sleep at night?

We do 5 feeds in 24 hours and night time sleep is 8:30pm-5am atm.

Our son is 4 months old.

DD is roughly the same at 3 months, but I've started putting her down a bit earlier at 7.30pm and she will wake anywhere between 3.30-5.30.

Sometimes she will have 6 smaller bottles, cos she never takes a huge amount so will often want smaller bottles more often.

[Linda R]

My dd is exactly the same pattern not a lot of day sleep but good night sleep. Love the night sleep:yelclap:

[lozie2]

cassie is bf i wake her at 7am, 11am, 3pm and 6.30pm... not sure im feeding her often enough. but she isnt waking.

[angelsofmine]

Hi ladies

Are your babies BF or FF?



Nate is breast fed....

[kotakai]

I'm so jealous of all this sleeping :laughing:


Cruz is FF & feeds every 4 hours, so he has 6 bottles.

Can't wait till he decides to drop the 2am feed, LOL.

[Mrs Awesome]

My DS is 6.5weeks and has 5-6 breastfeeds in 24 hours. Most nights he sleeps from 10.30 or 11pm til 7.30-8.30am (he dropped the middle of the night feed at about 3 weeks)

During the day he was sleeping well between feeds most of the time, but since he was in hospital for 6 days last week he is not sleeping much during the day anymore...I think it stuffed up his routine, so working hard this week to get him back to good daytime sleeps too.

Huge hugs to those of you who are struggling with sleeps...its bloody exhausting when it doesnt work the way you want it to. xx

[Cheerio]

Huge hugs to those of you who are struggling with sleeps...its bloody exhausting when it doesnt work the way you want it to. xx

I was going to say exactly the same. My DD was a shocker sleeper so I feel like I have struck gold this time. Zane sleeps from 7-7.30pm and wakes anywhere from 1am-5am for a bottle and then usually sleeps until about 8am ish. He is on formula.

Lilahh, don't be discouraged hun, your gorgeous little guy will stretch it out soon for ya I am sure, you are doing a great job!!! I say this in the nicest possible way as I remember reading threads with DD about all these people who were so lucky with their bubs sleeping through and getting so much more sleep than me and all I wanted to do was cry. Eventually I tried to give my DD formula thinking it would help and well it didn't she still woke all the time and then flat out refused bottles anyway.

[Eeyore]

DS is 4months old. He is FF and has 3 day feeds; goes to bed at around 6:30pm, a dream feed between 9 and 10pm and wakes at between 7 and 7:30am. He is not on solids yet.

[Jamaica]

DD2 is 4 months (31/3) and is on 4x 4 hrly feeds of 200mls but they have thickner in them so they end up about 225mls each and are a lot more filling that formula alone, shes not yet on solids, we will try and hold out til 6months unless she's not sleeping well then we will reconsider :)
I think it also depends on their weight too, my ob said a general rule he goes by is once bubs is 8kg its time for solids, but i no most people dont wait that long