Is it time to give up the late night feed?

[mum2bubba]

Nathan has a bottle at 7pm and then in bed around 7:30, he then has another one around 10pm/10:30pm and sleeps til about 7am the next day. The last few nights when I've gone to feed him he'll only drink a small amount of milk and it takes him ages (before he was drinking about 180 to 240 mils and it'd take him less than 5 minutes, he'd guzzle it down). I try to give him more but he just makes a fuss, even after I burp him he's finished.

Is he telling me he's no longer wanting these late night feeds or what? I can't remember how old my girls were when they stopped theres. I THINK they were about 4 or 5 months when they were on solids, but Nath isn't on solids yet.

I don't have a problem if he doesn't want his late night bottle but I don't want him to wake up an hour after I go to bed. I'd rather feed him and THEN go to bed so he doesn't wake up 'til morning.

He's almost 4 months.

[TripleTime]

I stopped when i was having to wake them for the feed. Try without for a few nights & see what happens.

[Wookie1]

My DS is 4 months and is beginning to drink less at the dream feed, but like you I don't want to go back to dawn wake up. Maybe give it a few more days, and drop and see for a night or two.

Good luck, I'd be interested to hear how you go. :)

[Mummy2R&K]

I would try giving less earlier, then less and earlier again, rather than stopping cold turkey. :thumbsup:

[mum2bubba]

Yeah, I might try that actually, Mummy2R&K. He still drinks some of his formula but not all of it. I might just put in a smaller amount of milk and see what happens. He's been waking a little earlier than usual (usually he wakes around 7am) but he's been waking around 6:30 (I want to try and get him back to 7am, I hate starting my day before then, I'm too grumpy if I do). I bring him into our bed if he wakes before 7 though and give him a small bottle of milk or sometime he just wants his dummy and then he'll sleep for another hour.

[Mummy2R&K]

If he's happy playing in his cot, just leave him there a bit longer.

Or DD will usually just come and lay in bed with me and DS will come and join and they will laugh and play, while I get a chance to wake up properly :sleeping:

Also he might not want a bottle straight away either.

DD will usually wait 45mins-1hr before she wants her bottle, if I try and give it to her earlier, she will hardly drink any. Takes a while to feel hunger when you've woken up.

[Lily of the Nile]

I was going to suggest that he's probably not needing that last feed and using it as a comforter. Maybe stretching the last feed from 7 to about 8-8.30 and bed by 9.30? This is Ds's routine, and he'll still sleep till the morning and he also isn't hungry fisrt thing, I put him in bed while I still rest and he just plays. But if he has this last bottle earlier than 8-8.30, he'll want another before bed, so for me it's a time thing rather than an amount issue?

[mum2bubba]

Well, the last few days I didn't give him a bottle at 10pm and he didn't wake for one. He slept from about 8pmish to about 7am (though this morning he woke at about 4am or whatever but I gave him his dummy and went back to sleep til 7:45am). He seems a bit slow to take his 7pm/7:30 bottle though and doesn't drink all of it (I put 240 mils in but he drinks about 200 mils, same with a few of his bottles during the day).

I think he's pretty much finished his late night bottle.

[Wookie1]

Thats terrific! :)

My DS drank all his late night bottle last night and woke 3 times, so I have no idea what to try. I guess the good old wait and see.