Ds2 is 5mo this week.
He is FF and has a large 8oz dream feed at 10pm (bed at 7pm with another large bottle). A couple of months ago he stopped having a night feed because he seemed happy enough over night and stopped drinking his breakfast bottle.
However in the last month his sleep has gone to shit. 4 month sleep regression hell (see my previous threads). Over Xmas we hit a low point where he was waking every 40 mins from midnight until 0530 when he was up for the day. So we have got rid of the dummy which has almost instantly improved things. He now sleeps well from his 10pm dream feed until some time in between 0200-0400 where he wakes up crying.
When he wakes up we leave him for 3 mins then shhhh pat. And then 5mins and then shh pat. For a few days this sent him back to sleep until 0630 (bliss!) but now he will not settle in the night unless we feed him.
So we have started a night bottle again at any time from 0230-0400 depending on when he wakes. This does send him back to sleep but then he will only drink 1-2oz of his breakfast bottle at 8am which then fucks up his feed routine for the rest of the day :-(
Wwyd? Would you just stick the bottle in at night for an easy life and then just accept that he won't have much of a morning feed? And accept that this will probably change in the next few weeks as he starts to eat solids? (We have started with a little bit of baby porridge this week - no comments or judgements on this please! Weaned my first son on purees at 5mo and it worked for us. Plus ds2 is 98th centile and already weighs 20lb, don't think milk is gonna cut it much longer!).
Or would you persevere with a bit of shhh pat and gentle sleep training st night to try and drag him out till a sensible "morning bottle"
Time rather than 4am?
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Reintroducing night feed at 5mo (FF)...wwyd?
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BotBotticelli · 01/01/2016 09:31
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