Hi
My baby was born at 33 weeks - is now 5 months actual. She is breastfed apart from her bedtime fed which has been a bottle of my milk since she was about 5 weeks old. We wanted to introduce a Bottle at bedtime as my first fed to sleep until she was 15 months and I stopped bfing and I wanted to get to a point with this one that her dad could do bedtime.
She feeds about 3 hourly during the day. I admit I'm quite stressy about it and so even if she's not giving out hunger cues I'll still offer her boob. For a while now the routine has been feed at 6:30 then in bed between 7-7:30. She does a great job of settling in her crib with a pat and a dummy. She's been waking once in the night for a feed around 3am.
The last week or so she's started to completely refuse her bedtime feed and screams and screams until she's so tired she just goes to bed without having anything. I've tried offering her boob but also not interested so don't think it's just a bottle thing.
This means, depending on her feeding during the day, she might have her last feed at 4pm before going to bed at 7. She has still been waking for a feed except today it got to 3am and she hadn't woken so I've dream fed her as was concerned it'd been such a long time since her last feed.
Anyone got any advice or ideas about what could be going on. This absolutely isn't about trying to get her to sleep through (couldn't find a feeding section on the boards). I'm just worried she isn't having enough milk as she's still tiny.
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FindingNormal · 07/10/2017 03:37
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