Feeding 8month old at night

[Nevaehy12]

Hiya everyone, I have four kiddies and all have slept through from 6months.my 8 month old girl however is a different story!she was born 9lb 3 ao quite big and is a good eater.I put her to bed at 6-6 30, and will wake up at 10pm for a bottle and exactly 3 10am everg morning for another!!! Any ideas how I can get her out of this routine as I am in desperate need of a good nights sleep!! Or am I just asking for too much?? Xxx

That sounds pretty good to me. My eight month old currently wakes up every hour until 12

Oh!!! I feel bad now!!

I think because I've had it so good with the others I just expect the same lol

Maybe don't give milk in night and just try to settle or give sips of water. Have you tried anything like that?

Have you tried dropping the volume in the bottle slowly? We did and it 'worked' in that we went from two bottles to one with no upset for DS, but unfortunately what it didn't do was stop him waking - he still wakes up just as much and now there's one less time that we can resettle him with a feed (he refuses it now)! But lots of people do have success with dropping feeds leading to fewer wake ups.

I did do that for a few days and she just drunk it, woke up about ten mins later and moaned till she had her milk!!

I think she's is actually hungry !!

Maybe her bed time is too early. If she has later bed, her dinner will be later and bed time bottle later. She might just end up waking at midnight though for a feed then up at the crack of dawn to start her day.

Probably a bit or trial and error until you get something to work or she grows out of it!

Yeah I have tried putting her down later on and it made no difference! I guess it's not too bad waking up once for a bottle.

My DD was back on 2 hourly feeds at 8 months - I was bf'ing - it nearly finished me.

My 8 month old feeds every 2 hours

I'm going to shut up moaning!!!

I have 3 DC. I bf (third DC had one bottle a day, usually night feed) and the one I found most tiring at night was the one who needed night feeds till about 10 months. One stopped waking at night at 6 months and the third was over a year before stopped waking.

Sorry I don't have any tips to help, just to say that being woken at night is very wearing but I eventually got used to it and started to cope better. Babies are all different and I guess you have been lucky up to now.

Yeah I think she will grow out of it.it would be brilliant if I could go to sleep when lo does, but I don't think my other kiddies would want to go to bed at 6pm!

I would give my right arm for my 7 month old to follow that schedule!

I think mine was genuinely hungry too - which is why a very gradual reduction (we dropped an ounce every few days) worked, because he slowly replaced it with extra milk in the day without noticing. However, we got 'stuck' at 3oz for the 4am feed so I think he really isn't ready yet to go 12 hours with no food (or perhaps with no drink - he won't drink water in the day so there's no point offering it at night), which is obviously fine. The midnight feed went away astonishingly easily - but, as I said, it didn't do much for his wakings, a lot of which are in the evening and so nothing to do with hunger. Since yours sleeps soundly otherwise, though, it might make a big difference?

As an aside, I'm not sure what the point of the sleep board is if you're only allowed to post if your baby is the single worst sleeper ever - if someone posts that theirs wakes twice they get jumped on by people whose babies wake every two hours, if they post that they wake every two hours then someone else angrily tells them that theirs wakes every 40 minutes... It doesn't seem, as MNHQ seem to like to put it, 'in the spirit'

No I completely agree - I didnt mean to sound snippy. But sometimes I found it helpful to hear that other babies woke up as frequently or more frequently than mine - its reassuring, especially if you have other kids who haven't woken in the night much!

Very true!! I feel bad for the people who's babies don't sleep but as all my others slept well I'm not used to it! I have tried to feed her loads today so far so let's see if that's makes a difference!!

It is reassuring though as I couldn't understand what I was doing, if I was doing anything wrong xx

Most likely you arent doing anything wrong - they all just come out differently. Some are born lovely and others are born twats...

That's made me laugh!!! You've made my day xx

Only at 4 months with first child ( and obviously still wakes a couple
Of times in night ) but we have an app called baby feed timer it’s free for the first 7 days to trial and it really helps me see trends in how much he eats at day vs number of feeds he wakes for in night and what his hungrier times of the day are ... may be worth looking at that for the trends ... e.g in the morning 4 hourly feeds are what he needs but In the afternoon he can do 2 hourly more often than not which boosts his intake so we have managed to touch wood cut a feed in the night out ... not sure I would have picked up the trend with out looking at the data ... it was just by logging feeds every day and I noticed on the days / afternoons he ate more I had a better night ... so I am a little more
Proactive in ensuring he has an extra afternoon feed to
stock up

Phew - I was worried you might be offended! Hooe he grows out of it soon. Broken nights are utterly soul destroying, I'm right there with you!

U didnt offend!! Its something I would say.We all feel like saying that except you get frowned upon for saying it!!! im going to look at that app now and see what it says, anything is worth a go!!! Thank you xx