to feed 7 month old in the night?

[happygilmore]

I hadn't thought anything of it to be honest, but have seen loads of posts on here recently saying they shouldn't need it.

DD is 7 months, ff, and has one feed (between 100-180mls generally) a night. We're doing blw and she does have three meals a day but obviously it varies how much solids she has.

We don't mind feeding her at night at all (she's obviously hungry so why would we) and tbh I'd thought most people still were feeding their DC at night at this age. Is this not the case?

[thebrownstuff]

happy As long as you and baby are happy and hea;thy then I don't think it matters what you do. So don't doubt yourself, if we listened to what everyone said about our mothering god knows how we'd survive the judgements!

[happygilmore]

Sorry MumNW I guess I doubted myself after reading things on here, I don't normally but have no one in RL to ask. I've got a long-term health problem that has stopped me getting to baby groups etc so it's sometimes a little hard to benchmark what's normal and what's not.

[MatureUniStudent]

Well, my autistic little one had bottles in bed until he was 2.5 - it was a comfort thing and anything that meant I got some sleep, I did. I have had four children. Two breastfed, one never breastfed (no.3 go figure). All of mine had to be at the begging me stage to not wear a nightime nappy before I let them "be dry". I am a great believer in letting children decide what they need and at the pace they need it to happen.

My eldest is off to Uni, the other two are doing great at Secondary, and the autistic one is an utter joy to me and thriving at primary.

None of them need bottles during the night.... Just me. White wine in a glass. Chilled.

[HeathcliffMoorland]

If your DD wants it and you're happy to give it, I don't see any problem with it at all.