To not give him the milk?

[BastardBernie]

My DS is 17 weeks and is a very content baby. So far I have been extremely lucky that he has pretty much slept 7-7 every night since 6 weeks.
The poor little guy has started teething lately and out of the last 7 days he has woken up for milk at 2am and 6am. He goes back down after the milk but this is a bottle a day if not two more than what he is having normally and my God is he lovely and chubby!)
I really enjoy the chub but I obviously wish to keep an eye on it and was wondering whether I can give him water when he wakes at night?
Thanks

Its the 4 month growth spurt, he needs the milk. It will settle down soon.

17 weeks is tiny
Just give him the milk

Thank you both

I agree. He is too little to withhold feeds.

He could teething and also going through a growth spurt.

I would give the milk for now. Move onto water later if it doesn't stop. Not just yet perhaps.

Babies get chubby just before they suddenly grow and slim out again. At 17 weeks and two extra bottles of milk he is not an obese baby and you are not a parent-who-has-made-their-child-fat-and-can't-see-it. He is just a baby.

If you feed him less, he will still follow the pattern of getting chubby and then slimming and stretching a bit, but it will take longer to build up to each growth spurt, so he will have slightly fewer of them in the same time period, so he will be slightly smaller overall at every age. Taken to great extremes, this is why people who are malnourished as babies end up shorter as adults than people who are very well-fed.

Yes give him the milk. He obviously needs it

I appreciate your thoughts, thank you. I don't wish to deny him but I also don't want to create a habit if you see what I mean.?
Do you have any tips for teething in general, it's been a while since I've had a newborn

I completely agree with the chubby and then growth spurt Best

He needs the milk.

Teething - Anbesol, Weleda-Chamomilla granules and cold teethers.

my daughter drank more in the night when she was teething. it will pass - you won''t create a habit. he is too small for water.

They vary in their milk requirements as they grow up - roll with it. Babies are incapable of being greedy. :)

What bestZebbie said.

If he wants the milk give him it. He's only tiny.

Another vote for he needs the milk.

Anbesol, Bonjela, Calpol and baby Nurofen. Don't bother with the amber teething bracelet thingies.

You can't instil 'bad habits' in a baby as young as that. Let him have the milk, he's in the middle of a monster growth spurt.

I'm not a fan of abolishing night feeds at an arbitrary cut-off point either - all babies are different and some need night feeds for longer than others.

My baby is 18 was and weighs ten and a half kgs. Wearing 9-12 and 12-18mths clothes. He feeds on demand.

Your little one has been sleeping amazingly but this is classic sleep regression, growth spurt age.

Give him milk, you aren't supposed to give little babies water until they are on solids.