background: daughter born via emergency c section at 30+6 weeks. in hospital for eight weeks requiring breathing assistance/tube feeding ect. in the hospital it was a feed every three hour routine in the final few weeks before she got home as she was only taking a little at a time (60ml so about 2 ounces).
she is almost five months old, almost three months corrected (from due date rather than birth date) and I'm still waking her through the night to feed! I believe she would sleep straight through from her last feed at say 10.30pm till at least 6.30am next morning. the longest I've left her through the night has been six hours and that was by accident (slept through alarm). I still had to wake her after six hours.
a lot of people think I'm bonkers for waking a sleeping baby, but the problem is, she still doesn't take a huge amount of milk in the one go (formula fed)! when she came home she was only taking 2-3oz a time every three hours, but now we've built it up a bit and she takes 4-6oz every three and a half hours during the day and every 4 and a half hours during the night. I don't feel like I can leave her to sleep all night because she doesn't take a sufficient volume of milk before bed and still wouldn't make up for the missed night feed in the morning! after I left her six hours that one time I expected her to take a lot, but she didn't!
aibu and just stuck following a regimented schedule? nightly pattern goes more or less like this:
10.30pm: last feed before bed 4-6 ounces
3.00am: has to be woken, usually only takes 4 ounces as she's knackered
7.30am: has to be woken again, first feed of the day between 4-6 ounces
i feel so bad for waking her all the time! should I start dropping the 3.00am feed? would she make up for it in the morning?