To give 4 and a half month old porridge

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My DD is 4 and a half month old. She wakes 3 times during the night to feed. I offer her 5 ounce and she drinks 4 - 4.5, so she truly is waking to feed. I have been told that mixing some baby porridge in with formula before bedtime will help her sleep longer. However now a days your advised to wait until 6 month to give baby any sort of food, but baby porridge says 4 month+ on packaging.

Dunno what to do for the best. WWYD? Let baby wake for feeds or try and fill up more before sleep?

@amazinggrace

That is very nice of you. Thank you.

I have not said once that you don't love your child. Please don't put words in my mouth. All I am pointing out is the guidelines and as I've also said, if you choose to ignore them that's your prerogative. I have been honest in saying it infuriates me when parents choose to go against guidelines because I simply cannot understand why anyone would knowingly put their child at risk.

My advice to your issue about night wakings is to wait. Your child will grow out of it. Clearly that's not what you want to hear though and your looking for magic solutions. There are none. Babies don't sleep through.

Is there room for a mattress in the baby's room, then?

Oh, we all start out noting all this stuff down that tends to go out the window. :o

@amazinggrace

I fear we're in a "your baby your rules Hun" situation, and any advice counter to the rules of Hun Club will be met with at best- vitriol, and at worst, ignorance.

I'm off.

Best of luck, OP. And really really try not to worry about the waking up. It's normo.

Weebo once she regained her birth weight i stopped noting it down as HV said I didn't need to do it anymore. But I will definitely start doing it again to see if DD has the same pattern every day

Nah, it's just a supportive not shitting on any one situation.

demented I’ve got a feeling back then they may have said baby rice at 12+....then weaned onto purée etc at 4 months,

@queennef
I think you're right :) I need to go anyway...I have a 3yo who has just woken up :) #neversleepsthrough

@weebo

Sorry Hun. Didn't realise that Bfing and cosleeping and admitting to being the proud owner of an 18 month old still waking up was shitting on someone.

I thought it was just different parenting styles.

My mistake.

Grams no there is no room for mattress otherwise my partner and I would be stepping over the top of her to go to the loo. The mattress would have to be right down my side of the bed. I don't think it would be safe.

Garma* stupid auto corrector

So you weren't condescending at all?

'Course not.

It was 4 months prior to 2003 and it changed to 6 months in 2003. It was not 3 months for baby rice. I started dd at 17 weeks (in 2004) and in hindsight it was too early. With ds (born 2006) I waited until around 23 weeks.

What times does she wake in the night?
So say if she has a feed at 8pm and then 11pm, could you maybe go to bed after the 8 feed and then let your DH feed the 11pm before he then goes to bed. Then when she wakes at say 2am, you’ll have had around 5.5 hrs sleep.

I think a 4.5 month old waking 3 times a night is pretty normal. My lo was still waking that amount then. I wouldn't introduce any food before 6 months myself.

@Queen
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Our two older ones started solids before 6 months.
Only little tiny bits though like rusks. It was still the done thing then.
I knew so many women who rubbed alcohol on gums, for some peace and quiet. I'm talking 26 years ago.
I have to learn so much about all this stuff if I'm going to be looking after future grandchildren.
I think with all 3 of ours we were advised differently on sleeping position.
Guidelines keep changing, we learn new things.
I'm so glad that childcare knowledge is improving.
Gosh we had packets of cereal and rice from 3 months. I used to freeze ice cube trays of pureed veg, organic as we grew our own.

Huge derail but have heard pregnant women shouldn't eat carrots.
I used to eat them quite a lot.
Is this true and why?

Verbena recently her last feed as been between 6:30pm-7:30pm then she's been waking at 11:30pm-12am then 2-2:30am then 5:30/6am

Gillybeans I wasn't advised not to eat carrots while I was pregnant. I haven't heard of that

Carrots are fine. :o

I think it's because of vitamin A? But in carrots, it's perfectly safe.

Ah ok. So for you to catch up a bit on sleep, that pattern I mentioned above might be good for a bit. As long as your DH can do the feed between 11 and 12. He might only need to do it for a couples of weeks so you get back to feeking a bit less tired and your dd might have then eeked out her timings a little.

They do seem well spaced though for a baby that young and it does mean you’re able to get a good few hours in between.

I know you said you can’t manage to nap in the daytime but even if you just have a lay down with a magazine or to watch tv, it’s still resting.

Verbena I normally get my partner to do the 2-2:30 feed as I go to bed later than him. As it is 11:05 now I might beat DD to it and go up stairs soon with a bottle prepared and wake her at 11:30 before I get settled in bed otherwise I'll be straight back to feeding her.

Aw thank you.
Second hand knowledge, you're better off researching yourself

My baby is 7 months now and goes to bed at 6.30pm has a bottle then one at 11pm and one at 4am then 3 meals a day. She used to sleep from 6.30pm until 4am at 3 months old but then the 4 month sleep regression hit and she woke at 11pm 2am and 4am. She soon dropped the 2am after a month or so. You just have to go with what your baby wants. I never forced a routine but have found one together that works