Babies refuse 10:30 feed

[glamourbadger]

My twins are 15 weeks and suddenly refusing to take the 10:30 feed - neither is hungry and regardless of what I do they refuse to take anything. They were both sleeping from 10:30pm through till 7am but now back to waking at 4am which is rather frustrating!

I've tried pushing the feed forward and the earliest they will take a bottle is midnight. My husband thinks we should just push the 4am out until we get till 7am but I think it's unlikely they will go 7pm-7am until they are weaned.

Did anyone else have this problem? Thanks for your help!

Hi glamourbadger,

We had exactly the same with DS1. He started to refuse his milk at 10.30ish at 13 weeks. It wasn't worth fighting over, as he would scream and scream. So we stopped giving it, and he slept through til 5.45 the first night (when we gave him a small feed and settled him back), then 7 after that. I was afraid he'd go back to waking in the night as well, but he didn't. This was before he was weaned. Your twins will probably push on to 7 quite soon.

If they aren't hungry, there isn't much you can do imo, except stop trying, and either give it at midnight (but soon they'll stop being hungry then too...), or leave it and see what happens.

Good luck.

I would forget the 10.30 feed, if they don't want it then they don't want it!
I had the early waking thing with ds, he would wake at 4am, I would take a little longer to give the feed each morning, don't rush in and feed as soon as they wimper or cry. Then change nappy or distract for few minutes a day. The time will eventually drag out.
This is what I did and it worked.
(My ds slept through the night from 6 weeks from 7pm to 7am, but he did start waking at 4am and this is how I solved it)

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