Night feeds

[Palmwoods]

When do babies normally drop the 2am(ish) feed? DS is 12 weeks and feeds at 7pm, 10.30pm then has been waking up at around 2 every morning but this morning didn't want to feed. I kept trying and eventually he did take some but then didn't want to feed at 6am when he woke. I'm thinking he could be waking out of habit. Any thoughts?

DS dropped his 2am feed at 12 weeks. It did coincide with me giving up bf then.
Sounds like he doesn't want to feed then, and what you are giving him means he isn't very hungry at 6. Is he ff or bf?

I have just stopped breastfeeding and now he's totally on formula, which could explain it all. Sounds like a similar situation. Did DS still wake for this feed out of habit? If so, what did you do?

On the first day of ff he woke at 2am (after having a feed at 10.30pm). I gave him some but he wasn't really interested. The second night I tried him with water instead; he didn't want it and went back to sleep fairly quickly afterwards. On the third night he didn't wake.

If he had woken on nights 3, 4, 5 I think I'd have offered water not milk.

I carried on with a 10.30 feed until he was about 5 months old (I was too scared of him waking up if I didn't), but I know lots of people in RL who stooped that one at about 4 months.

Dropped ds 2am ish feed at 12 weeks too.

Ok, he woke at 3.10am last night - I let him cry for about 10 mins then went in and tried cuddling him first, then put him back for another 5 mins, then offered water and he didn't want it - then offered milk and didn't want that either! He then continued to cry for what seemed like ages before going back to sleep. I think the whole ordeal lasted about an hour and I felt horrible! I really think he's ready to drop it and is now waking out of habit. Is control crying the only answer here?

See what happens tonight. It might take a few nights to break the habit.
Did he drink more at his 6am feed as a result?
Would he take a dummy - might help him back to sleep? But you might not want to go down that route.

Good luck!

Ds cried the first two nights of stopping his feed but then slept through.

Good Luck

He eventually went back to sleep around 4 and then woke around 7.15am! Yes needless to say, he was hungry at that feed.

I don't really want to go down the dummy route. I just took it away from him last week as he kept waking every hour looking for it! Things have got better since it's been gone so don't think I'll try that (..at the moment!)