Night Feeds - My 7 mth DS seems genuinely hungry but is this right?

[peckhammummy]

My 7 month old DS typical 24 hours is:

7.00 - 6oz formula
7.30 / 8.00 am Porridge or Weetabix mixed with a good amount of formula
10.30/11.00 - 6oz formula,
11.30 / 12.00 - lunch e.g. baked potato and cheese or broccoli in cheese sauce plus some stewed apple/ yoghurt
2.30 - 6 oz formula
5.00 - tea mashed sweet potato plus yoghurt
6.00 - 6 oz formula

Any time between 10.00 pm and 2 am - 6 oz formula
Any time between 3 pm and 5 pm - 6 oz formula

When he wakes up in the night he feeds and goes straight back to sleep until 7.00. We've tried to settle him to sleep without feeding him and giving him water but he goes bananas. He does seem genuinely hungry.
He has been teething since December. He has his two bottom teeth through and now has one top tooth pushing through. He was also ill for a week a couple of weeks ago and didn't eat much.
It somehow seems the easiest thing to keep feeding him but am I creating problems for myself?

Maybe he is catching up a bit after being ill?

My DS has been ill recently and is now an eating machine for the moment!

He started sleeping through more often than not around 10 months I think, this goes out the window when teething/ill though. I bf him so always fed back to sleep out of laziness !

DS had feeds at 1800, 2200, 0200 and 0600 until he was about 13 months old. Since then (he's now just over 14 months), he's dropped the 0200 and 0600 and for the past week has dropped the 2200 one as well. I haven't done anything different, he's just now able to sleep through, whereas before he wasn't.

I don't think that you're creating any problems at all, if your baby is hungry then feed him! I think it's like all things, some babies stop feeding at night sooner than others, just the same way that they all do things at different ages - smiling, crawling, laughing, standing, walking etc.

That sounds encouraging. I long for the time when he sleeps through. I think you are absolutely right cairnterrier: they do all do things at different times. DS1 slept at 3 months, DS2 at 5 months and DS3 is 7 months and has yet to sleep through and I didn't do anything particularly different with any of them. Anyway..I should be off to bed so that I can rack up some hours.

You could try giving him a bit more protein at tea time to keep him feeling full for longer.