Cluster feeding

[kellieb7]

Does the cluster feeding in the evening tend to stop? I would love to get my DD into a bedtime routine but she still wants to cluster feed until after 11pm.

How old is she? It usually stops by around 3 or 4 months, sometimes earlier, but sometimes later.

Kellymom has some info.

Also babies usually naturally develop an earlier bedtime (they start wanting to go to bed earlier) around 3 or 4 months. It happens as their biologicsl clocks mature.

She is 12 weeks (although she was 6 weeks prem). Thanks for the link, I will have a look now x

My little one went on evening cluster feeding well into her 7th month. It was 9 or 10 months before I got her to sleep at 7pm!

My little one went on evening cluster feeding well into her 7th month. It was 9 or 10 months before I got her to sleep at 7pm!

However both my babies have gone to a 7pm bedtime very early and I've never cluster fed all evening.......

Both DS and DD fed and then slept (roughly 3 hourly) through the day and evening until approx 4 weeks with DD (can't remember with DS and he was premature anyway so a little weird....) when she started going to bed by 7 and having to be woken for a feed at about 10:30 (DH with EBM bottle)

She is now almost 20 weeks and has been sleeping the evening since then......in fact, have just remembered that DS (6 weeks premature) slept the evening from about 7/8 weeks (it was just as my sister arrived - I remember now)

Anyway - just thought I'd give another way it can go. Maybe your baby will grow out of it much faster than some of those mentioned above so I guess there's no magic answer

NB: lots of my friends babies were the same......I can barely think/remember anyone mentioning this cluster feeding all evening thing

I think the way the biological clock works is according to due dates - so I'd probably not expect to see much of a development of early bedtimes before 3 months adjusted (although you may be lucky). Apparently babies' body clocks don't fully synchronise with the 24 hour day until they're about 10 months old so it does take some longer.

My DS didn't really cluster feed, but it was about 3.5 months before he could be persuaded to go to bed before 8 or 9pm.

I know how you feel. Yes it does end. I was the same thinking will it ever end and it did when DD was just over 4 months. After that her bedtime gradually came forward. I brought it forward by hour every few days. We are now at 8pm. Hang in there I know it feels like it's going on forever but it will end eventually.