Ebf hungry baby 24wks

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Ds is 24wk and is ebf. He has for the past few weeks reverted to waking 2-3 times a night for feeds. Usually around 11 and then either once again at about 3,30, or sometimes twice at 2 ish and 5ish.

At first I thought perhaps it was more comfort suckling but recently my dm have him 7oz in a bottle at the 11pm wake while we went to the cinema, and he woke again at 3 for a decent feed. His bedtime is about 7.30, after a feed.

He eats regulary in the day, roughly 3 hourly, sometimes 4. If we are in a busy place I have to encourage him to eat for longer though as he's easily distracted.

I just wondered if anyone can suggest how I can satisfy him better to try and reduce the night wakes? I'm just about to start weaning but will be doing baby led so know I can't rely in solids to satisfy him for a while.

Does 'tanking up' in the day really work?

Starting solids does NOT mean that you will automatically get more sleep. Also at 24 weeks, a baby's main calorie source is supposed to be milk anyway.

OP It seems like you have a pretty good idea of what you are doing, so ignore those who are saying that BLW is 'starving' your baby. Part of the idea of BLW is that when the child is ready and able to digest foods they are also able to pick them up, put them in their mouth, chew them and swallow them. On that principle, we did start BLW at around 24 weeks and DD was eating food right away, so she must have been ready.

IME solids make little difference to night wakings. It can be developmental, teething, slight sniffles, anything really. I struggled with it for a while and then we decided to have DD in bed from her first waking, which worked much better. She has had periods of sleeping through, then wakes again. She's now 10 /12 months, so eats quite a lot of solids and how much she has been eating has no correlation to her waking or sleeping patterns, so therefore she must be waking for another reason.

I think the easiest thing would be to find a way to cope with the wakings (bed sharing, naps in the day?) rather than trying to work out ways of getting your baby to sleep through.