My baby will absolutely not, no matter what, touch her second bottle of the day milk less than 5.5hrs after the first.

[naughtynancy]

I am at a loss - that's an awfully long time isn't it!

DS was like clockwork: a bottle every 4hrs and skipped one at night.

DD is a pain in the bum. She has one about at 9am and then turns her nose up until about 2.30pm. Totally and utterly disinterested. Pushes it out with her tongue and turns her head away.

She will then have her bottle and then another one at 6pmish. Again at midnight and 4am.

Roughly the amounts are as follows:

9am - 7oz
2.30pm - 7oz
6pm - 7oz
Midnight - 4oz
4am - 5oz

She is 18wks old and weighs 12.5lbs.

She is all over the shop! It is driving my OCD CRAZY!!!

There is a 6hr gap between bottles 4 and 5 but not so concerned about this as she is up in bed at 7pm. It's the daytime gap when she is awake I just can't accept!!!

Do you wake her up at midnight? If so I wouldn't bother as she isn't taking much anyway. The amounts and frequency look fine to me otherwise.

I think you need to just feed her when she wants feeding. Neither of mine would ever take their bottles when I wanted. Its girls probably!

Brettgirl do you genuinely believe that certain babies won't feed when you want them to based on their gender?

Well all babies are different and you knew you weren't going to get a carbon copy of DS .

The advice on feeding, whether its ff or bf is to feed on demand. So as long as that's what you are doing and everything else is ok I'd just go with the flow. Everything will probably change again in a couple of weeks anyway

I would try and increase the midnight feed and drop the 4am feed - if she has less in the early morning she might have more at 'lunchtime'.

I don't know much mind :)

She looks to be having enough to me. Feed on demand is best and it looks like your DD knows that.

I don't wake her for the midnight one, she wakes herself.

I do try and get as much in her as possible but once she is fast asleep that is it! There is no getting any more in.

I had "no more than 4hrs between feeds" drummed into me by mws and hvs with ds so just a bit thrown I guess!!

It was tongue in cheek omg!!!

Op I think the issue for me would be the 2 feeds at night not the day frequency as if she only had one night feed then the day frequency would be better. It's a hard one to change if she's waking for it though. The only thing is that it isn't that weaning isn't that far off? And hopefully dh is doing one of them?

Yes DH does one thank goodness! You are right that if she drank more in the day then she'd likely drop one of the night bottles.

Yy to the weaning. I think it's the only thing that's going to fix this. She just has a total lack of interest in milk!

Have you tried moving it forwards by just 5 or 10 minutes a day? She also sounds like she may be confusing day and night a little, is she going outside every day?

Have you tried things that might wear her out and make her more hungry in the morning like swimming?