Filling him with milk during the day

[moosh]

Ds is 15 weeks old and is drinking the right amount of milk for his weight. However he is still waking, not neccessarily hungry, now people keep saying to me "Fill him up during the day and I bet he will sleep through". I will list what he has and when he has it and can somebody tell me if I could do it any differently to get him to sleep past the 4am slot.
6am-7ozs milk
10am-6oz
2pm-5oz
6pm-7oz
10pm-5oz
and I make up at bottle at 1oz milk 3oz water if he needs it for the 4 am although I have never had to use it, hence why I think it is habit waking. Have I staggered the amounts right or can someone tell me a different way of doing it. Much appreciated.

Hi Moosh - according to Gina Ford, sometimes babies wake not for feeds but because they sleep too much during the day. She recommends that you wake them time to time. Check out her book, you've probably heard of it already 'The New Contented Little Baby Book'.

However, if you don't want to do that (and let's face it, why wake them when they're sleeping and you're having a rest!!), I told a friend to place a piece of clothing that she had worn near the baby so that it tricked them into thinking she was nearby. It worked a treat, to the point where her DD is still using it at 15 mths!

Good Luck!

P.S. -does she have wind?

The timings look right to me, although I too am unfamiliar with bottle feeding. What do you do with him when he wakes at 4am. It is quite normal for him still to be waking at this age I think. My DS didn't sleep through till 4.5mths and that is pretty good for breastfed. Have you tried just giving him a little milk at 4 maybe an ounce or two and then getting him back to sleep but waking him up at 7 or 7:30? How are his daytime naps? Does he have half an hour or 45mins morning and 2 hours afternoon?

If I understood correctly, moosh was saying that he doesn't need a feed when he wakes at 4am - I think in that case, the waking is not hunger and changing his daytime feeds won't make any difference. Moosh, what happens when he wakes? How does he get back to sleep?

IIRC - doesn't GF recommend keeping them up 45mins or so at the 10pm feed?

Thanks everyone.He is kept up after his 10pm feed. Elliot is right he is not hungry when he wakes he has a little comfort blanket that I place near his cheek to get him back to sleep then I remove it once he has fallen asleep. I pop his dummy in to try and get him back to sleep but he usually spits it out then seems to want it again. This can go on from 10mins which is brill or one hour to settle him. But he isn't hungry because he will cry for a bottle and I know his hungry cry. I have joined in on the sleeping thread section. Days can vary sometimes, he will always sleep 30-40 mins in the morning and in the afternoon he may have just an hour or sometimes he may have 2hours off on and off sleep (tends to wake after 40mins and sometimes he may go back to sleep and others he may not). He gets grumpy always around 4p.m. so I let him have about 15mins waking him after that. Then settle him pretty quickly at 7-7.30p.m. If you guys think that I have staggered the bottles well I will stick to what I am doing and hope this phase will go over the next few weeks/months.