Baby not hungry in the morning?

[olivia40404]

Mainly asking out of interest to see if anyone else has experienced the same thing. My daughter is now 4.5 months old and for the past month or so, she just isn’t hungry when she wakes up (bedtime is around 8-8:30pm, wake up time is usually around 6:45/7am).

I have tried getting her to go through the night without a night feed - she can do it, she’s just very unsettled all night. But it doesn’t make a difference if I don’t give her a bottle, she’s still not hungry til about 8:30am.

At the moment she’s having a night feed somewhere around 2-3am. Then she is stirring and unsettled from about 5:30am.

Does anyone else have a baby like this? I wouldn’t mind but it sometimes throws her nap schedule off - by the time she has a feed at 8:30, she’s tired by 9am. If she has an hour nap, she then wakes up 2 hours before she’s due a bottle and so on, so it ruins the wake-feed-play-sleep. Maybe we just need to ignore any kind of routine and go with what she’s happy with? Babies are weird.

Yes, definitely ignore the routine. I think the one you are following us the Baby Whisperer. It's not evidence based and is actually just one woman's opinion.

I'm guessing your DD hadn't read the book and it sounds as though she's come up with rather a nice doubt one all of her own

Same situation as you, about to turn 5 months. We're actually battling with bottle aversion at times but we definitely have less success with feeds in a morning.
Am completely led by him as he's very strong willed, so sometimes he'll have milk shortly after a nap, and sometimes it'll be before a nap. He catnaps 30 minutes at a time so no chance establishing a routine just yet xx

@JiltedJohnsJulie - Thank you for that. I ignored it today and she woke up, had a bottle an hour later, then had a really good 1.5 hour nap. And she seemed pretty happy for it too! Think I just need to follow her lead rather than trying to set a pattern for her.

@Twiglet2353 - Babies hey! They never make it easy! I think I will just let her lead me like you do with your baby. You read so much about how you should put them in a routine but if they don’t want to fit into a routine, they just won’t!

Best thing you can do is to follow the baby’s lead. They’re all different and they will fall into their own patterns, which will change over time. Sounds like you’re doing a good job being attuned to the fact your baby needed something different :)