Hi mums
I’ve posted a few times - I’m a FTM and things didn’t start smoothly for us so I was quite nervous in the first couple of months. I have a nearly 15 week old DS and we’ve had some issues with feeding recently. He started screaming at the bottle, or when placed in his feeding position (I express and he’s bottle fed breast milk). I think we managed to get to the bottom of it, turned out he had TT and also silent reflux which we are managing now so feedings are significantly better (and faster!) with the odd crying episode here and there.
Anyways, the one thing I can’t get to the bottom of is night feeding...he dropped one of his feeds so now only wakes up once. (Dinner at 7, wakes up anytime between 2-4, up for the day at 7). However, the last couple of weeks night time feeds are a nightmare. They take forever, he’s fussing and shaking his head and often doesn’t finish the bottle either. He doesn’t look particularly hungry but he wakes and I’m not sure if he can go all night without eating at all at this stage (also not sure if he would go down to sleep without feeding despite how difficult it is..). He is losing his hunger signs so sometimes it’s really hard to tell whether he’s really hungry or not. He’s also quite fussy with his breakfast and doesn’t finish a bottle but the rest of the day seems to be fine. The main issue really is night times...
Anyone experienced anything similar? Shall I try to let him go through the night without feeding..? He has 6oz bottles every 3 hours during the day and around 4oz during the night on average (but that’s after A LOT of persuasion haha) I’m starting to find the constant nighttime battles exhausting 