My baby is 11 weeks old and taking 5-6 bottles a day between 5-6oz per feed. We have recently started a routine of bath/bottle/bed which roughly consists of -
bath - 7:30pm
bottle - 8:15pm
bed & asleep by 9:30pm
Usually If left to wake naturally baby would wake up around 2am for a feed, and again approx 6:30am. However in addition to this BBB routine, we have recently started bringing her 2am feed earlier to around midnight! (I don’t know if you would call this a dream feed as it is basically shifting her 2am feed earlier rather than “topping her up”) Anyway, this has worked well as baby has been sleeping from about 1230am to 630am and then after 630am feed will fall straight back asleep until 9/10am.
We haven’t been doing it long but I want to make sure I am not waking my baby unnecessarily and creating a habit when it is not needed, so my question is if I am waking baby at midnight to bring the 2am feed earlier how will I know if she would have ordinarily dropped the 2am feed?
With how sleepy baby is during the midnight and 630am feed I am hoping that her biggest stretch of sleep after the midnight feed will start to increase (e.g midnight-9am) and at that point i can then look to drop the midnight feed(aka 2am feed) which I assume would bring her morning wake up time a bit earlier.
Am I on the right track with this? Any advice please?