Feeding just before bed - does everyone do this??

[MoragG]

DD is 13 weeks old, and generally goes at least 4 hours between feeds. This means that if she feeds at say 5pm she is not really ready for anything more by the time she needs to go to bed (I am formula feeding). She generally is in bed by 7pm, and I am reluctant to keep her up any longer, as she is definitely ready for bed by then (she gets increasingly grumpy from late afternoon onwards). However, it seems wrong to put her into bed without feeding her! Does anyone else put their DC to bed without giving them a feed just before hand? Should I be making the late afternoon feed smaller and then giving her the rest just before bed? I'm a bit concerned that I'm doing something wrong here!

if it works for you both then carry on!

can you re-jig the daytime feeds so that the last feed ends up before bed? When my lo's still had a feed in the night I would give a top up feed around 7/7.30am to get the daytime feeds back on track.

Morag most of my friends who are FF split the last feed of the day, so say she has 5oz per feed, they do 2.5oz at 5 and then the rest at 7 - might work?

Though if the current way is working for you guys I wouldn't change it

Did this till my dd was around 6 mo. She would usually feed around 3.00, another around 5.30 and then another one at around 7.00. She was happy, I was happy - nowt wrong with that! I was ebf till 4.5, then by six months she was mix fed, so the afternoon one was formula, and she still had a little bf at 5.30 an another around 7.00 and it still worked for us.

I too ff and my dd had bottle at 6 followed by bath and bed with no feed - worked for us. If it works do it!

Sorry, Morag - I misread. If she doesn't seem to want a feed when you put her to bed, then sounds fine to me. Lots of my friends did it your way round.