Hi all,
First time mum to a baby girl, she’s 15 weeks tomorrow and wanted some advice on feeding/ dream feeds/ sleeping etc.
She has naturally fallen into a pattern of eating 4 times during the day - times are not exact- and I’m not too bothered about being too regimented or set to a concrete routine, as long as they are roughly morning/ late morning, afternoon, early evening (7/11/3/7) and I know she’s getting what she needs.
Each one of the 4 bottles (she’s formula fed) is 210ml and she’ll pretty much finish each one on a good day with a little left in the base.
my question is…from 4 months, the rough feeding guide for a baby is 5 x 210ml, so the way she likes to feed, always leaves us with the 5th bottle as a night feed.
She usually goes down really well between 7/7:30pm which is fab, and will sleep any time until 3/4, sometimes pushing 5pm and she is hungry. I can’t rock her to sleep, she wants her milk.
So that leaves us with the right number of feeds over 24 hours (5) but am I ever going to be able to have her go without waking up to be fed in the early hours?
I thought about increasing the amounts of each bottle in the daytime but that’s a hell of a lot of milk to get down in 4 feeds and I just think she’d vomit it back up. I can’t really squeeze in a 5th daytime feed and she will not eat just for the sake of it, only when hungry- which is her 4 times a day and once at some point overnight.
She has very occasionally slept through a little later til morning without the night feed but we’re talking like 3 times 🤣
I’m not expecting miracles from her, she’s doing really well, and we’re not killing ourselves being rigid about an exact routine, if we have to carry on as we are until weaning then fine, I just wondered other people’s advice?
Thanks as always