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hayesgirl · 06/11/2011 19:56

my little boy is 11 weeks old. I breastfed solely until 5 weeks but for reasons I won't go into here I slowly started introducing formula and now he is almost completely bottle fed. I have always fed on demand and he usually varies between 2 and 3 hours between feeds. Last week or so though he has gone up to 4 hours between feeds. He will usually take 5-6oz each feed. He grew out of his Moses basket by 6 weeks and so is in his own cot now. Over the last week he has gone to sleep slightly earlier every day and now goes to bed about half 7 - 8. He has slept from 10 - 5am every night prior to this with a last feed about half 8. Now however he has started waking at 2am as well - not entirely surprising given the time he is going to sleep so I started dream feeding at about 11 thinking this would help cut out the 2am feed. Despite taking almost 5oz he still wakes at 2am and has another 3 or 4 oz then another 4 oz at 5am! I dont know if it's just a growth spurt or what - anyone else had a similar experience and did it sort itself out or did you do something to sort it?

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Timeoutofmind · 06/11/2011 20:48

They still need feeding regularly at that age and there is a big growth spurt at about 12wks.

My DD used to go.to bed about 7pm. I used to dream feed at 10pm then my DD would wake for feeds about 1am and 4am then about 7am for the day. She did cut out her 1am feed at about 3mo then the 4am feed got later and later until she slept through. But I still did dream feed until 4mo.

What helped for me was offering her a dummy because sometimes she was just waking for a comfort suck.

hayesgirl · 06/11/2011 22:00

Thanks. This does sound like my little one! I will try the dummy

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