Giving BM bottle at bedtime to avoid cluster feeding?!?!

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Has any EBF moms pumped during the day and give there baby a bottle of it for the bedtime feed mine cluster feeds and by cluster feed I mean eating from 7 to 11 straight not every hour and because the feedings are so close together I don't have time to re fill and she spends most of that time just sucking and getting angry and I feel that if I pumped so that I'm not losing my supply and give her a straight bottle she would go to bed at what I want her new bed time to be (8 o'clock ) daughters almost 5 months

The thing is with cluster feeding, it's driven by the need for more sustinence, often caused by a growth spurt. So doing anything other than feeding when baby wants could lead to them not getting the sustinence they need.

I think when you ebf, there's this idea that if you just give a bottle they will sleep better. It's not necessarily true.

Have you tried feeding your lo lying on a bed in a quiet room with dimed lights? That helped me when dd was about that age encourage her gently to sleep when I wanted her to. Also I got to relax and read a book, and try not to worry about how much I was feeding.

Ya I take my computer with me when I feed her in her room at night I'm not so much worried that she cluster feeds at night it's just that imtrying to get her on a new bed time and she still wants to cluster feed late so the bedtimes pointless right now when she's up till 11 cluster feeding ugggh

Hi my lo also cluster fed really badly all I can say is go with it I gave a bottle and she drank and drank and vomited it all back I found no benefits from it all I can say is the stage soon passes as some one said its a growth spurt and i gave a dummy which she spat out constantly at first but we were desperate as other two children never had one. hang in there your doing a fab job x

How old is your baby? The thing about cluster feeding is that it is really important on the supply and demand basis. You said you don't have time to fill up but breasts are never really empty they may feel less heavy but you are continually producing milk.
It doesn't last long at it will pass. If you can stick with it, it will help your supply in the long run.

I know it's not a growth spurt because it's like this every night since I brought her home and I don't mind the cluster feeding it's just that I want her to start cluster feeding at like 6 and be done around 8 instead of starting at 8 and done at 11 and I feel that if I pumped out Like 4 or6 oz during the day and gave it to her before bed she wouldn't cluster feed because in that like 2 or 3 hour cluster feed she spends most of it sucking to get milk not suckling sucking hard to try and get it to come down and she still wakes up every 2 hours so I still get those supply feedings at night or even if I gave her a bottl at 8 and put her to bed then after she's in bed I pump till I get the same amount that I gave her ??

The thing about pumping is that it's not as efficient as sucking and tbh I think you would struggle to get the same amount she would take.
How old is she? She still sounds quite little and it could be pointless trying to get her down at 8 just now that is another thing that just comes with time.

I get 4 oz when I pump both boobs

I don't expect her to sleep through the night and the older she gets the harder it's going to be to get her on a schedule and the happier she will be she's been good with her nap schedule so far it's only been 2 days but I can tell a difference already babies like structure and so do I I'm just having problems with bedtime since I moved it like 3 hours forward so I'm going to make wake up time earlier and hopefully that will make the diff

You haven't said how old she is so I'm assuming she is pretty young. People here are speaking from experience I have bf 3 babies and know that to suddenly change a sleep time by 3 hours is unlikely to happen overnight. If you want to give the bottle give the bottle but people here have told you why it's not the best idea.
Yes babies and children like structure but babies are also very instinctive and know what they need to do. They can't tell the time and they have in built abilities to know how to feed and get what they need.

If you're dead set on getting you lo to sleep at a certain time, I've heard of it being done by moving bedtime earlier by 15 mins, waiting for the baby to adapt, then moving it another 15 mins earlier until the baby goes down at the time you want. But if your lo wants to cluster feed I do not think this will work, as them will be hungry and need to feed.

As others have said, try a bottle if you think it will help, no harm in trying it, but it might make your milk supply dwindle a bit, which will mean more cluster feeding to get it back up again. I would personally just ride it out. The cluster feeding won't go on forever. Just get yourself set up with a book/tv/mn and have a lovely evening whilst feeding (if you have a partner, demand they make you cups of tea and do the cooking).

You could try offering extra feeds during the daytime to fill your lo up more, and see if that reduces the evening feeding. You could also get up earlier in the morning with your lo, which should help them go to sleep earlier.

She's almost 5 months and ya I'm going to move her awake time earlier and see if that helps last night wasn't so bad the first night she was screaming and eating the whole time then last time she ate and fell asleep but woke up every 20 mins so hopefully tonight it will be spread out more and more we will see how it goes