6 month old & night feeds

[Scabbyfingers]

DD is nearly 6 months old. She still wakes up 2-3 times a night for a feed. She is FF.

Is this normal? She doesn’t drink the whole bottle but usually drinks 90 - 150ml at night per feed.

I’ve tried dummies but she wants a feed. I’ve trued tiring her out but that doesn’t work. She’s never been a good sleeper.

Is this normal? I’m hoping once we start BLW she’ll sleep more at night. I’m going back to work when she’s 7 months old.

I don’t mind going in and giving her a cuddle etc to her back to sleep, I just feel like I’m over feeding her.

Perfectly normal - In my NCT group my DS was the only one night weaned by around 6 months, the rest were all still having bottles in the night. I was still up on cuddle duty though!

I wouldn't count on weaning to help straight away, I've seen on here lots of people saying it doesn't and I'd agree.

By that time it was sleepy feed when I went to bed and then nothing til 6 or hopefully later. But each kid is different. Why don’t you discuss this at baby clinic?

My LO was mix fed (though I tended to breast feed over night) so a little bit different but he was still up every two hours for a feed at 6 months. Weaning made no difference at all sadly! At 7.5 months DH started going initially to see if he could resettle him without a feed and this gradually stretched the length of time between feeds. At 11 months he’s now up once or twice. I think as your LO is still taking a reasonable amount they probably are actually hungry as opposed to just doing it for comfort?