has anyone given their baby extra hungry formula for their last feed?

[Clarabumps]

i saw this on bringing up baby- one of the dr spock mothers used it to help her baby sleep through the night. was reluctant to try it without advice..my son sleeps thro till 4 then wakes to take half an oz of formula. its driving me crazy... i was going to ask my health visitor however they never tell you to change anything.
Any advice welcome

Does he just need a dummy? Doesn't sound like he's hungry tbh....how old is he?

What I did with both of mine was to give them their usual 4pm feed (mine got themselves into a 4 hour routine.) Then I would amuse them for the extra hour between 8 and 9pm then give an extra ounce or so at 9pm for bed. Worked for us and they were well rested for the next day. I would say it also depends on what brand of formula you are using. SMA (UGH) was useless. Farleys hungry baby filled them up alot better with less puke.

Doesn't work - splitting the feed works far better IME.

how old is your son?

if he is not ready to sleep through, he won;t sleep through

also, hungry baby milk can give a happy settled baby a tummy ache, so not always worth it

Makes no difference at all apart from piebald poo and you're risking bellyache.

it will not make any difference. Its more the amount the have in a whole 24 hours. SO maybe try giving an extra ounce in his feeds from lunchtime onwards. If he wants it he will take it, but dont force it on him.

But really he wont sleep through until he is ready.

ditto fiofio, makes no difference at all.

I use SMA White with no difference (but a bit less vom).

aha- thanks for the advice.
have tried staggering his feeds..he can sleep from 7pm till 3am fine but trying to get him to do that at the "convenient" time seems like the holy grail. i was following the 4 hourly feed thing and trying the Clb type thing of waking him up at 11 to feed him but he was still waking up at 3am/4am. he's 16 weeks now and i don't really want to start weaning him just yet. i've also tried keeping him up in the evening(not forcing him awake- don't mistake) but if he's woke up again i've just not tried to put him back down. Then i was putting him down at 10 ish..after him being up for a few hours. this seemed to work a bit better..i'm just knackered. he has a dummy but he just seems to have fallen into the habit. i'm doing this as a single parent(my partner and i have just got together- not my sons dad) and i just feel like i haven't slept in ten million years. i'm trying not to force some kind of scary routine on him and i haven't been chopping and changing every day...i was just wondering if anyone had any tips? added into all this is the massive guilt i feel about wanting a decent few hours sleep. the guilt never stops eh? they don't tell you that in the manual!!
cheers x

Sorry Clarabumps but I am useless very little advice to give

My DS is 17 weeks and has started waking again in the night. I found a couple of little spoons of baby rice was just enough to get him through til 6am when I go to work anyway.
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