Night feeding my 11 week old

[mum2b56]

My son is 11 weeks old, 6 corrected. He's still waking up every 2 hours during the night for food but when I feed him he's only drinking half his bottle or less, hence him waking up every 2 hours. He is on 120ml bottles but will only eat about 2 full ones in a 24 hour period and the rest of the time he doesn't finish them. Is there anything I can do to help him sleep longer during the night?

This is totally normal I'm afraid - he's still very little! Babies are designed to wake up throughout the night, it's actually safer for them than sleeping deeply and trying to give me milk won't help. I don't know much about ff I'm afraid but babies only have tiny stomachs to start with so generally prefer to eat little and often. Just fed whenever he wants it, I know it's knackering but it won't last forever!

give more* milk

My DD did this. She was a little but often milk drinker (FF). When we brought her home she developed mild jaundice so we were advised to set an alarm to make sure we fed her every 2 hours to flush the jaundice out. However, she'd always be up for a feed before the 2 hours were up. She did started doing longer stretches, I'd say from about 12-16 weeks onwards though. She never finished a bottle, even in the day, unless she was visibly having a growth spurt.

She is now 3.5, has about 100ml of milk with dinner, and even then doesn't finish it. She's just never been a milk monster.

What I found, in hindsight, was that I became a little concerned by how much the box or others said she should be drinking. So I became a little stressed about it, although id always feed on demand until she was fully weaned. I think with FF it's easy to get sucked into how much we think they should be having as opposed to concentrating wholly on hunger cues.

Is he having milk every 2 hours in the day as well?

@user1493413286 no he normally goes longer in the day

With my premature baby she started going 3 hours in the day and 2 hours at night and the neo natal nurse advised feeding her every 2 hours in the day to see if she would switch back around and it did work so after a couple of days she was going 3 hours at night. My baby was that much smaller as well so fed more often in the night for longer because her tummy was smaller .