4 month old waking very hungry at night !

[EmmaCx]

Hi, my 4+ month old baby boy is a very happy healthy baby boy, loves his milk and also recently his solids! He is finishing his 7/80Z bottles, and would have one about 7:45pm before I put him down at 8pm after his routine bath every night. He then would wake at 1/2 which is brilliant but then again at 4 and 6/7. I’ve tried to settle him without bottle at these times as I’m worried it’s habit to expect the bottle, but he really cries and I can hear his tummy rumbling quite a bit! He falls asleep and doesn’t finish bottles but when I set him back in he starts crying again, I’ve set him in with me which seems to settle him but don’t want to start that now! Wondering if the miliupa bedtime banana/ porridge would help before bed with a bottle? I am aware of the 4 month sleep regression too☹️ Any advice on getting baby to sleep through night is greatly appreciated! 😊 xx

@EmmaCx , are all your friends who tell you this formula feeding too? I breastfed and my babies always woke numerous times a night at that age, twice is nothing!!! But i know generally formula fed babies sleep way longer than formula fed babies.

*than breastfed babies as they are so full.

@EmmaCx

Thanks all for reassuring me, *@WaterIsBest he would have 5-6 7ounce bottles a day (every 3-4 hours). I put baby to bed at 8 and then I would go up to bed about 10, I think I will give a dream feed like @Si1ver* suggests, however I tried this once before and he wouldn’t suck the bottle as he was fast asleep lol. I’ll try again and see if this can get him through, last night was a tough night as he woke at 12, 1:30, 2:45, 4:30 and 6.00. I think I will drop the solids as suggested as this could be the cause, or else teething as he always has his wee hands in his mouth and his clothes are soaked with dribble lol. I only was giving him a small amount of very puréed baby porridge at lunch time with his bottle but think I will now leave this out. Xx

These all sound like sleep regression wake ups, 1:15-1:30 is their night time sleep cycle at that transition point so it’s totally normal.

Please stop talking to your friends about it, I have no fucking idea why but the two things everyone asked me when I had DS1 was ‘is he a good baby?’ and ‘how does he sleep?’ its soul destroying when you’ve woken up for the umpteenth time and someone pipes in who had a baby a decade or two ago and has actually forgotten the finer details.

Your baby is normal, we didn’t stop night feeds until 8 months ish, and he was eating loads and still having loads of milk in the day.

Glad you’ve found PPs advice here useful 😍

@Drainedagain2 yes, friends formula feed, however one friend told me once her baby was sleeping right through and then when I talked to her again she said he wasn’t! I really think some mums just say this as if it’s a competition on who has the better baby which is ridiculous. I really wish I had of been able to breastfed, it would have been so amazing! Unfortunately due to being put on medication after birth due to blood clots I was advised against it in case medication passed through milk to baby :(

@FTEngineerM Thank you😊❤️ Xx

one friend told me once her baby was sleeping right through and then when I talked to her again she said he wasn’t!

Yeah, or maybe they had one long sleep one night. Everything changes so quickly, the good and the bad 😂

When our DS stayed with mil we called in the morning and on the phone she said ‘he slept all night in his cot, no wake ups’ THEN when we actually went down to pick him up it turned into ‘oh, well we had to pop the dummy back in twice and once he was a bit cold but other than that he slept through’ 🤷🏽‍♀️

My child slept through from about 6 months and that was the earliest out of all my friends. Don’t feed solids until 6 months! Good luck

I have three kids… they slept through the night at 3.5 (years), 15 months and we’re still waiting for number 3 to sleep through at 2.5 years! Now I’m not telling you as something to aspire to , but 4 months is still so so little. Feed him and cuddle him and give yourself a break.

@EmmaCx

Thanks all for reassuring me, *@WaterIsBest he would have 5-6 7ounce bottles a day (every 3-4 hours). I put baby to bed at 8 and then I would go up to bed about 10, I think I will give a dream feed like @Si1ver* suggests, however I tried this once before and he wouldn’t suck the bottle as he was fast asleep lol. I’ll try again and see if this can get him through, last night was a tough night as he woke at 12, 1:30, 2:45, 4:30 and 6.00. I think I will drop the solids as suggested as this could be the cause, or else teething as he always has his wee hands in his mouth and his clothes are soaked with dribble lol. I only was giving him a small amount of very puréed baby porridge at lunch time with his bottle but think I will now leave this out. Xx

Baby is supposed to have all sleeps in the same room as you until at least 6 months.