Baby over night feeding

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Hello mums!
im a FTM mum so learning here!
my babies (twins) are 11 weeks old
for the last two weeks they have been doing much longer stretches during the night and some nights have slept through to 6am!
What I’m asking is, how do I determine my baby has woken up to feed or just woken up and needs re settling?
Last night my girl woke up slightly crying (4 hours after her last feed) so I gave her cuddles & her dummy. She took the dummy, each time it fell out she did cry so I put it back. Eventually after 30mins she fell back to sleep and slept for another 2 hours. All day Ive been thinking maybe she actually woke up hungry and I starved her 😅
She fell back to sleep as I ended up co sleeping then and she always sleeps better next to me
So if one of them does the same tonight should I offer a feed if they wake up after 4 hours? As they’ve slept through 10 to 6 before, are they just waking to resettle?

Congratulations on your twins. Are they breastfed, bottle fed or a bit of both? It only matters because emptying your breasts overnight is important for supply, so if you are wanting to breastfeed, you may want to give a feed over night if they wake. If not, I would say there are no clear cut rules and some nights may be different to others. You are different levels of hungry from day to day and so are babies. There is no harm in trying to settle them without a feed as they will wake up again if they are really hungry. Equally there is no harm in trying a paced feed and they won't take much if they are not hungry and will go back to sleep. So long as they are growing you are getting it right.

If bottle feeding they can do 8 hours at 11 weeks. My DS1 was doing this by 8/9 weeks. HV’s advice was not to offer a bottle in the middle of the night but to rock and use the dummy and offer water on warm nights, but try to stretch the nights out. It worked very well with DS1. He settled quite quickly and would sleep for mother 90 minutes to 2 hours.

It did not work at all well with DS2, but he had a cold at 6/7 weeks and slept badly. He was over 4 months before I could get him through the night without a feed.

General advice is not to night wean before one year old, so if they don't settle almost immediately with a cuddle then I'd feed.

At that age, they always need feeding, so feed them.

My bottle fed baby refused the bottle or drank only a tiny bit eventually and would settle back to sleep just with cuddles and rocking. That wasn’t until 9/10 months.