Sleeping and feeding at night.

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I have a 12 week old DS who goes to bed at 7, we dream feed him at 10.30 and when he wakes in the morning is not very interested in his bottle for at least an hour. At about 3.30 am he stirs and gets very restless. I have not been feeding him since introducing the dream feed but every half hour or so I have to put his dummy in. He can't seem to self settle at this time of night.

I used to not give a dream feed and he woke between 3 and 4 am for a small feed and went straight back to sleep. I tried not giving him the feed once and kept settling him and he slept through so I dropped the night feed. I thought if I introduced a dream feed he would not be as restless. I got more sleep doing night feed that I am getting now as i have to make myself stay up to give a dream feed and then he is awake on and off from middle of night.

Have any any advice as to why he is so restless when he is obviously not hungry, should I drop the dream feed and go back to mid night feed?

Sorry posted with out finishing...

I also introduced a dream feed as I was concerned he was not getting any where near the recommended milk allowance on four feeds a day. He has silent reflux and I struggle to get milk in him during the day.

Is he restless because he does need the milk, he is never a big eater so I feel as though I need to remind him to eat unless he is starving.

Thanks

CC

He is 14 weeks!

Is he on medication for the reflux? Reflux is a big cause of restless sleep.

If his milk intake is low during the day, then I would feed him at night. My son (who has reflux and a feeding aversion) is less resistant in the night so we have to take our chances where they present themselves!

Is he putting on weight OK?

I think it's common for reflux babies to not want to drink in the morning, as they have been lying down all night (hopefully). I certainly find this feed the most challenging of the day, as does my friend whose little girl has very severe reflux too.

Being a numpty I never put it together with the reflux. He is on medication and he feeds best in the night too. I didn't give him a dream feed last night, he woke at 5 and I gave him an extra feed. This seemed to have an impact on his feeding in the morning though and he only had 6oz till 5pm where he then downed 7oz!