9 week old waking every 2-3 hours at night

[YellowSun567]

My 9 week old is still waking every 2-3 hours to feed in the night. I feed expressed breast milk in the night (never been able to breastfeed him so use a combination of expressed and formula). I dress him in a vest, babygrow and 2 folded cellular blankets.
Should I feed him formula at night instead?
Are the clothes/ blankets I'm using ok?

That’s totally normal waking for a 9 week old.
I’m not sure on the clothing, mine is two years old now but if he doesn’t feel too hot or too cold I expect he’s fine. It depends on the temperature of your house.

That’s completely normal, your baby is very young, so of course they’re going to be waking up at those intervals.

I think that there’s just such a wide range of variance. My DD is 10 months now and I just looked back at my Huckleberry app for that point and she was usually doing a 5 hour stretch from about 10/11pm until 3/4am, would then breastfeed and after that do a 3 hour stretch until we started the day at 6/7am. While it’s normal I don’t think it’s inevitable - just for other views. When we moved over to formula gradually we did do her first feed of the night/last one before we went to sleep as a formula feed and then slowly introduced formula throughout the day, but the overnight feed was always a breastfeed - mostly because it was convenient but also because I felt at night she was just feeding for comfort and breast would give her the most comfort. She night weaned herself around 5 months which was when the last bf feed went and she was exclusively on formula. That’s not saying you need to swap to formula OP, I don’t think the wakings are necessarily that your DS is underfed - just for context what we did. And actually her sleep went to pot at 4 months with the regression and didn’t recover for months so introducing formula definitely didn’t improve her sleep!!

In terms of the temperature, like PP says it depends on the temperature of your house - do you have a way of measuring that? I really like sleeping bags rather than blankets - I can know what the tog rating is and also that she won’t kick them off on the night. Plus they come with a guide of what to dress baby in in them depending on the temperature of the room.

Really normal. My baby is 14mo and still sometimes has nights where she wakes every 2 to 3 hours.

A nine week old breadtfed baby should be feeding two to three hourly day and night! You have a text book baby there! One of my three did that and he was my best sleeper, I remember joking that he'd read the books on how to be a baby!

Even at nine months that sleep/feed cycle would be be fairly normal tbh.

The waking sounds normal.
Personally, I'd say that's a lot of clothing and blankets for the current weather, but if baby's back feels the right temperature, it's obviously right for your house.

That sounds like a lot of layers. Remember that folding a blanket doubles its tog rating. Obviously it does depend on where you are and the temperature in your house but DD was in a babygro (no vest) and a 1tog sleeping bag last night. It was about 20 degrees in our room.

Great thank you so much for all of your replies!

I'd have given anything for my baby to have done 2-3 hour stretches at that age lol. He's 7 months and still waking every 2-3 hours!