Do night feeds just drop or shift forward to morning?

[Rooandtwo]

Just that really. We are down to just one night feed around 1-2am. Assuming it goes if it’s own accord without any effort on our part, do babies just suddenly stop waking to request the last night feed or does it tend to gradually get later in the night until eventually it’s morning? I hope that makes sense.

No one?

Mine just stopped waking up.

freaked me out!

DS it pushed closer and closer to morning naturally and phased out. DD just stopped waking for it and dropped it. Both formula fed exactly the same.

Varies. One of mine it gradually got later until it was at about 5am, then hit and miss whether he'd go back to sleep, other he just dropped it.

My daughter used to feed at about 10.30pm, wake at 3am - pretty much on the dot - for a feed and then 6.30-7am.

She randomly dropped her 3am feed one night, but started waking at 5.45/6am for her morning feed.

This was at about 3 months old (yes, I'm very lucky!)

At about 8/9 months she dropped her 10.30 feed, so her last feed was 7.30pm and then she slept through until morning.

I have found with my kids that they would drop the midnight/1am feed (sleep through it) and then would have an adjustment where they would wake earlier than usual (5/6am) for a feed. My youngest is 8 months and has shifted that feed to what was her usual wake up time.

I bottled fed mine. I read that you could swap the night-feed bottle for cooled, boiled water. And that after two nights, babies stop waking up for the feed. I tried that with both my DC and it worked. The first night they gave me really weirded-out looks. The second night, they drank only a tiny bit. The third night, they slept through.

Same! Around 10w. I didn’t sleep all night thinking they’d wake up 😂

Mine just stopped waking but it didn’t happen all of a sudden, there were some nights she woke and others she didn’t. I bottle fed and it corresponded with an increase in the size of her bottles so she was having more milk during the day. You could try gently encouraging (obviously not forcing, just offering more often for example) more daytime feeding and see what happens.