My baby girl is just 4 months old, she is formula fed after being breast the first 3 months. She has always fed little and often, currently only has 4oz every 3 hours and that’s sometimes a struggle to get her to have 4, but she is putting on weight fine and happy/content.
currently her bedtime routine is bath/bottle asleep for 7 but she always wakes and fusses after 30-45 mins and has to be re settled with dummy/rocking and usually then properly settles about 8.30. I give her a feed about 10.30/11pm sometimes she wakes for it or if not I dream feed (strangely this is the only time of the day she will drink 5oz!). Up until last week she would wake at 2/3 ish for a feed and drink a full 4oz. However over the last week she has been waking but only drinking 1-2oz. She would then go back to sleep and start stirring around 5-6am. She will always refuse to stay in her crib past 6am but happily fall back asleep in bed with me till 7.30ish.
the last few days I have tried soothing her with dummy to get her back to sleep at 3am rather than feed as it’s clear she’s not really hungry. She falls back asleep within a minute in my arms but whenever I transfer her back to the crib she wakes within 10-15 mins and this goes on till 7am ish when she starts really crying for a feed. If I bring her into bed with me she would happily sleep from 3/4 till 7 but I don’t want to do this. (Co sleeping is not for me - I cannot sleep myself)
do I persist and hope she learns to stop waking? Or go back to giving the 1-2oz and take the fact she goes back to sleep in her crib for a few hours! She doesn’t scream for the feed when I don’t give it so she can’t be hungry. But equally I don’t want her in bed with me from 3/4am!
sorry for the long post!!