When is it time for bed?

[Babybags]

I feel a little embarassed to ask this question as I feel I should know the answer but here goes. What time should I put my 15wk old to bed? At the mo she naps at about 11am, 4pm and again at about 8pm. We then feed her at about 9.30pm and out her to bed at 10pm. She sleeps for about 1-2 hrs per nap.

DD wakes at about 3am and again at 6.30am and has been doing so for the last 3 wks although she was previously sleeping thro the night (10pm - 8am) very frustrating!! This change has coincided with a marked decrease in appetite - she takes about 100ml about 5 times a day and often screams and arches her back throughout the feed. Sorry I digress but this is another issue I'm worried about.

Hope someone can help answer my question and reassure me on the feeding, thanks

Babybags - you'll get much better advice from others here, but your DD sounds normal to me. My experience was that there is not "right" time to put your 15 wk old to sleep. It seems that just when you get into a routine, something changes. But that is what having a small baby is all about. I know very few babies who slept for 10 hours straight at 15 weeks and continued to do so. Are you breastfeeding?

Sounds fairly normal to me too. At 15 weeks, DS1 & 2 went to bed at 9pm and that was their bedtime feed. From memory, they used to sleep until about 5am at that age and woke then for another feed.

I sounds like your DD may be waking hungry if she's previously slept through and is not taking as much at each feed. As you mention a specific amount of milk, I assume you're bottle feeding - have you tried a different milk like a "hungrier babies" one? I bf so I can't really suggest anything on this.

The screaming and arching sounds like she might be windy. Have you tried:
changing your feeding position
changing the milk
burping before, during and after the feed
changing your teat (if your dd is exclusively bottle-fed, she may be ready for a faster-flowing teat and very frustrated by a newborn teat)?

Thanks for the replies!

DD is both bottle formula and breastfed. I tend to b/feed at the 5am feed and again mid afternoon.I haven't thought about her being windy - will try that. Have found she doesn't like to be fed in the normal cradling position but is better in her bouncy chair (not convenient when we're out!)although she never keeps her head still and makes this strange growling noise - v. bizarre!!

Bring on another day!!

Babybags, is she maybe getting interested in more than milk? At 15wks perhaps she is getting hungry. I know we aren't supposed to feed our babies anything before 6 months now but that doesn't mean they won't get hungry before 6 months. Is your milk supply decreasing since you introduced a bottle? Mind you if she is settling 1-2 hours for her naps maybe she isn't hungry...babies are so hard to fathom!

My 14wk old is going to bed any time from 9pm (good night) to 10.30pm (bad night!). We have just had a weird 2 weeks where she started to only feed for 6-8 mins and then to refuse the breast and scream her head off at night. Funniy enough it's just got better and she's fed properly the last 2 days - so these weird stages do pass. I reckon my dd is actually overtired in the evenings and that's why I get all this difficult behaviour but I just can't get her down any earlier. Am hoping that when I move onto a bottle I'll be able to pump her full of formula at 7.30pm and then I'll have my evenings back...

Don't feel too despondent. I don't, purely because this is baby no.2 and I know that eventually it does all settle down...honest!