Night feeds

but when should you cut it the night feeds altogether really? from what age does a baby no longer need night feeds?

I would say from about 4 months, they should be able to go at least 6 hours to start with, and then build up longer sleeps from there. good luck

my baby boy is 17 weeks old and wakens every couple of hours for seemingly no reason

My baby is 17 weeks old and she sleeps for 11/12 hours at night and has done since 12 weeks, she feeds every 3 hours in the day and cat naps in day too, she has a 2 year old sister who keeps her alert for most of the day which is why i think she doesn't sleep alot in day and lots at night! Hope this helps

to mybabyboynme....i would say, if you think your child still neeeds it, give it to them. with my first, I swore by a sensible mix of the routines described by gina ford and the baby whisperer. the 'dream feed' worked for us. matthew not only slept through the night from about 8 weeks, he also slept soundly through the 10.30/11pm nappy change and feed right through to around 7am. He is nearly 3 now and up until I think he was about 2, maybe a few months older, if he hadn't eaten much during the day, or refused/half drank his bedtime bottle, my maternal instinct would tell me to give him a small dream feed (around 120/150mls). he thrived as a baby and is a heathly toddler. go with your gut and do what works for you. good luck.

my daughter is 14 weeks and is still wanting feeding every three hours day and night. Any advise on how to stop her wanting so much food? she is already on aptimil hungry baby milk and i've tried dream feeding nothing seems to work.

my baby wont sleep without a bottle,day or night, and wakes up every couple of hours at night for a feed, ive tried giving her water at night, butr she still wakes up for it! shes 22 weeks now. help!

my son was 8 months old,he is hav formula in day and breastfeed in night.the problem is he dont sleep all the night he wakeup every 1 hour,need help to get him sleep for long

my baby is 12 weeks old she was wakens at night and I thought she was hungry but then one day I just turn her on other side and she slept till the morning without fed and now i just change her when she wake up at night sing her song or just give cudle and she will sleep without bottle:)

I just cut out the night feed when he was only taking a small amount of about 3oz and I upped his day feeds to cover what he was taking in the night. We haven't had a night feed since about 11 weeks, wevalways dream feed and if he seems to be hungrier than usual I cluster feed but only if I think he needs it just based on instinct. He's bottle fed. I've had quite a few full nights sleep from him since we dropped the night feed and up his calorie intake in the day but recently he's started habitual waking at 5:30, he doesn't need to be fed he just fusses and eventually goes back to sleep so going to apply some baby whisperer techniques wake to sleep or shush pat to try and get back to 7-7 nights we were having. I have done the BW since day one and I find it useful as long as you don't get too obsessed with it and you find out your own baby's indosyncracies and someone else said trust your own instinct - I use BW as a guide to what could be wrong and use my observations and instinct to decide what is wrong. Anyway I personally recommend reading her books and the forum for hints and tips but it's not for everyone x

My 2 month old a wakens twice every night for her feeds and sometime I had to wake her up for feed, she is very good. Think I'm lucky x

my baby will be six months next week so i plan to change to stage 3 milk. HE wakes two to three timesa night and im really tired. Im a mum of three and people think i should know and be the best but every child is different and this baby is a hungry baby. He has been eating since he was three and a half months so is now gradually eating more but still has 6oz feeds 5 a day and 2 or 3 at night? help a friend tried giving water at night?

my son is 9 mths and still wakes for feeds only twice a night unless he is ill and i still give him is milk

Hi my lo is 13wks he wakes once in the night always at different times maybe 3 am or even 6am I give him a feed when he wakes and he has about 3ozs I do give him a dream feed at 1030pm he has 4ozs I want to try and stop him waking any suggestions I know I am very lucky as he is back to sleep in a matter of mins I don't think he is awake properly he never opens his eyes?

my son is 10 months old and has always had an excellent routine. We are downstairs by about 7-7:30 every morning, he has his 1st morning nap at around 9-9:30 lasting an hour and a half, he has his second nap at around 3-3:30 lasting about an hour, he has a bath everynight at 6:30 and has a 6oz (formula) bottle at 7, i always put him down awake and he self soothes very well, hel talk 2 himself for 10 minutes and then lay down to sleep. perfect baby during the day but my god how things change at night!!! he then wakes at 10:30 and wond settle until he has a bottle, then again again 1:30 for another then again at 4:30 for another, sometimes hel wake every 2 hours also. although he doesnt actually sit upright and open his eyes he is still asleep but crying out for feeds and will not settle till he has them. my god this broken sleep is really starting to drag me down! someone please tell me some ggod advice

Heidi123 my 9 month old daughter is exactly the same routine as ur boy, I thought as soon as she was mobile it would tire her out more but unfortunately it hasn't, she's on solid food aswel as bottle feeding so I know she's not actually hungry I even have her on the hungrier formula milk but stil no changes, I gave her her dummy but nothing seems to b curing the sleepless nights, I'm sorry I can't advise you on wat to do but wanted you to know ur not alone, help please anyone have any ideas???

Hi Heidi 123 and Linzi 85...completly understand how frustrating this is!! My daughter is 10 months and was exactly the same...wakening anytime she felt like it I overnight, numerous times and only settling if I gave her a feed!! I finally decided to take charge and refused to give her no more than one feed overnight and when she turns 12 months il be cutting that one out too!!! It was hell.....she cried and I cried cause I thought I was being a bad mum!! but after a week or two she stopped waking numerous times and now only wake once!! I gave her water/juice but she only wanted milk so I comforted her and tucked her back in!! Some night she settled and others she cried for a while but gave up..eventually!!! Was really hard but worthit!! The other change I made was to cut down her day naps to one a day!! She now sleeps from 1400 - 1530 after getting up at 9am, bed at 8pm!! Hope this helps..I know its hard but its best for bubs to get a fuller nights sleep!!

Docherty did the crying go on for long when u refused a feed? My daughter is 20 weeks and will not nap in the day unless we are out in pram and night time wakes randomly thru the night and will only go back to sleep if I breastfeed. I am thinking of weaning her off maybe. Or maybe give her a formula feed during day to help fill her up?.
Thing is she has a delicate tummy too, suffered with reflux as a newborn and recently when I tried her on solids it seemed to flare up again so stopped solids. Last night I tried to give a small amount of formula aswell as breast but this made her wake in pain and was sick lots so I don't know what to do.

I think coming off the breast is a must or maybe refusing it at night but I find it so hard wen she is upset.

hi i am thinking of starting to reduce breastfeeding and put my 19week old onto formula during the day, and breast feed at betime? is this the best way to do it ? im not sure what stage of milk to use and roughly how much to give him? when i express he takes 5 oz every feed but not sure with formula