sleep and feeding routine at 5 months!!!

[Lou+Bubs]

This past week Luice has dropped her morning bottle, she has a dream feed at 10 so i am trying to drop this bottle and hope she bring her morning bottle back in. The only thing she seems to depend on her dream feed to settle her to sleep properly. I was just wondering what everyone else routine are.

7-8 wake up
8-8:30 Porridge
9 ish little sleep
10-11 6 oz bottle
12.30 dinner few 2 cubes of veg and little bit of fruit.
She catnaps between food
4 7 ozdont let her sleep later than 6.30
7.30-8:00 8oz bottle usually falls asleep on this bottle
she then starts to stirr and wake up again at 9.30-10 so she has 2-3oz of milk which i am slowly dropping.

She has never really drunk more than 24 oz since about 8 weeks introduced solids at 17 weeks as reccommend by gp. Do you think i should just leave the routine as it is or try drop the dreamfeed?

Any advice welcome!

 

[OmarsMum]

Hi hun. Omar has never been a big drinker. We weaned at 20 wks but he dropped his milk intake to 10 oz in 24 hrs. He started to sleep through for 12-13 hrs without feeds at 12 wks. I think it would be a good idea to drop her dream feed & make up for the dropped ozs by mixing them with her solids. When she's 6 mnths she will only need 18-21 oz of formula in additon to her solids (3 meals). If u can maintain 24 oz in addtion to her solids at this stage, there is no need to worry about her formula intake. xx

When she wakes up in the night offer her some water or her dummy if she takes one. xx

 

[Lou+Bubs]

Thank you, i will try and drop her dream feed tonight and if she does shtir 9.3o ish i will try her with water and see how she goes, nerver thought of that. Through the day when she has her solids i do add abit of her milk with it, to try add up some oz's.