When did yr LO stop middle of night feed?

[Hattie80]

My LO goes 3/4 hrs between feeds throughout day. I try to extend them at night but he always wakes after about 4 hrs. I don't mind the midnight feed but the middle of the night one I'd like to stop. I let him cry for a bit but it goes on so i know he's genuinely hungary. He's nearly 4 months. He's only eva done 5 hrs in one stretch and that was only twice. I really need sum quality unbroken sleep as i'm permanently shattered.
Any advice? Should he be sleeping thro now?
Thanks

 

[Carrie76]

I think it was about 13-14 weeks for us!

 

[nightkd]

My LO doesn't do middle of the night feeds sometimes (like last night, she slept through from like 11 til 6, she went 11 til 7 the night before the night before last....(confusing huh ) but then the night before last she had a feed at like 3am.... So sometimes she sleeps through, other times she wakes between 2-4 usually for a feed)... She's been doing this for about a week now I think.

We find she sleeps through more when she has more to eat between 6 and 11 (we have fussy time, where she will eat more than usual and be more restless in the evening)... She does better when she has a bedtime bath with me also and settles easier usually after that.

Not sure if that's any help, but fussy time is part of the key for us...and now we have a bedtime routine in place she's doing even better! She sometimes sleeps for 5 hours during the day anyway, so could just be that she likes her sleep (just like her dad and I ^_^ )!!

xx

 

[mrsthomas623]

Hun I wish I had some advice but my LO will do a (hopefully) 3.5 to 4 hour stretch then want a bottle around midnight... and then is up every 2 or 3 hours for a bottle. Its a killer... everyone keeps telling me that he should drop his night feedings, but I do not see it happening. Good luck though, my positive sleep vibes are with you!

 

[ellie27]

My Anna lost a lot of weight in the first 2 weeks so we had to wake her up for night feeds til she was about 4 weeks old!!

But by the time she was 8 weeks old she was doing great and she dropped the feed around then!

 

[Petite]

Abbey has sleep thru since 5 weeks, I think we've been very lucky though.

Have you tried using a dummy? I found with Abbey she only really wanted something to suck on for comfort and wasn't actually hungry. x

 

[Shady_R]

My lo dropped her middle of the night feed at 3 weeks, she was going from between 8-9 till 5 when she dropped that feed. Like the above poster said, have you tried a dummy, my lo has hers if she wakes in the night and goes right back to sleep. Hope you find something that works.

 

[bubbles123]

At the beginning it was feeds at 11pm, 2am and 5am. The 2 am went about 8 weeks and the 5am about 12 weeks. He's now just fed at 11pm then goes through to 8am X

 

[OULINA]

I think it was arround 10 weeks !! i still cant believe how lucky i am she is such a good baby ! her last feed is 11:00pm and then she will wake up sometimes 8:00 am sometimes 9:00 am and sometimes ..........10:00 am ! i was shocked when that happened ....

 

[history_girls]

Well........ until 3 months it was a Midnight and 4am feed, then went to one around 1 to 2am.

It was one week short of 6 months that she dropped her night feeds altogether. She didn't slept through constantly then but didn't need milk. It wasn't until 7-8 months that sh really got good at sleeping through.

Every baby is different - I kept on hanging in there until 12 weeks believing she should then sleep through. My LO had other ideas and said she needed her milk so we went with her. 3 months on I've forgotton the sleepless nights so there is an end to it! -Just keep going your LO knows what they are doing!

 

[sunbeam]

my little boy was 18 weeks wen he went from 10pm till 7am..

 

[OmarsMum]

12 wks. He started to go 12-13 hrs without feeds in between xx

 

[Laucu]

Emma dropped her first night feed when I switched her to formula at 3 months, but didn't drop the second one until about 6 months!

 

[Alias]

Ellie dropped one night feed around 8 weeks, now she's going from 8pm to 2am to 6am. She was small at birth, so I expect her to be a little behind on dropping the second bottle. When she wakes up I give her her dummy while I prepare the bottle, I find it she's 'early' she'll go back to sleep, but if it's more than 5 1/2 hours from her last bottle, the dummy just doesn't do.

 

[kim88]

Nathan has been sleeping through, 8pm til 7am with no feeds in between since he was 4 months old. x