Hi I'm new to mumsnet so hope I'm posting in the right place!
My nearly 5 month old has never been a great feeder. As in never long feeds whether on breast or bottle, but he puts on weight well so i have never worried about it.
He's exclusively bottle fed now and has 7 feeds a day. An average of 3 or 4 oz per feed during the day ( he refuses any more!) then a 6 oz bottle at 7pm when he goes to bed.
We did a dream feed during the first 2 months and it worked well but I'm worried we made this a habit as now he wakes for a feed himself at 10pm every night! He takes a 6 oz bottle. Then always one wake up to feed between 2 and 4 then back till 7. The middle of the night wake up he only takes a very small feed. On advise from health visitor we water this down so 3oz of water with 2 scoops. He really doesn't need it! But won't sleep without it.
Then he wakes 7-7.30 but will not eat till 9ish?
Any suggestions for feeding changes or how to drop the middle of the night feed??! Thanks :-)
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Baby not hungry when he wakes? Do I need to change things?!
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Ceetee23 · 22/11/2012 10:31
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