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12-24-2012 at 3:35 AM
Cdienst
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When to stop feeding at night?

My girl is 4 1/2 months old and a healthy weight 15ish and still wakes every 3 hours at night.. she wakes because her diaper is dirty and so I feed her to get her back to sleep and because she seems hungry. Should I stop doing this? Ill try to just get her back to sleep but it takes so long That i might as well feed her to keep her asleep longer anyway. Advice?
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12-24-2012 at 4:29 AM
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I do that too. I'm probably to continue it until she STTN!
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12-24-2012 at 7:10 AM
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We were doing the same thing until my doctor recommended slowly weaning her out of that habit if she is drinking an efficient amount each day. He suggested that she could develop a habit of waking every night that could last until she is two or older. He suggested starting out by feeding every 4 hours instead of 3 at night. We offered her a pacifier at first when she woke at three hours and she fell right back to sleep. We kept pushing the feeding back as the weeks went on and now she is sleeping great. She is in the crib at 9pm, we wake her at 11 for a final feed and put her back down til 77:30. Best of luck.
 
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12-24-2012 at 7:18 AM
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I don't initiate cutting out night time feeding until after age two.
 
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12-24-2012 at 7:55 AM
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My LO is SSTN, but our doctor did say that if she wakes in the middle of the night or early in the AM to try anything but feeding her (rocking, singing...) because they can get in the habit of waking to feed. I just usually give her a bigger bottle right when she gets up.
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12-24-2012 at 8:59 AM
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I try other things to get him back to sleep first, if he doesn't go down quickly, I feed him. I'll feed him in the MOTN until he's weaned. I don't believe in restricting food for babies. They grow quickly, they need to eat.

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12-24-2012 at 9:10 AM
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JayandEmm:
I try other things to get him back to sleep first, if he doesn't go down quickly, I feed him. I'll feed him in the MOTN until he's weaned. I don't believe in restricting food for babies. They grow quickly, they need to eat.
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12-25-2012 at 12:02 PM
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Umm if baby wakes and is acting hungry, he is hungry. Feed him. I don't know, I come from a very baby-led household (my brothers and sisters are much younger than me and I was very involved in their first years) and I do the same when it comes to my own LO. For the most part, whatever makes him happy, makes me happy.
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12-25-2012 at 2:47 PM
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I wouldn't feed her. You might make her dependant on feeding to fall asleep. My LO has been going 5 to 6 hours a night since 31/2 months. I give her a pacifier if she wakes up before 3 and she will go right back to sleep. But she usually goes 1030430 easily. If she takes pacifiers try giving her one of those instead. If she is really hungry she will let you know and the pacy won't satisfy her.
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12-25-2012 at 5:52 PM
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Aisham28:
I wouldn't feed her. You might make her dependant on feeding to fall asleep. My LO has been going 5 to 6 hours a night since 31/2 months. I give her a pacifier if she wakes up before 3 and she will go right back to sleep. But she usually goes 1030430 easily. If she takes pacifiers try giving her one of those instead. If she is really hungry she will let you know and the pacy won't satisfy her.

Same here.  My LO started making up for the oz missed in the morning.  He feeds every 2 hours in the morning.  I will take that over waking up twice at night!
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12-25-2012 at 8:19 PM
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LO wakes up once a night usually. I always just grab her, change her, feed her back to sleep. Works for us, I guess I could try other things but this works just fine and I don't mind feeding her. Plus this is generally the only time I let her nurse to sleep. All naps & bedtime she puts herself to sleep so I don't think she'll become dependent.
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12-26-2012 at 11:20 AM
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My doctor recommended we stop feeding at night. Saying a baby at 6 months can go a whole night without nursing.  Very occasionally she does sleep the whole night through.  However, if she wakes up during the night I feed her.  

It is partially because it is an easy way to get her to sleep and partially because night feeding is linked to return of the mother's period.  I'd rather not get my period back so I'm still night feeding!   
 
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12-26-2012 at 10:03 PM
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I stopped night-nursing DS1 when he was primarily on solids and self-night-weaned. He was about 14 months old.  It is normal for tiny tummies to be hungry in the night. If it helps, remember that the idea of  baby STTN is very much a modern, Western idea and is a weird concept for most of the world as well as for most of history.

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12-27-2012 at 11:09 AM
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JayandEmm:
I try other things to get him back to sleep first, if he doesn't go down quickly, I feed him. I'll feed him in the MOTN until he's weaned. I don't believe in restricting food for babies. They grow quickly, they need to eat.

 This.  I am up every 2.5-4 hrs. to feed my son.  He is hungry and wants to eat.  I figure when he is ready to STTN and not feed, he will do so.  

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01-03-2013 at 11:35 AM
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My doctor says there is no need for a baby to be waking to eat after the age of 4 months. My baby girl (now 9 months) goes down at 7pm and wakes between 5am-6am now.  She no longer wakes up multiple times a night since I stopped feeding her.

 

My parents (of three kids) recommended just letting them "cry it out" at night if they are waking without any reason. (ei Your child doesn't wake up with a dirty diaper).  After about three nights (long and terrible for mom but wonderful after the three or four nights) they will no longer wake up and if they do they quickly self soothe themselves back to sleep. 

 

It works and you will be such a happier mom with uninterrupted sleep! 

 
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01-03-2013 at 1:36 PM
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A lot of people suggest letting babies "cry it out", that's a lot easier said than done, especially when they're really little.  I had my son in my room until he was about 3 months, when he started sleeping better through the night.  As soon as we put him in his own room he slept so much longer!  We give him a bottle right before bed (8pm) and when he first went into his own room he would usually wake up once or twice (usually due to a wet diaper) and want to be fed.  I started doing some late night diaper changes before I went to bed which definately helped keep him sleeping longer ( alot of times he would wake while I was changing him, but he would be more annoyed than anything else).  It wasn't long before he slept through the night without feedings, maybe by 4 or 4.5 months he was totally done with night time feedings.  If he wakes up we usually let him cry for 10-15 minutes before we address it and if he keeps crying we will give him a binkie and leave the room, he'll usually continue crying for a bit and fall back to sleep.  I found that the more binkies you have in the crib, the less apt they are to cry for more than a minute or two at night.  We keep 4 in his crib and he goes to bed with a 5th.  My son is now a year, sometimes he'll wake for a minute and cry until he finds his binkie and falls back to sleep.  He typically sleeps from 8pm until between 9 and 11am.
 
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01-03-2013 at 1:38 PM
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I started to gradually feed less through the night around 3 months. I would put a binky in his mouth and he would fall right back asleep. He is 5 months now and hasn't been eating at all through the night. He sleeps for about 12 hours and will wake up a couple times but will mostly fall back asleep on his own. At his 4 month checkup the pediatrician said that we are feeding him a good amount so he is getting enough to eat during the day. I would probably go crazy waking up every 3 hours at night and would be a zombie at work.
 
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