Help! Baby started Night feeding again, but won't finish morning feed.

[Nickij]

Jack is now 19 weeks and has been "going through the night" without food from 11pm - 7.30am since about 10 weeks old. (with several NW for his Dummy)

However about 10 days ago he started crying for food in the middle of the night -  I thought it was just a growth spurt for something but  it doesn't seem to be ending.

The problem is he is now draining a 7oz bottle at around 4 in the morning (sometimes its been as early as 2.30am sometimes as late as 5am). But he is then not interested in his morning feed.

He feed last night about 3.30am - finished the bottle, but then I struggled to get him to take 4 oz for his morning feed.

So I now feel like its a vicious circle -  he is not taking as much in the day- as he is full from the night feed, but then he is hungry again at night.  So I am not sure what to do?

Our typically easy is as follows.

Wake: 7.30
E: 7.45am
A: - 9.30
S: 9.30am -11.00am
E:11am
A: -till 1pm
S 1pm - 2.30pm
A: 2.30pm- 3pm
E: 3pm
A:until4.45
S 4.45 - 5.45
A 5.45 -  Time, with Daddy and bedtime routine -  (Bath etc)
E: 6.45
S- 7pm - upstairs in bed -  usually asleep by 7.30pm
E - Dream Feed at around 11pm

Then at the moment waking any time between 2.30 and 5am for a feed and has taken a full bottle every time accept once in the past 10 days.

[Lolly]

Have you tried limiting the amount you give him and then resettling him? So give him 5oz and then resettle him with shh/pat or whatever works for him. If that works for a few nights then reduce the bottle by another oz or so again. You will need to try and increase his day bottles to compensate, have you tried a faster flow teat to see if that helps him to take more in the day?

Laura

[Nickij]

Thanks for those ideas.

Jack hasn't been well the past couple of days (cold and chest infection) so I am going to let is go until he is better, and then try with reducing the amount of milk.

I have just stopped BF a week ago (had been just doing one feed a day for the last 3 weeks) so we only had him on level 2 teats, because he struggled to cope with the flow difference.

When we did try him on a 3 teat a couple of times he just got overwhelmed by the flow of milk and cried. I'll try again in a week or so when I haven't been BF for a while:)

[Lolly]

Sounds like a plan!

Let us know how you get on!

Laura

[Dianne32]

We have exactly the same problem with our 3 and a half months old daughter. Advise I got is to dilute the milk she drinks at 4 AM and hopefully she will be hungry again in the morning. I am going to try the coming night and see what happens...