Habit or a Proper Night Feed?

[nugget13]

Hi,

I'm trying to determine whether my baby is waking out of habit or really does need this night feed. He wakes nightly, anywhere between 3:30 - 4:30 am every night. Usually he's in the 4-4:15 range but there have been a few outliers. Usually he eats very little - less than 10 minutes and conks out again. Last night, from the time that I heard him cry to when he dozed off after eating, the duration was 6 minute (however we had a long evening out and he was very very tired). I don't want to try to cut this feed out if he truly needs it (he's breastfed) but it just seems to be a habitual waking and a comfort feed. However, I just wanted to ask opinions and be sure.

Earlier this week, he woke but didn't seem to want to eat so I resettled without feeding but it took a long time (30-40min+).

He goes to bed 7:30ish and we dreamfeed 10:30ish. He's 14 weeks old today.

Any thoughts?

Thx.

[doodlebugCT]

I couldn't tell you if it was habit or proper night feeding. But I will offer that my LO needed his 3-4ish feeding until he was 5 months and then intermittently throughout the 5th month.  Now at 6 1/2 months and he hasn't woken for it in almost two weeks.

[Layla]

If this is the only night feed he's having, I would say he's doing pretty well (even if he has a DF as well). Dd3 had up to 2 night feeds at that age.

HTH a little

[Sarah - Enfys' Mum]

Medi's thirteen weeks and has at least two feeds. You're doing great.