I have been cluster feeding for a few weeks now. Our routine generally goes 7,10,1,4,6,8,10.30/11. A few days ago ds was getting really fussy at bedtime routine so I was giving him his 6pm feed and topping him off at 7 to settle him before bed (before this he had 6pm feed and then bedtime routine), i was then pushing the 2nd cluster feed to 8.30 instead of 8 to get him to take more as it would only have been an hour since he had last had a wee bit of milk.
Yesterday we slept in and I didn't start my EASY day until 8.30am (long lie was blissful
). I just continued the day as normal, feeding every 3 hours but got thrown in the evening when I realised I hadn't clustered early evening and had no time to do it after 8pm bedtime as we also DF about 10.30/11. I went to bed with much trepidation but the was nicely surprised by a 5.15am wake up!!
(usually 3.30/4) Anyways we are back on a 7am start and 7pm bedtime today. I gave him about 3.5oz at 6 and left the last oz for bedtime routine but he then took another 3.5oz!!! I was thinking of doing a 2nd cluster feed at 8.30pm but worried. Can this feeding schedule turn him into a snacker. When cluster feeding do you do the top off at bedtime? Or should it just be the feed at 6 the off to bed for 7? In regards to yesterday when I didn't CF and he slept for a longer stretch, is this something to do with dropping that feed or just a nice coincidence?
