Hi
I have noticed a pattern with my three week old for the past week or so and hoping to get some opnions about whats going on.
my 3 week old has a feed at the begining of his bedtime ritual somewhere between 7:15 to 8:00, then ritual, and off to sleep no later than 8:45. He is doing reasonably well at the moment in settling to his night sleep. I dream feed at 22:50 and he usually starts making noises at around 2:20. with the dummy, he holds him for about 30 min longer. so around 2:45 - 2:50 he has another feed. this is usually a big feed, one of the biggest of his day (25 min for both breasts). straight back to sleep, again - usually setlles well. but then he hardly manages to go another 3 hours. at around 5:45 he wakes, dummy doesn't settle him so i figure he is hungry but he only takes a very small feed - (no more than 5 min, 10 tops, and just the one breast). he settles down again reasonably well (takes him a bit longer but like other times doesn't need intervention) but then will wake somewhere between 7:30 and 8:00 hungry, taking a slightly bigger feed but not a great one. nevertheless, from this point onwards he would do 3 hourly feeds easily.
Should i be worried? is this snacking? should I avoid this? and if so, how?
Thanks.
