3.5 mo sleeps in 2.5 hour increments. Ped says maybe low milk supply?

[lady5280]

But also they get more efficient feeders and so take bigger feeds at bigger intervals.

He is definitely taking longer feeds now that I'm stretching him out. Maybe I won't try to push up to 4 hours during the day until he is older and eating solids.

We fed him cereal tonight and he ate it right up, but I still don't know if he really needs it. I'm going to see how tonight goes as far as gassiness or if he has any subsequent constipation. If so I will quit. The pedi who recommended cereal has been in the biz for 30 years so I am sure he might be a little stuck in his old ways.

He is taking full feeds at night. I'm just concerned bc he used to go longer at night between feeds so maybe I'm a little spoiled

What about the NWs where he doesn't want to eat? Just something he'll grow out of? Also, I haven't been doing this, but do you recommend I cluster feed in the evenings, or is that just for younger babies?

Thank you!!

[Shiv52]

I still cluster fed at 4 months and it did help get longer stretches at night. 

He is taking full feeds at night. I'm just concerned bc he used to go longer at night between feeds so maybe I'm a little spoiled

Its not unusual to have a bit of sleep regression at 4 months and stop going as long as they did but it will come right again.

The pedi who recommended cereal has been in the biz for 30 years so I am sure he might be a little stuck in his old ways.

I'd say so.  Its a very old school thinking.  That and leave them to cry and they'll sleep all night!  My HV had the same unhelpful advice!

What do you do the NWs when he doesn't want to feed?  How do you resettle him?  I would make sure he is going 4 hours between feeds at ngiht.  So if you feed at 12am say, if he wakes before 4am then resettle another way. 

[lady5280]

4 hours...I don't think that's going to happen...In fact, he hardly even goes 3 hours some nights. It's exhausting, and I try to settle him with his pacifier (and if he cries I will eventually pick him up) but he doesn't settle usually unless I feed him. Then he conks right out again.

Any thoughts?

[gyorgyi]

How much does he feed during the night? Is he having a full feed or just a few minutes and he falls asleep?
When he is nursing is he actually eating or just sucking on it for comfort?
What do you think?

[lady5280]

He takes full feeds most of the time, then comfort nurses for a few minutes until I cut him off. I have noticed certain times he will comfort nurse only for a few minutes before nodding off. Of course, I am half asleep too so sometimes I don't pay attention to how long he is actually nursing. I will pay more attention tonight and see. But he has been nursing 3 times a night again, and has been for some time now. It's frustrating because he will go longer in the day than the night between nursings. I am pretty sure a sleep cycle is ending and that is what wakes him a lot of times. Other times it is my husband snoring, our noisy neighbors upstairs, or a street noise that wakes him, and he doesn't always know how to put himself back to sleep. After I try to help him he gets frustrated and starts crying, which is when I will resort to nursing him.

Does it sound like I am starting bad habits? I sure hope I'm not...