Hi, does anyone have any advice please? My 12 WO has been on 3 hour EASY since approx 5 weeks. She feeds 7am , 10am, 1pm, 4pm (I wake her to feed if she is asleep). I try to cluster feed at 6pm but she is hardly ever interested, I offer her the bottle again just before bath at 7pm and then again just before bed, generally around 7.45pm to try and tank her up. I am making up 4ozs of formula for each feed but I'd say only half of these get drained, often she will stop at 2ozs, although there doesnt appear to be a pattern to which feeds she wants less.
The dream feed is between 10.30-11.30pm depending on when I am going to bed but she can generally only manage 3ozs for a DF.
My questions are as follows:
1. Should I try longer between feeds in the hope she will take more at each feed? (On average she is tatking between 20-26 ozs in a 24 hour period). If so is there an EASY schedule for this anywhere?
She can only stay awake about 90 mins before getting grumpy so think its too soon for 4 hour EASY?
2.
She still wakes for a night feed every night, sometimes 1.30am but other times goes until 5am, when she wakes later (eg 5am) should I feed straight away or try and 'keep her going' until beginning of day? If she feeds at 5 I need to wake her at 7 and she is not interested in the first feed of the day, thus throwing timings out?
3.
finally, she seems to have been on 4oz feeds for ages, but I am loathe to offer her more if she drains a bottle as I know its likely she wont take the next one and I am throwing so much formula away as it is!! At what age shoudl she taking larger feeds?
Does anyone have any advice please?
