6 month old and night waking 5 times a night for feeds!

[Erin M]

Start with 3.15, 3.30 would be a big increase.  I would let your naps tell you when you've got the right A times -- they should be more than an hour, most likely 1.5 hours or more in order to be restorative naps.  I'd say that you need some longer A time in order to get those longer naps.  Those nap lengths make me think he needs more time -- if they get dramatically shorter, like 30 minutes and he's waking crying then you've probably gone too long.  There's some fine tuning that happens at this point to get it right.  I think that if you get some more restorative naps, he won't be quite so OT at BT and then he'll sleep a bit better.

[bevsteress]

Thanks so much! Your suggestion worked like a charm! He went down so easily with the suggested times of 2.45hrs in the morning and 3.15hrs in the afternoon! Last night he only woke for 2 feeds! Huge difference from the last few weeks! I guess we just have to hope that he will somehow start feeling less hungry at night so he will sttn eventually!  the formula seems to be helping though as he's sleeping a 5.5hr stretch now at least. there's light at the end of the rainbow at least!!!

[Erin M]

Yay!!    There should come a point where you'll begin to feel like he doesn't truly "need" the feeds anymore -- or he might drop them on his own, you never know!  In the meantime, enjoy some longer stretches of sleep!