Hello!
My 5 1/2 month old girl is now taking a fell feed at DF and at 2 NW's. She is BF but gets bottle of EBM before going to bed and now in last 3 days bottle of formula for DF. I know that if I can shift the calories, she would get better since she is not hungry at the beginning of the day (first feed is tiny) and she always nurses much better at night. She is very aware and easily distracted during the day-I always try to feed her in a dark room without distractions but she does not seem that hungry and I suspect it is because of her full night feedings. She is very happy during the day, is active and has a great weight.
I get torn between feeding her every 4 hours BW way so that she works up hunger, and feeding her as much as possible to get the calories in her somehow... she has teeth coming in for past month, she is rolling over and just started to crawl a little bit yesterday. She goes to bed independently and needs just couple of minutes of holding before naps. Sometimes when she seems upset and roots and I think it could be because of teeth I nurse her before nap but still put her down drowsy-her eyes are open for few seconds before passing out.
Last night and couple of other times I attempted to get her back to sleep without nursing her at the last feed around 4am, she was upset but I was able to get her to fall asleep ion my arms-unfortunatelly she always wakes as soon as I put her into crib, after doing this for an hour last night, I just nursed her and she was out. She does not have issues to fall asleep after nursing at night but she will cry when I try to cut it short as well.
EASY (not very consistent-this is an example, has been going thru a lot of changes lately, average A time 2:20-2:30, longer at the evening)
A 6:30
E7 (very little)
S9
A10
E 11
A
S12:30
A1:30
E 2-2:30
A
S 4:00
A 4:45
E 5
A
E 7-7:30
S 7:30-8 depending on how tired, goers to sleep on her own
D10-11
NW1 between 1-3
NW2 between 3-5, sometimes only 2 hours pass between the NW's