Help with night wakings - 13 week old

[Sunnyday01]

Hi

We seem to have taken a backward step over the past couple of weeks as he was pretty much going from his dream feed at 10.30 until around 4, then had a feed and back til 6.30/7.

Over the last week or so he has been waking around the 2.30am and then again at 5-5.30. He takes a full bottle at 2.30 and but sometimes refuses the bottle at 5 but is very difficult to settle. However today he woke up at 1.00 so bit even 3 hours since last bottle but he took the whole lot.

He was on 6oz but 2 days ago put him up to 7oz to try and make the night time wakings reduce but it's made no difference. IM not sure if up I shoukd up it again 8oz seems a lot for a young bsby (although he is a big boy - 8 11 at birth and 15 4 at 12 weeks)

Our EASY routine is something like this (still working on naps!)

6.30 wi
6.45 eat
7.15-7.30 sleep (1 1/2 hrs)
9.45 eat
11.00-11.15 sleep ( 45 mins)
12.45 eat
2.00 sleep (45 mins)
3.45 eat
4.45 sleep in pram on walk (1 hour)
6.30 bath
6.50 bottle and bed

Any advice greatly received as I'm new to all this only been doing BW for a couple of weeks!

[lily_layne]

If you think he'd drink more in the day, I would give it to him. I didn't bottle feed but some of the really good books I read suggested letting baby decide how much he wants/needs to eat at each feed.

Extra night wakings are pretty common for this age. They're often part developmental and part hunger. There seems to be big leap in appetite around 4 months!

It looks like you've got a great start on your routine. The only think I would tweak is to maybe put him down for a nap a bit sooner after a 45 minute nap. He may be getting OT which can lead to another short nap.