Hi, hopefully this is the right place to post this!
My little boy is 19 weeks old and is on a 4hr easy with bottles at 7,11,3 and 7. He also has a dream feed at 10.30. We offer him 9oz bottles at each feed where he generally takes about 8oz. He sometimes finishes the bottle and we do offer more.
I have 2 concerns now
1. The dream feed used to be easy, we would wake him, change nappy and then feed him (can't just pop bottle in mouth as has a bit of reflux so needs to be propped up for 20 mins) and he used ti whinge a bit, he is now really hard to wake up and then just screams as he is unhappy at being woken - shoukd we stop the dream feed and maybe offer a feed at 6.30 instead then have a short activity, bath and change of clothes then offer him another feed - I guess cluster feeding instead of a DF
2. His NW is getting earlier and earlier, on the 3hr EAST, he was having 6-7oz at 7,10,1,3 and 7 and would not wake until shot 4am, over the past couple of weeks its moved early and earlier and it's now 2am. He generally takes a whole bottle still. I have tried offering more milk in day to reduce/delay NW but he doesn't take anymore. He also tends to stir around 5am but I don't think that is hunger related but often it's hard to resettle and we are doing it e ery 20 mins or so until around 6.15am.
I'd be grateful for any advice, I feel with the amount of milk he is drinking u he should be able to go longer than 4 hours at night!!