when do i feed with night wakings?

[holdensmom]

hi all!
my ds is 3 months old. he was sleeping fairly well with only two night wakings at around 2 and 5. i usually fd him at these times. now he has started waking every two hours sometimes every hour. he goes to bed at 730. df at 10 30. then hell wake up several times starting around 1 or 2am. how do i know when i should feed him? do i feed him  at his first waking? any ideas?
schedule looks something like this.
7am wake/eat
830 nap
10 e
11 30 nap
1 e
230 nap
4 eat
530 nap
7 eat/ bath bed.
1030 df.

[erinsmum36]

how long has been waking like this for.. could it be a growth spurt? have you been feeding him when he wakes and if so, how much does he take?

[holdensmom]

hi erinsmum!
he has been doing this waking several times a night for about 3 weeks now. i feed him usually the first time he wakes which is generally around 2. he will take his normal feed which is about 4 ounces. when he wakes after that i try to get him to go back to sleep with out feeding him sometimes he goes back to sleep, sometimes i have to feed him. i have been getting confused as to when to feed tho, because he wakes sometimes at 1 and ill try to feed him and he will only take about 2 ounces. so i figure he must not have been hungry, but then the next time he wakes, about two hours later, i dont know if it is from hunger or not because he didnt take a full feeding last time. so i am not sure if i should feed him or not. he has gone from 7 till 4 or 5 am with a df at 1030 ish. before this every two hour waking started so i know he can do it, he just isnt. any thoughts??

[Colin Macs Mom]

LOs have a giant growth spurt at 3 mo. or thereabouts, I suspect that's what's going on with you. The hunger cry for most LOs has a coughlike quality, so you might try and listen for that. Otherwise, I would just go with the flow for a couple days.

[holdensmom]

thanks for the replys. last night when fairly well. i didnt do the dream feed just to see what time he would wake up. he woke at 12 30. i fed him then and he took6 ounces. about 2 ounces more than his regular feed. he woke again at 430. i did pu/pd and he went back to sleep till 5 30. i fed him then and he slept till 7! not a bad night.

[Colin Macs Mom]

That's great!!