https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:34:14 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/early-morning-wakeups-and-bottle-feeding#post-1918454 Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:58:58 +0000 cookie_dough 1918454@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BabyTsMom: he is 5 months now and gets a 4oz bottle around 3h00a.m. he usually drinks most of it. Then he's up for the day around 6/6h30 and I have a 5oz bottle ready to go. (Not necessary since it's not a night wake up...but I don't want him waking up his big sister if he gets fussy too quickly). I'm wondering if giving him a bigger bottle at 3 would help him sleep in a little longer...but I guess the aim is to eventually eliminate that 3 am bottle ...not make it bigger ;-) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/early-morning-wakeups-and-bottle-feeding#post-1918420 Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:39:03 +0000 Tanjowen 1918420@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BabyTsMom: At 5 months my son was still doing 2 wakeups. I gave him 6 oz each time ands he usually drank half or more.</p> <p> At 7 months I started only offering 4 oz for his then one wakeup (we also started solids). Maybe the first week offer 6oz at his early wakeup and see what he does and slowly wean down. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/early-morning-wakeups-and-bottle-feeding#post-1918405 Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:29:18 +0000 ShootingStar 1918405@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had all these same questions when we switched from breastfeeding to formula. We found for us that warming the bottle took too long and DS didn't like it cold, but he would tolerate room temp. So we started out with ready to feed formula. Now we just measure out the formula powder into a bottle and we keep a Poland spring 8oz bottle next to it. We also ended up sleep training and ramping yup solids at the same time we started bottles and he dropped the MOTN feeds pretty quickly. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/early-morning-wakeups-and-bottle-feeding#post-1918402 Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:28:01 +0000 BabyTsMom 1918402@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cookie_dough: @Tanjowen: so for an early morning wakeup, like 5 or 6, do you prepare a full bottle (which would be about 6oz for my LO) or just a couple of ounces to keep him satisfied until he wakes for the day? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/early-morning-wakeups-and-bottle-feeding#post-1918257 Mon, 27 Oct 2014 18:43:34 +0000 Tanjowen 1918257@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cookie_dough: Yep, same exact scenario here. I would just go rock him and feed him, and he'd fall back asleep in a heartbeat. And @BabyTsMom:, I always just snuggled him in almost the same position as breastfeeding while rocking him, and no issues. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/early-morning-wakeups-and-bottle-feeding#post-1918224 Mon, 27 Oct 2014 18:09:18 +0000 cookie_dough 1918224@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I bought a bottle of nursery water at babies r us. I put the right amount in the bottle before I go to bed and leave it on my night stand. Then I just add in the formula powder when he wakes up and it's ready to go! I guess it's not really "warm "...just room temperature, but he tolerates it just fine! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/early-morning-wakeups-and-bottle-feeding#post-1918199 Mon, 27 Oct 2014 17:43:09 +0000 Charm54 1918199@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Bottle feeding, I think, made my daughter a great sleeper. Because like you said above, it takes a minute to get and warm the bottle....75% of the time she fell back asleep before I got in her room with the bottle so she learned to self-soothe really quickly and efficiently.</p> <p>I would prepare a bottle and put it in the fridge before I went to bed so I would just have to pop it in the warmer if I needed one in the MOTN. </p> <p>I also kept a couple of ready-to-feed cartons in the cupboard in case I ever needed one ASAP in an emergency and didn't have time to wait for a warm bottle since she would take room temp formula fine. This only happened once or twice but I was glad I had it!</p> <p>For my daughter anyway, a bottle always made her sleepy and helped her fall back asleep if she woke up. </p> <p>Good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/early-morning-wakeups-and-bottle-feeding#post-1918194 Mon, 27 Oct 2014 17:34:22 +0000 Mamasig 1918194@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My boys were used to cold bottles so the temperature didn't matter. I would just make a bunch and then get one when they woke up. Some nights I would just leave the bottle with water ready to mix formula in. I usually fed them in the same position I did during the day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/early-morning-wakeups-and-bottle-feeding#post-1918147 Mon, 27 Oct 2014 17:06:49 +0000 BabyTsMom 1918147@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Pardon my ignorance, but I have a question for those moms that bottle feed, especially those who started off breastfeeding and switched to bottles...<br /> Basically, my LO is 5 months old and we're making the switch to bottles/formula. I'm concerned about early morning wakeups because currently if LO wakes up early, I can run into his room and quickly nurse him back to sleep about 80% of the time. I'm worried that a bottle won't do the same thing, primarily because it takes time to prepare a warm bottle and by the time I get one ready, Im afraid he'll be too awake to be able to fall back asleep. Am I being irrational?<br /> Any tips or tricks? Should I keep a thermos with warm water by my bed, so I can make the bottle with water that's already warm, so it takes less time? Do I give him the bottle while he's pretty much reclined (like when nursing)? When I give him a bottle during the day, he's pretty much upright. But if I want him to get drowsy/stay drowsy, should I try to recline him more? Am I overthinking this?<br /> I'm sorry if these seem like basic questions but I really have no idea! I just hope that a bottle will do the same thing that nursing him down does now... </p>