https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:37:34 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-that-bottlefeed-at-night-sleeping-through-the-night#post-208410 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:28:04 +0000 Mrs. Bee 208410@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>there are two things you can try. you can try a dream feed -- wake your babies up around 10 or 11 when you're going to sleep, and feed them then. then you might get a longer stretch of sleep at night.</p> <p>and babies are supposed to sleep a little longer on formula because it takes longer to digest, but sounds like they already do a long first stretch already. you could try giving them formula at bed time and see if that makes a difference.</p> <p>they are still young so they may start to sleep through the night on their own. 2 wake ups is not that bad..... olive still wakes up twice! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-that-bottlefeed-at-night-sleeping-through-the-night#post-208383 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 07:54:05 +0000 twinmama 208383@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No real-life experience yet, but one of our nurses told us that formula usually does make babies sleep through the night earlier, as it takes longer to digest than breastmilk. But based on your current schedule, I'm not sure that's really true! Might be worth playing with the feeding times though, as Pol suggested, since they seem to be giving you a good stretch of time from 6-1. Maybe over a week or so you could adjust that forward to cover more of you &amp; hubby's sleeping hours?</p> <p>P.S. Can't believe your babies are 3 months already!!! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-that-bottlefeed-at-night-sleeping-through-the-night#post-208330 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 03:22:20 +0000 aunt pol 208330@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>How about a feed about 11/midnight? Should stretch it out a bit for you. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-those-that-bottlefeed-at-night-sleeping-through-the-night#post-208310 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 01:45:45 +0000 tequiero21 208310@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>so my babies are 3mos now and we bottle feed 7oz of breastmilk at around 6:30pm. we also feed 6oz of formula when they wake up around 1:00am. and then breastfeed when they wake up around 4:30am.</p> <p>how do you get them to sleep through the night? should i put them to bed later? feed them more? or will they just adjust as they get older? </p>