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Anna is not quite 3 months but she eats roughly every 3 to 4 hours during the day and has her last bottle around 8:30 or so and then sleeps until 5am (ish) so some days she gets 6 and some days she gets 5 depending on if she goes 4 hours in between.
I mentioned on one of your previous threads that I don't think waking a baby to eat is necessary and I really don't think it's needed two hours after he goes to sleep but again that's just my opinion. You just want to do what works best for you.

DS was still nursing 8+ times a day at 3 months. Every 2 hours during the day and I think once at night at that age. You can always try and see what happens, but he will probably need to make up that feeding at some point during the day or night.

@Adira: yes, better to wake him earlier than you getting woken up! You get more sleep that way!

My LO was nursing about 6x a day at that point...it went up to 7-8 around 4 months, and now at 8 months, it's back to 6-7. I think you can give it a try, but as others have said, he'll probably need to make it up at another time, or will need to have more milk during his current feeding times, which his tummy might just not be able to do yet!

@Adira: yeah give it a shot! At least you know that you can always to back to what's working for you guys now

I breastfeed her on demand, but I estimate it's at least 8-12 times.

@Adira: BTW your baby's sleep is my dream. haha DS slept really well from 2-4 months but now he wakes up 3-4 times a night. ugh! I wish I could just feed him at 9 and he'd sleep all the way until 5 am.

@Adira: I hope it doesn't hit you like it did us. A is 8 months now. But I've refused to do any sleep training at this point so I suppose maybe his sleep would be better if I had sleep trained. Ever since I went back to work, he doesn't drink much from a bottle so he nurses more at night to make up the calories. It's working for us for now.

during maternity leave, we worked on sleep training and fell into a 4-hour feeding schedule during the day, and 1 night feeding. i know that's not common and i was pretty anxious about it, especially when we went to daycare and saw babies much older than him on 2-3 hour eating schedules. eventually, around 4 months, we switched to a 3-hour eating schedule at the daycare's request. i think that because he wasn't getting the kinds of naps at daycare that he was getting at home, he had more opportunity to be cranky and realize when his hunger was setting in. so now he eats 5 times a day.

I have a six month old who still eats 6 or 7 times a day. 5 would never work for her.