I don't really know if this is a sleep issue or a feeding one. LO is almost 4 months old and sometimes STTN or will have one wake up. We usually will change him and give him a bottle and we're good to go for a few more hours depending what time it is. Should I not be doing this at his age? He gives us no trouble falling asleep but if I try to just get him to go back to sleep he has a meltdown. I'm pretty clueless with the whole sleep training thing. I just continued what we've been doing since he was born, he just wakes up alot less now but I don't want to be setting us up for trouble as he gets older. All the sleep horror stories on here scare me.
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Does he eat the whole bottle when you give him one? At that age, I personally didn't feel comfortable night weaning...if LO slept throgh the night, great, but I didn't want to force him to do so. I was also nursing, however, and was worried about my supply/the amount he was taking in...how is your LO's weight gain?
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I have a 4.5 month old and I still feed her because she is starving when she wakes up!! If your baby feeds well at this one wake up, then he probably still needs it IMO. You can think about sleep training if he's not eating much and just waking up for funsies. Lol.
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@Phillybaby2013: How many ounces is he getting per bottle and per 24 hour period? Or are you BFing + bottle feeding? We bottle feed & I just make sure Sadie gets all of her daily ounces during the day, that way she won't wake to eat at night.
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If what you're doing is working.. I wouldn't change it. Especially if he is not *falling* asleep eating.
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DS is 8.5m and still wakes up once to twice a night; most of the time he goes right back to sleep but on occasion he thinks it is play time. Doesn't help that his "witching hours" were always 3-5AM when he was a newborn.
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We tried night weaning with CIO at 3 months and again at 4 months per our pediatrician's recommendation. Failed miserably. She was really hungry and wouldn't stop crying for like 2 hours. We tried again at 6 months and it worked really well. I think she was ready at that point to drop that feed. It only took one night...of course we messed it up by going on vacation last weekend and I haven't fixed it yet.
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My LO is 4.5 months and will sleep 9 hours, wake once to feed, and then two more hours. She's EBF so I don't know exactly how much she eats, but she wakes up screaming and just wants to eat. My ped encouraged me to feed her and not worry about dropping that feed until 6 months at the earliest. I also don't mind one feed, so long as she goes back to sleep right after, which she does.
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