Question about STTN

DD is 4 1/2 months old and goes to bed at 8 and wakes up anywhere between 3-4 am for a bottle and will go back down to about 6. I am VERY fortunate that she sleeps long stretches!
At 3/4 am she will finish an entire bottle - about 7/8oz EASILY!! She goes to bed with a full stomach - cereal and a bottle. If she's this hungry at 3/4am, will she ever skip that bottle and sleep a little later? Do they eventually grow out of needing that extra feeding??

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is it possible to put dd to bed a little later or maybe squeeze in a bit more bottle to hold her over until 6?

Once ds slept a few nights through from 9-7 i stopped middle of the night bottles.

we had to cio a little, but he got used to it within a few weeks..

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ds started giving that bottle up at about 6 months...when he started eating more during the day and i also startedwaiting to see if he would fall back asleep

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DD is 7 1/2 months and is still needing that early morning feeding BUT, we are about to start with chicken and pastina, so I am crossing my fingers that that does the trick!

My guess is that your DD may still need that extra feeding, but may be able to sleep just a little bit later before waking up (DD will go to sleep around 7:30-8:00 and wake at 5 for that feeding, then go back to sleep until about 7:30).

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Yes kaydyn did the same thing from about 6 weeks on...she generally just woke up once a night and most times would down an entire bottle before falling back to sleep.

She started waking later and later until she was waking around 4:30/5 and I was getting up for work at 6:30/7 and was exhausted b/c her last bottle was around 10pm.

At 8 months we did CIO and after 2 nights she slept through the night for about 12 hours.

As she get a little older she may be able to do longer stretches for you and eventually STTN completely.

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My DD sounds similar. At 4 mo, she was going to bed at 7 and waking around 2:30-4 for a bottle. She also sucked it down. She would then wake around 6:30-7 for the day.

Recently I have been giving her fruit and she now sleeps until 5:30-6 and then goes back down until about 8. She is 6 mo.

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My only advice would be to pack in more ounces during the day and delay bed time as long as possible. If you keep the bed time at 7PM then I would sneak in a dream feed around 10PM. My DD has been STTN since 5 weeks old with these strategies.

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At 4 1/2 months my DD was up 2 sometimes 3 times a night to eat, I think that is totally normal, they are growing at a record speed and their stomach is small. I couldn't force DD to take more during the day, she took what she could and then would just wake in the middle of the night to eat more.

It will come!

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Posted by karanthony

At 4 1/2 months my DD was up 2 sometimes 3 times a night to eat, I think that is totally normal, they are growing at a record speed and their stomach is small. I couldn't force DD to take more during the day, she took what she could and then would just wake in the middle of the night to eat more.

It will come!