Wakes up middle of the night

↑ imaima

Thu, Jan 02 2025, 4:12 am

redlady123 wrote:

you think she is still hungry? she eats about ounces there is a 4 hour stretch because she isnt hungry to eat before then.. I give her chicken soup since that is what my dr reccomended. I give ehr prunes and pairs too blended.
I see a bunch of different opinions here not sure which to take. Should I maybe add more solids in between a morning feeding?maybe I should wait for my 6 month checkup to ask dr. Today I gave her mashed up banana in between morning feeding so I can see how that goes.I was thinking to do rice cereal by bedtime? I breatfeed but itd all pumped bottles how often is she supposed to eat it used to be 3 hours now its 4. If she was hungry during the day she lets me know.

Give her milk period. I don’t see any different opinions here. Solids before 1 are for play not for food. You are starving her both in the night and during the day. If she wakes up in the night give her a bottle or nurse.

amother

↑ Hibiscus

Thu, Jan 02 2025, 7:57 am

redlady123 wrote:

so you think I should give her more milk or another solid meal?

Please give her more breastmilk or formula.
Why are you giving her so much real food? She doesn't need it at this age yet & isn't making her full enough. You can give solids/real food IN ADDITION to her regular feedings of breastmilk/formula. Not instead of.

amother

cornflower

Thu, Jan 02 2025, 9:21 am

I think call your doctor now and ask-you don't have to wait a month.

In terms of eating at night, it's normal for a 5 month old to wake up at least once a night. You should offer your baby a bottle/nurse when they wake up.
In terms of solid foods during the day, my doctor says to start offering some baby food at 4 months once a day and gradually increasing to twice a day. It's not to fill them up, just give them the experience of eating. By 6 months it should be twice a day and increasing to 3 times a day by 9 months. (But still most of the nutrition is from formula or breastmilk.)

amother

Azure

Thu, Jan 02 2025, 10:16 am

redlady123 wrote:

My 5 month old recently is acting up in the middle of the night. For a little while she would go to sleep at 730 and wake up at 5 to eat now she sometimes wakes up earlier screaming to breast feed sometimes I let her cry and sometimes I give in. I really would want her to sleep 730 to 7 or something like that. She eats in the morning when she gets up or in middle of night too then again at 11 and then 3 and then 530 chicken soup and then at 7 last feeding (all pumped milk). Do you think shes hungry? she eats between 7-8 ounces. Should I put rice milk in her last feeding? what should I do to get her slepe better?

definitely do baby cereal, it will keep your baby full for longer. I do this for the feeding right before bed. what you can also do is a dream feed, which is basically feed her at 11 pm, or whenever you are about to go to sleep. this way her 7 hour stretch is when u are sleeping too.