My son is 4 1/2 months old, when do the night time feedings stop?

Question

My son is 4 1/2 months old, I was wondering when the night time feedings should stop. We started the Ferber Method two nights ago and he always seems to scream at the top of his lungs at 12:00am. He goes to bed at 7:30 after eating 5oz. I just ask myself if he is hungry. HELP should he require a night time feeding?

Answer 1

If your baby is hungry feed your baby. They say babies can nutritionally sleep through the night (MEANING 6-8) hours at that age.

Can is a long way from must or even should. Once upon a time *can* meant you no longer had to wake them once they were a certain age IF they slept through. Now everyone thinks it means every child can and should. You need to take into account how much your baby eats during the day. How much they eat in one sitting and how fast they are growing.

Around 4 months babies start to do more, and therefore eat less during the day. They are also more physically active ergo they need more calories.

Respect your baby enough to feed him when he is hungry.

Answer 2

some babies need the nightime feeding until their first birthday. you know your babies cries by now, if he is hungry then feed him. use your ferber book to balance out your washer and do what you know is best. that's all any parent can do. i don't think you should rush in everytime he makes a sound but if you're listening to him scream for more than 10-15 mins at this age go to him! he's too young. most dr's reccomend starting the let them cry it out after 6 months. feed him and put him right back to bed. you can even feed him in the room with lights off in a rocker and then straight back to bed and if he cries then well you'll know he's not hungry and won't have to worry. being a new parent is stressful enough why add to it? just enjoy it now, they grow up all too soon.

Answer 3

Will she go down without swaddling? She might be ready to make the change and go into free sleep. Other than that, can you co-sleep with her? I co-sleep with my son. He hasn't slept through the night since he was 3 months old. He started doing it at 2 months and did it for a month and I thought that he was a miracle child but nope. He has done it a few days over the last 8 months but nothing consistent. I am exhausted too.

Answer 4

My dd is soon2b 5 months old and she usually awakens about 1-2 times per night. It just depends upon the child as each one is different. I have even given her cereal and veggies before bedtime with her bedtime bottle and it done no good. She has slept all night a couple times but not too often. Never heard of the Ferber method.

Answer 5

Dr. Leila Denmark, the oldest and most well renowned pediatrician in the world (she will be 109 years old next mo.) taught that your baby can begin to sleep thru the nite the first week after birth. My last 2 did this, including 12 newborns that I fostered along with the all of my babies born in our family and thousands who visited Dr. Denmark. On the gentle schedule that she taught me the last feeding came at 10pm. Place the baby down for the nite and feed her again at 6 am. Wow, it couldn't get any easier than this. Having babies in the house was so easy and the baby was so relaxed and well rested along with being healthy and thriving. Listen to everyone, but then always make up your own mind. Ask parents who have done it right. God Bless.

Answer 6

The feeding's stop in the middle of the night when the baby starts taking 8 oz before bed, unless they still need more, but most stop at about 6-8 months old. Keep breathing it will be alright. This is normal.

Answer 7

I am not familiar with the ferber method but any method used to try and control or routine when a baby should eat/sleep etc goes agianst your babies unique needs.

I know sleep deprivation is a killer, but if your baby is screaming feed him hon. Forget everything anyone tells you about control crying, spoiling a child by picking him up.

LISTEN TO YOUR INTUITION. if you allow your self to listen to your intution you will always make the right desicion for your baby, even if you are doing everything different to what the ''experts'' say you are the mother and so have been given the inner wisdom to know what is best for your unique little baby.

Babies have different needs, and seeing as they are programmed to double their birth wieght in the first 6 months, no wonder they keep us up so many times at night... but if you try to schedule his feeds you could impede in his natural need to double his weight.

And answer to your question it is very NORMAL for babies to wake up for a feed right up to and after their 1st birthday.
Feed him as much as he needs sweet you are doing a great job, its tough to know what is the right thing to do, but listen to your heart it knows best..

all the best

Answer 8

try to feed the baby late at night , and make sure the baby is comfortable (change the nappy, etc) before he sleeps so that he wont have any cause to wake up at night. If ithis training continues for some time, the baby will get used to it, in notime. I believe if u do this training for 4-6 weeks, it would have stopped.Better to stick to breast feeding at night. it makes babies sleep better

Answer 9

well first off it varies from child to child. some sleep through at 2 months others not till they are 1 or even later.
letting your baby scream is not the answer though. its so cruel. a sweet trusting baby and no one responds when it communicates the only way it knows how...how distressing would that be to you? imagine being in a foreign country and needing help desperately and no one knows what you are saying and are jsut ignoring you...not to much different from a nonverbal infant.

Answer 10

hi there, my daughter is 5 1/5 months and she has slept thru the night since she was 2 1/2, we put a teaspoon of farex in her bottle just before we put her to bed and it has worked very well...(our doctor said it was a great idea)
it just fills the little one up a bit more and she loves it...she also has a small amount of real food 1/2 hr before her bottle.. or your son could be teething.. does he always puts his hands in his mouth as thats a sure sign, some babies start teething at birth..(like our now 3 yr old) that is harsh not just for the bub...hope i have been a little help and good luck...