| When to Stop Night Feeding?
Just wondering when is a good time to cut out night feeding?
Baby Jeffrey will be 5 months old on 11th November 2004. At the moment, he usually has a proper feed at about 8.30 or 9pm, then goes to bed.
He'll usually wake up at around 1am and 5am to feed. However, the last few nights he has only drunk a couple of ounces at each feed before falling completely back to sleep. Sometimes he can even be rocked back to sleep without eating anything! This has only recently become possible, as in the past he would be too hungry and have to eat his normal amount before we could get him back to sleep.
We hadn't really thought about cutting out night feeds just yet, but one of the formula sales reps called my wife today and mentioned that at his age babies grow the most at night and there is a lot of brain development at this time and said that it is best for the baby to sleep rather than eat and that we should try to cut out the night feeds.
Is this true?
Graham |