5 month olds question...

I need a sanity check...

1. What time does your LO's go to sleep for the night?
2. How many oz's are their nighttime bottle?
3. Do you do a dreamfeed? If so, what time? How many oz's?
4. How many times, if any, do you LO's wake up to be fed at night after their last bottle (not counting the dreamfeed, if you do one)?

Here are my answers:
1. 7pm
2. 6 to 7 oz.'s
3. No...thinking I might start to try and eliminate the 1:30/2;30 feed.
4. Wake up like 2 times B4 midnight fussing...usually will fall back asleep. Wakes to be fed between 1:30 and 2;30am.

 

At five months:
1. 7:30-8:00pm
2. 6-7 oz.
3. Never did a dreamfeed.
4. My boys slept through the night at 4 months from 7:30-5-6:00am. Now they sleep until 6-7am.

 

1. Our LOs get their last bottle between 7:15 - 7:45 (depending on when their last naps were).

2. Their bedtime bottle has 6.5/7oz (our boy gets 7 and our daughter gets 6.5).

3. We do not dreamfeed. I tried it a few times when they were younger and it didn't work for us.

4. They each wake up between 4am - 5am when we give them 5 and 6 oz respectively (our daughter gets 5 and our son gets 6). They then go back to sleep until 6:30am-7:00am.

 

I need a sanity check...

1. What time does your LO's go to sleep for the night? DD anywhere between 7 and 8. Normally closer to 7. DS oh boy its all over the board...Usually BY 9 though but its on the couch with me and i put him down when I go upstairs. If I put him down sooner whether he is out or not, he wakes up
2. How many oz's are their nighttime bottle? they eat between 5-7
3. Do you do a dreamfeed? If so, what time? How many oz's? i have occassionly but it does nothing for us the times we did it. it worked ONCE so I do not see hte need in doing it
4. How many times, if any, do you LO's wake up to be fed at night after their last bottle (not counting the dreamfeed, if you do one)? usually once and they down the bottle dry so i havent tried to break them of this bottle

 

1. My girls are in bed between 7 and 8pm every night. My goal would be for them to go to bed at 8, but I would say its closer to 7:15 most of the time.
2. I nurse before bed so I am no help here!
3. I used to dreamfeed, but it did not help.
4. Around 5 1/2 months they started STTN. One would sleep from 7:15pm-4:00am, wake to eat, then go back to sleep until 7. The other does the same but her feed is closer to 5:30. The past two nights, the later sleeper hasn't woken until 7.

From experience, I now understand why many moms on here recommend waiting until 6 months to CIO. I did use the ferber method to get them to go down to sleep alone for naps and bed, but we did not CIO. Now we are STTN and going down for naps and bed without being rocked. It was worth the wait (even though at the time I felt like crying!)

Good luck!

 

My two were going to bed around 8 at that age. They were getting a 6-7 oz bottle, no dreamfeed, and were waking to eat again once during the night.

 

We just started a new schedule in hopes of getting ourselves a few minutes of peace and quiet as well as time to take care of household things and last night was night #3 and so far so good.

1. New bedtime is right after their last feed which I try to keep on schedule for 8:30 so in bed by about 8:50 (used to be after their last bottle at about 10 so bed at 10:30 or 11 and was just getting to be too much!)

2. Babies are nursed during the day but get one 5 oz bottle at 8:30 (will be switching to 6 oz tonight)

3. No dreamfeed

4. On our new schedule they have been waking at 4ish to eat again and then nursed and back to sleep til 9ish (old schedule was feed at 6 or 7) they are also still swaddled and that might make a difference in their non-night waking if that's a word lol.

Good luck! I know I said to hubby last night, holy crap look at us sitting her eating cookies on the couch with no kids!!! That hasn't happened since the twins were born! My ds is a fusser so we still have to go put a paci back in about 4 times after he's put to sleep but the earlier bedtime has actually helped lessen what we called his freak-outs which used to happen around 9:30 to 10:30 and lasted while he was trying to fall asleep as well. I hope I didn't just jinx it heehee.

 

My LO's aren't quite 5 months old yet but here is mine:

1. What time does your LO's go to sleep for the night? Between 9:30-10:00
2. How many oz's are their nighttime bottle? 6-7oz
3. Do you do a dreamfeed? If so, what time? How many oz's? No dream feed
4. How many times, if any, do you LO's wake up to be fed at night after their last bottle (not counting the dreamfeed, if you do one)? My LO's usually sleep till about 6:30-7:30. They have been sleeping all night for about a month now.

 

1. What time does your LO's go to sleep for the night?
7:30 p.m. (start the process at 7:00)
2. How many oz's are their nighttime bottle?
8 ounces
3. Do you do a dreamfeed? If so, what time? How many oz's?
no dreamfeed
4. How many times, if any, do you LO's wake up to be fed at night after their last bottle (not counting the dreamfeed, if you do one)?
one baby generally makes it through to 6:30 a.m., the other gets up around 4 about 50% of the time (I am going to break this habit, but they have stuffy noses at the moment and I'm going to wait until we are 100%)

 

1. What time does your LO's go to sleep for the night? Between 9:30-10pm
2. How many oz's are their nighttime bottle? 6-7oz
3. Do you do a dreamfeed? If so, what time? How many oz's? We don't do a dreamfeed
4. How many times, if any, do you LO's wake up to be fed at night after their last bottle (not counting the dreamfeed, if you do one)? They STTN until about 7:30-8:30am and may wake up a couple of times during the night but go right back to sleep after I put their pacifiers back in their mouths

 

Mine aren't 5 months yet, but here is our schedudle and reading everyone elses posts makes want to cry...

I need a sanity check...

1. What time does your LO's go to sleep for the night? 7pm
2. How many oz's are their nighttime bottle? 6oz
3. Do you do a dreamfeed? If so, what time? How many oz's? We don't do dreamfeed.
4. How many times, if any, do you LO's wake up to be fed at night after their last bottle (not counting the dreamfeed, if you do one)? Oh here is the fun part. Matthew will wake up at around 2am, than 5am and wake up around 7am, he takes 6oz at each feed. Brandon, he will wake up either at 11 or midnight than every 3 hrs, he will take anywhere from 4 to 6oz. The sad part is he wakes up between feedings for no reason, I can't count how many times at night I sooth him to sleep. I don't think I will be getting any sleep any time soon. :grr: