when does the duration of time increase between feedings?

my boys are 8 weeks and still eating every 3 hours. at night sometimes every 4.
when does it increase and is every 3 hours normal?

 

Every 3 hours during the day was normal for my two until they were probably around 7 months. At night, by that point they were sleeping through, so they went much longer. I always just let them set the pace for nights.

 

ugh. im dying for them to sleep longer, lol.

 

my boys went to every 3 1/2 hour around 6 months and by 7 months they were every 4. we're still on a 4 hour feeding schedule. they've been STTN since about 4 months.

 

Mine did every 3 hours until they were 8 weeks old and then they started to go longer at nights...eventually they started STTN but still ate every 3 hours during the day for several months after that.

 

We kept the 3hrs through the day and still do (sometimes 3hr30) but let them dictate after thed 10pm or 11pm feed and at that age they could go about 6hrs increasing to 9 around 12wks.

 

Mine stopped eating at night around 3m but they at every 3 hours between 6am and 7pm until a few weeks ago when I added a 3rd square meal a day. So now we do 3 meals, 4 bottles and snacks

 

Mine started sleeping about 6-8 hrs at night around 2.5 months, but still eat every 3 hrs during the day. At shortly after 3 months they were sleeping 10-12 hrs overnight and still eat every 3 hrs during the day. They get 5 bottles between 9:30am and 10:30 pm, and one solids meal.

 

I tried so hard to get mine to stretch to 4 hours, but they would still act like they were starving sometimes after 2.5 hours. They started doing really well going every 4 hours around 3 months.

 

I am new here also. My twin girls are 10 weeks old and I started trying 4 hours last week, no luck. But they are goind 3 1/2 hours during the day and 4 hours at night. The problem with that is it is always at a different time so you need to remember what time they ate last. I think that one of them would go longer then the other but I want to keep them on the same schedule.
Good luck

 

Around 4 months my girls started to sometimes go about 4 hours during the day (I'm a combo schedule/demand feeder) and were sleeping from about 9:30 - 5 at night, but then they got more active and since then we are pretty much back to every 3 hours during the day (on rare occasions--if a nap runs long-- they will go 4 hours), and for the last few weeks they've been waking up once in the middle of the night to eat too (they now sleep 7 - 6 with a feed about 1). However, for the longest time I had long nursers. It would take me at least 45 minutes to do a feeding (I fed them together)--they would need a couple burps, relatching, etc. I got lots of reading in (I highly recommend the Twilight series!) during that time. Over the last few weeks, their nursing time has declined and as many people have stated in other forums, now I'm lucky to get 10 minutes out of them (bye bye reading!), so even though they still feed often, it doesn't take as long.

 

My LO's stretched their feeding time during the day from 3 hr to 4 hr by themselves at around 4 months old (they started their solid at around that age, so I trully think the solid food did it). They stop eating at night around 3 months old.