is this good advice?

[Cass72]

I was given some advice from a couple of friends today when I told them DS is still feeding every 3 hours at night (He's 16 weeks old).......

Can I just say: hahahahahaha!!!! No, I'm not laughing at you.... I'm laughing at me (and it's hysterical manic laughter too)! DS2 is 11 months on Thursday and for the past couple of months he's been waking every 3-4 hours at night for a BF!

I BF on demand when we are at home and of a night (at childcare I give him a BF after lunch and he adapts to that really well). I figure one day soon enough he will sleep through because he won't need a night-time feed. When I hear his little tummy growling there's no way I will deny him a feed. Besides DH could never go 10-11 hours without a feed and I figure our little fella is just like daddy!

I think we are slowly getting back to only waking once but as it is now he has a BF before bed (around 7pm) then wakes around 10ish then around 2ish and then is up and about by 6. Go with what works for you...... someone said, if it ain't broke don't fix it: excellent advice!

[Jellyfish]

16w to me is way too young to be encouraging dropping feeds. Sure if they do it on their own then great but at this age I'd say they need the extra feeds... then again my 22m DD still feeds 2-3 times a night so you could be waiting a while for them to drop night feeding of their own accord hehe.

[LoveLea]

Did you actually ever think of it as a problem before your friends gave you this advice? There is no need to worry about whether other people see what you're doing as a problem, only you. And lets face it, if a bubba wants to feed then there is a reason for it.

Waking 3hrly at 16 weeks is nothing. My DS fed two hrly through the night until about 20 months.

[Cass72]

Jellyfish & LoveLea you aren't giving me any great hope that I could soon be enjoying loooooooong uninterrupted sleeps!

[bec293]

Jellyfish - it is too young to drop feeds.. for some reason people think all that matters is getting more sleep.

LoveLea - thanks, and no I didn't see it as a problem before. Just after having listening to them go on about their perfect sleepers for ages at lunch I started to doubt myself, but have since realised that yes I am still perfectly happy with feeding on demand. I shouldn't have even listened to them, as one of the ladies in particular is doing things I'd never do (extremely early solids etc), so she's not someone I should take advice from.

[LoveLea]

Even when we are perfectly happy, no matter how much we try not to let it, other peoples negativity does creep into our thoughts.

[Cass72]

:yeahthat:

[deletedit]

Dummy won't do it.

I just went through two weeks of feeds slightly more frequent than hourly, with a 9 month old. Fun fun fun.

And he's just gone up from 00 to 0 to prove it.