Post by angiekay84 on Jan 28, 2013 22:16:52 GMT -5
When is baby's last bottle? Do you give them one before bed? We have, but my DH thinks that we should stop making the bottle right before bed because then she will be used to it. She doesn't need it to sleep (doesn't get one before naps), but it seems too early to eliminate it. What do you do?
M usually goes to bed at 930. She eats every 3hrs which can get delayed due to a nap sometimes. But we don't feed her if its after 9pm unless she cries because she's hungry.
Post by imimahoney on Jan 28, 2013 22:19:44 GMT -5
Ari gets 4 bottles at 7ish, 11ish, 3ish and 7ish. The last bottle is in his room, on the glider while he is in his jammies getting him ready for bed. He goes into the crib fully awake so we don't use it to put him to sleep. When we move to 3 bottles we will probably play with the timing of the last bottle but not yet.
K has his last bottle with dinner around 630 and goes to bed around 715. We wake him during the week around 1 am to give him another 5 oz and he goes right back to bed. He doesn't want the bottle but needs those 25 calories.
I split his last bottle so he has some before dinner and some after (bottle at 5, dinner at 6, and whatever he wants to finish with at about 7). Like imimahoney, we put him to sleep fully awake so it's really just a night cap to make sure he's going to bed not hungry. I'd rather get him used to having a bottle before bed than getting used to a bottle in the middle of the night. It's kind of a non-issue for us.
These days the only time he'll take his afternoon and evening bottles in right before nap and bedtime. I'm okay with it, it's part of his bedtime routine, and he goes down easily. He still gets a bottle for MOTN wakeups as needed as well. He's just about to pop through a couple teeth, but once that happens I'm going to try to start weaning him off the night feedings.
I give him one as part of his bedtime routine - so in his Jammies, in the rocker in his room. Then books, songs, and bed. I'm not concerned because he isn't falling asleep on it. The bedtime bottle was the last one we dropped with Henry.
Her last botle is about an hour or hour and a half before bed. I do usually give her what's left though right before bed because she never finishes them.
Post by dixeedeluxe on Jan 29, 2013 10:03:07 GMT -5
Before bed, and then at least one MOTN feeding. No way I'd drop that last bottle for Adeline.
Why does DH think it's such a bad thing to have a bottle (which will eventually just be a cup) before bed? If it's the teeth thing, you can just brush teeth before bed after milk.
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We still do the bottle before bed, and probably will for a while. He only has a little but it's part of the routine. A lot of my friends with older (like 2 year olds) still do a little milk before bed and, like Dixee said, just brush teeth afterwards.
She always gets a bottle after her bath, so it's part of the routine. It's always a 4oz bottle but sometimes she doesn't finish it. She usually falls asleep on it and I continue to rock her for a bit. It's one of my favorite times of the day too. I had not even thought about not giving it to her.
We do a before bed bottle. He gets a bath at 7, a bottle at 7:20, and bed right after.. at 7:30-7:40. I think a full belly helps him feel comfy and content.