4 month old bottle fed baby

Do you have your baby on a schedule of feedings or is it still basically whenever the baby is hungry? How many bottles/ounces does your baby take a day. My daughter is trying to get the baby down for the night earlier and is trying to figure out how to space out the bottles. She was giving her the last bottle around 11, putting her down for the night by midnight. She's now going in around 10:45. She wants to make sure she has enough so that she'll continue STTN. She's been waking around 7:30am. What time do you put your LO down for the night?

Message edited 2/22/2011 10:20:39 PM.

Re: 4 month old bottle fed baby

DD will be 3 months on the 9th and is on a pretty good schedule.

9am- 6oz
1pm- 6oz
5pm- 6oz
9pm- 6oz
5am- 6oz

This is all give or take a half hour. She is usually very consistent. I am hoping when she is a lil older she will drop the 5am feeding but then I would expect jer to go to 9am anymore.

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My boys will be 4 months on Friday

6:30a: 7oz
9:30a: 6.5 oz
12:30p: 6.5 oz
3:30p: 6.5 oz
6:45p: 8oz
They go to bed around 7pm and sleep until 6:30a on a good night.

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DS is 4 months today and has been sleeping through the night for almost 2 months now.
6 am - 6 oz
9am - 6 oz
12pm - 6oz
4pm - 6oz
6pm - 6oz

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It's hard to remember how much DD was drinking back then - I think she had 7 bottles, probably 5 ounces mostly and a little bigger before bed. I do remember though that I did not do anything special to her bedtime - I watched her cues and she gradually just started getting sleepy earlier and so we put her down earlier - went from 11 to 7:30/8 within a couple of months I think. She did it on her own as she lengthened her nighttime stretch.

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forgot to add that he goes to bed at around 8 to 8:30

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At 4 mo DD was BF 3 times a day and taking 3 7oz bottles. She would go to sleep at 8 or 8:30 and wake up between 6:30 and 7.

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Our daughter is about 4 and half months. At our 3 month appointment, our peditrician had us do a bottle at 8:30 am, 12:30, 4:30, and 8:30 She also started us on ceral (2 tablespoons). At 4 months, she had us stay on the same schedule. She added a new fruit every 3 days. Our schedule looks like this:

8:30- 2 tbs ceral with fruit(stage1) and 6 and 1/2 ounces formula

12:30 6 1/2 ounces formula

4:30 6 1/2 ounces

8:30 2 tbs ceral with fruit(stage1) and 6 and 1/2 ounces formula

We finally get her in her crib by 9:15/9:30 and she sleeps until about 7:30. However, over the past 3 days she has been giving us trouble going down.

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