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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do not let my babies go more than 3 hours between feedings during the day until they sleep through the night. So at that age, with that wake window, I’d be feeding as soon as baby woke up (let’s say it’s 11am), then putting her down for a nap at a little after noon, and if she was still sleeping at 2pm, I’d wake her to eat again. That gets you 5 daytime feedings, plus I do a dreamfeed, so six feedings plus however many times baby wakes at night. Might be seven if baby eats more like every 2-2.5 hours (thus taking five naps instead of 4). Most babies are ready for six feeds a day (so sleeping 8-10 hrs) between 12 and 17 weeks. If they haven’t dropped the final night feeding by 4 months (about 17 weeks), I’ll wean it deliberately.

The key to getting this all to work is FULL FEEDS, not packing in extra “snack” feeds.

I don’t move to multiple feedings in a wake window until the fourth nap is dropped, around 4 months. Then baby gets a feed after third nap, has the longest wake window of the day, and eats again right before bed.[/quote]

If your kids were sleeping 10 hours at 12 weeks you were extremely, extremely lucky. This is not the norm. [/quote]

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