Breastfeeding moms, is your 5.5 month old still waking for a middle of the night feed?

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Yes, but no ugh! It is biologically normal for them to wake during the night.

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We dream feed her before we go to bed, so she's not waking but still eating. Made a huge difference.

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Depends for us...Sometimes she gets up once in the night (night being between 9 pm and 6 am), but if I can feed her when I go to bed at 11 pm, she sometimes sleeps until 6:30ish. Changes in their schedule is normal, and some babies just need the extra calories at night if they are too distracted during the day to feed efficiently. I'm hoping this distraction phase is done soon though. I'm not willing to do strict schedules or cry it out or formal sleep training, but we're slowly adding sleep associations, so it's gotten a bit easier since trying that.

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We are trying a new thing now, supplimenting in a formula feed at 10pm. My little man just falls asleep on the boob and doesn't drink enough. He ends up waking up every hour or 2 and it is killing me. I start work again this week and i have no idea how i am going to handle it on this broken sleep.

Breastfeeding moms, is your 5.5 month old still waking for a middle of the night feed?

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