The last week or two, she’s mostly been following a schedule of going to bed at 7-8, sleeping until 4-5, having a feed, then going back to sleep until around 7. She’s been occasionally waking up and wailing, but if we wait she usually puts herself back to sleep. Last night she woke up around midnight and wailed for a while. She didn’t seem to be going back to sleep, so I made up a 3oz bottle and went in to her. She guzzled it, in a way I haven’t seen her do since she was about a month old — we’ve long had a problem with her being unwilling to suck, but apparently she knows how to suck fine, she just chooses not to. Last night, after a day of lousy meals, she was hungry and so she sucked. She finished that bottle and most of another 3oz bottle, but then got sleepy and pushed the bottle away. She went back to sleep pretty quickly.
So it looks like we need to go back to night feeding, especially since she hasn’t been eating that well during the day. We had also dumped the bottle in favor of a sippy cup, but maybe that was a mistake too.
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