My 12 week twins are distressed at their 6pm feed My two identical twin boys Oliver and George are 12 weeks old. Until recently my husband has been able to get back in time to help me with bath time and the 6.15pm feed, but because of work commitments he will now be unable to do so. My boys get very frantic from about 30 minutes after the 5pm feed, and have recently started getting so cross and tired, that I am struggling to calm them down enough to take their feed after bath time. I initially tried feeding them both in their car seats so that I didn’t miss…

How can I get my eight-week-old daughter to take bigger feeds in the day? I have two problems. I have been following the routine for five weeks, and while I have needed to adapt it slightly to suit my daughter, she is still feeding very little and only manages short naps during the day. She settles at 7pm, and although she needs to cry herself to sleep, she is down until I wake her for her 10:30pm feed. Lately she has been waking much earlier for her middle of the night feed and will only take 1oz. I don’t want to drop this feed as she only grazes through the…

How do I move from breast to bottle feeding? I have a 10-week-old baby boy, Ayton. He weighed 9lb 6oz at birth and has gained 8oz each week and is now 13lb 6oz. I have been breastfeeding him, and giving him a bottle of formula at the 10:30pm feed. He does seem to be a hungry baby, and I have been worrying that I’m not producing enough milk for him (despite knowing he is gaining the right amount of weight!) I have twice followed the plan to increase my milk supply, which seems to work for a short while before it seems to decrease again. I am also giving him…

How do I get my baby to take more milk during the day? My baby, Mia, is nine weeks old and weighs 11lb 8oz. The problem is that her milk intake is falling. She used to take 5-6oz each feed, but now it is only 2-4oz; she is exclusively formula-fed. I can cope with her feeding during the day, even if she only takes small amounts, but she has now started waking at 2am screaming for food. I know this is because she doesn’t take enough during the day, but I can’t encourage her to drink any more at the daytime feeds. I have tried offering cool boiled water during…

How can I get my 11 week old more interested in his daytime feeds? My son Sean, who is almost 12 weeks old, has become uninterested in some daytime feeds. He was taking 5-6ozs at 7am, 11am, 5/6pm and 11pm. But suddenly in his tenth week he began to take only 3.5ozs at the above times and refused any more. I would burp him, change him and let him have a good kick before offering the second half. He would refuse it (screaming) whereas he always used to finish the last 3ozs. So his milk intake dropped from 35-37ozs to 28-30oz which is below the recommended amount for his weight…

My 12 week daughter has started to refuse to finish her bottle feeds I cannot get Anna to take the remainder of her feed any more. She has been happily feeding from a bottle since she was two weeks old. For the last ten days she will have half a feed (80mls) then refuse to have any more. I try and try over the next two hours to get her to take more, and eventually she will have taken 120mls. I start everyday afresh as I know that she is hungry having fed 3.5-4.5 hours before, but even then the problem is the same. By bedtime the problem is worse…

At 9 weeks my baby is drinking excessive amounts of milk JJ is a very good baby, however he is a hungry one. Since birth he has always had more formula than the amount given on the tin. He takes 100-150mls extra a day. At present he is already drinking 200mls at most feeds and his intake is still increasing. I have two problems I would like to solve. Firstly, his 10pm feed, at which he is awake for 1 hour, is his smallest feed of the day. He would take no more than 160mls and was then regularly sleeping through to 3.30am when I would give him a quick…

My 8-week-old won’t take enough at feeds by day now she is sleeping through My daughter has been on the routines since she was 2 weeks old and has been a dream baby since then – she really is very contented. She has been sleeping through the night since she was 7 weeks old; she generally gets to between 6am and 6.45am from around 11.30pm. Obviously we were delighted and amazed by this as it was very early. The problem is that this seems to throw the daytime routine out. We either feed her at 6am and put her back down until 7.30am when we try and feed her again,…

How big a feed does my 8-week-old son need now he sleeps longer at night? My 8-week-old son has started to stretch out his nights, and is now waking at approx 4.30am. However, I am a little confused on whether I should give him a half- or full feed at this point. I am currently giving him between 2-3ozs when he wakes in the night; he will then take about 3oz at 7am. I have to wake him at 7am for this feed and prior to his night lengthening he was taking 5-6oz. Once he has the 2-3oz at 4:30am he will go back to sleep; last night he made…

My 12 week baby is uninterested in her milk and is slow to gain weight My daughter has never been a great feeder and is quite inconsistent with the amount of milk that she takes at each feed. I have followed the CLB advice and continued to split the 5pm feed which works well. I also give her half her feeds and a good 15-20 minutes inbetween before giving her the rest, however she is still only able to take 4 or 5oz maximum per feed. Her weight gain has not been great since she started on formula at 2-weeks-old and she has only been putting on between 2-4 oz…