Can he do a full night of 12hrs sleep?

Well, that’s the question.

Over the past week or two, Claire has been reducing the amount of milk that we give Jack for his 10:00pm feed.

To reiterate what we’re doing, he has a full bottle of around 200mls at 6:00pm and then we’re putting him to bed almost straight away, after changing his bum first of course!

Normally, we’re letting him sleep until 10:00pm and then getting him up but not trying to actively wake him up – what I mean, is that we’re not talking to him, or letting him play with toys, etc, but merely getting him up and out of bed enough to feed him a bottle. Then, once he’s had it, around half ten-ish, we’d put him straight back to bed where he’d sleep until around 5:45am-6:00am.

So, as I was saying at the very top of this blog-post… we’ve been reducing the amount that he is being given for his 10:00pm feed, right down to around 90mls last night. It has meant that he has been making up for it during the day, as his drinking quota has increased enough to cater for it. (Yes, we’re still writing down the amounts that he has! Yes, we’re sad. But yes, we know exactly what he’s had and whether he needs more, so are we really that daft? Maybe not.)

But tonight is going to be the first night that we’re going to let him sleep without having any milk at 10:00pm. I am expecting to have to get up in the night to feed him, but we’ll see…! He might be ok… Last night, when I tried to give him his 90ml bottle at 10:00pm, he only drank half of it and even turned the rest away, meaning that he did the whole of last night on about 45mls, so is it really too much to expect?

Either way, if it doesn’t happen tonight, maybe in a few nights time, or next week?

I’ll let you know tomorrow evening, if I can.