6 Month Old Baby Bottle At Night

Keep cutting back every few days until she s ready to give it up.

6 month old baby bottle at night.

By the age of six months many babies don t need the bedtime bottle for nourishment and by the age of nine months very few need the extra calories and nutrients offered by the bedtime bottle. Breast fed infants tend to take longer up to a year of age. Experts agree that if your baby is younger than 6 months old you should feed him whenever he wakes at night. 10 30 am nurse bottle once up from the nap naps usually range from 30 mins to 1 hour at this age.

Overnight try cutting down on nursing time. But once he s past the 6 month marker skip the midnight snack. The goal is to separate eating from going to sleep so that if your toddler does wake up at night he won t need your breast or a bottle to get back to sleep. Many babies will be able to sleep for 6 to 8 hours straight when they reach 3 months old but then hit a growth spurt at approximately 3 1 2 to 4 months of age.

The american academy of pediatrics recommends exclusive breastfeeding for six months with the addition of complementary foods continuting up to a year or longer as desired by mother and infant. If she usually feeds for twenty minutes during the night give her fifteen.