Routine or go with the flow?

At 3 months its normal to wake up hungry in the night. He will go the whole night when hes ready.

Personally I think the pattern you have got going on is pretty good and I wouldn't change it. Thats some great sleep during the night even with the wake up and if it were me i'd be reluctant to change it too in fear of distrupting his sleep patterns.

Thanks! I forgot to add, I do have a bit of a routine in my head as I will only feed 3 to 3 1/2 hourly. Problem is he only sleeps for about an hour at a time during the day so sometimes this gets difficult! I am very concious of the snacking and snoozing thing, although really, he is still only snoozing an hour!

Liam is demand fed (though we are heading towards routine) and only sleeps for 45 mins and really about 2-3 hours in the whole day.. so frustrating but he's happy most of the time so Plunket say it's ok:( anyway he sleeps 6-2 then fed and up for day at 6-7am so similar to you and really his feeding is a feed then break then small feed before bed and it's around three hours but i will feed him before if he needs it cause I think he's a bit young to be fully routined yet but that's just me..I let him cry 2-5 mins and that is enough to know if he is going to sleep or not but i refuse to let him CIO.. so if i was you I would just carry on with what you are doing:)

DS who is 3 months sometimes sleeps through the night, other times (like the last 3 nights) he wakes between 4 and 5am for a feed. I feed him between 2-4 hourly during the day.

He had been sleeping through the night for about the last 3 weeks, so Im not sure what has happened to make him wake during the night but Im just going with it at the moment.

During the day he sleeps anywhere from 1 - 3 hours at a time, depending on the time of day. I have had no success with dream feeds either.

Man, how do you get babies to go 3-4 hours between feeds? We might get an interval that long once a day! Not that it really bothers me, in fact it doesn't bother me at all, we just do demand feeding... but no way its every 3 hourly... she does sleep from between 8 and 9pm till between 4am and 6am, then back down till 8ish, so goes a long time at night. She just likes to feed a lot during the day. Probably snack feeds, but I'm not convinced that's a problem?

Ahhh yes, I can see how that would be a problem, glad you got it sorted :)

it sounds like you've already got a nice routine happening and i agree with the others that it is pretty normal at this age for babies to wake during the night for a feed. You can change it for sure, but it'll take a few nights of resettling and then he may make it up during the day. Or not! What works for some babies really doesn't for everyone.

The question i guess is are you coping ok with the sleep you are getting? Try not to think too much about the lucky buggers whose baby sleeps 11 hrs at this age. Babies have different needs.

You could try getting an extra feed in there at 7pm or 10pm or both and see if it helps. He's gotta get those calories so adding an extra feed in could get him to sleep through on his own. Then if no luck reevaluate when you aren't coping.

My first boy i got to that not coping stage at about 16 weeks i think and he was waking up not really that hungry at 7am. So i stopped the night feeds cold turkey. DH resettled him for a few nights and that was it, no more night feeds ever. He just drank more by day.
Some babies do it on their own others need a bit of a nudge, it doesn't have to mean using cio to do so though.