When may I increase it to three hours? Usually at eight weeks or two months.
When should I lengthen the interval between feedings? When there is poor stomach digestion.
How is this shown? By habitual vomiting or regurgitation of food long after nursing is finished; also when the baby has a very poor appetite so that it always leaves some of its food.
When can I shorten the intervals? It is not generally advisable to feed any baby oftener than given by this schedule.
REGULAR FEEDING.
How can I teach baby to take regular meals? By commencing at birth to feed at exactly regular hours every day.
Shall I awaken baby to feed it? Yes, for a few days. In a short time he will waken at the same hours himself.
Should this regularity extend through the night? Only up to nine or ten o'clock. After ten let him sleep as long as he will.
How soon can baby go without food from 10 p. m. to 7 a. m.? At four months usually and always at five or six months; night feeding causes restlessness and poor sleep.