night feedings
Infant's nocturnal meals
Night feedings are the meals given to an infant during nighttime hours, when babies typically wake to nurse or take a bottle.
The term belongs to the vocabulary of new parenthood, where sleep deprivation and feeding schedules dominate: The pediatrician said we could start dropping night feedings at six months.
Night feedings eventually phase out as babies learn to sleep through the night.
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