Besides struggling recently with secret eating, I also still haven’t quite worked out about what to do about getting hungry during the night while I’m up with Ryland.

My 3 basic choices are

1. Eat extra right before bed even though I’m not hungry at the time.
2. Eat a snack in the middle of the night whenever I do get hungry.
3. Just tough it out until morning.

Each of these have problems, though:

1. I don’t like eating when I’m not hungry because that’s something I’ve struggled with as long as I can remember. Also, sometimes it’s still not enough and I still get hungry during the night.
2. This means I’ll miss out on more sleep because if it’s something to prepare, I’ll have to wait until after I’m done feeding Ryland before I eat. Then I have to decide to either go back to sleep with gross teeth or brush but miss more sleep.
3. It’s hard to sleep when you’re hungry, and sometimes I’ll get hungry as early as around midnight, which means that the other time or two I have to get up, I’m also hungry.

Do y’all have any other ideas?

Another thing, I’ve been trying to look into ways we can make sure that Ryland is completely healthy even though he is formula fed. Many of the sites I find make it seem like a crime if you do anything but breast feed. I don’t know how much of their info I can trust since they are obviously biased. Does anyone know anything about this?