MOTN
Also called motn, middle of the night, middle-of-the-night, MOTN feed
MOTN stands for middle of the night, the shorthand parents use for the feeds and wake-ups that fall between bedtime and morning. It usually sits in front of another word, as in a MOTN feed or a MOTN wake-up.
How it's said
I'm wondering if anyone out there experienced/experiences insomnia after feeding your baby in the MOTN?
Every MOTN wake-up, I look longingly over at DH's side of the bed where he's sleeping so peacefully, seemingly undisturbed by the baby's snort-cry-scream.
...a couple of times he STTN with no MOTN feeding.
Who says it
Where it came from
MOTN is typed shorthand from online parenting boards. By 2013 parents on baby boards were asking how to drop the MOTN feeding, and by 2015 they were running polls on what time the last MOTN feed fell.