Advice on night weaning?

bensmommy518

I have been BF DD since she as born and she has always nursed several times at night. I am getting pretty fed up with it since I also work full time. Some nights she still gets up every 2-3 hours and some night she can go 5-8 hours before wanting to nurse. She eats three meals a day and snacks so I really don't think she is hungry at night, I think it is more for comfort than anything.

If I am going to night wean would people suggest I do it cold turkey (no nursing for any reason from bedtime to morning time) or should I do it gradual ( tonight she has to go 5 hours, tomorrow 6 hours etc).

What did other people do? What should I expect as far as his long it will take her to catch on to the new routine? I feel like a FTM with weaning becaus I never got this far with DS (dried up by 10 months) so weaning wasn't an issue.

versed

I used dr Jay Gordon's night weaning method with DS1 successfully at 14m. I've heard many have been successful with his method:

https://drjaygordon.com/attachment/sleeppattern.html

holly142

Most nights DD nurses 2 times.  When she is teething even more often.  Every once in a while she will nurse only once and I get hopeful.  A few people told me that their babies stopped nursing in the night around their first birthday.  I am really hopeful that DD will do this, but I'm not holding my breath.  I am going to give her 1 more month and then try something.  Good luck! 

Mandii385

Not quite sure how it happens for us, once we moved dd in her own room she pretty much stopped waking up. When she did get up I sent DH in there to rub her back and soothe her till she fell back asleep. Now she usually slees through the night and only occasionally gets up once a night to eat.

bensmommy518

Thanks for everyone's responses.  She is still in our room (need to finsih painting and setting up DS room before we can move her) and I know that is part of the problem.  She is a light sleeper and I swear she has night vision so if she wakes up and sees me it is all over.  I am not proud of it but there have been times I have hid under the covers when I hear her waking only an hour after feeding her and she is able to go back to sleep then.  I have tried having DH get her when she wakes up but she is a mamma girl through and through and wants nothing to do with daddy in the middle of the night.