night feeding

essey1234

Hi all,

Baby is 8 months now and is a great napper and a great sleeper but still wakes at least once or twice a night to eat. 

She should have enough to get her throught the night and since my son used to take a paci it was very easy to wean him from the night bottle.

Lucy does not take a pacifier, any suggestions, just let her cry it out? feed her less every night until she weans herself??

Help please

hepcats

Are you BFing or FFing? If you are BFing then you can try to wean her by minimizing the time by 5 minutes every few days.if you are FFing, you can reduce the bottles by 1/2 ounce every few days. Do this until you get down to 5 min BF or 3 oz FF and then cease altogether. She will eventually just eat more throughout the day. GL!

JsMama11

Same boat here.....J definitley has a night feeding "habit". Luckily he STTN 75% of the time but the other 25% he wakes up between 1-3am and demands a bottle. The paci just makes him cry louder. We have only been giving him 2oz at night for the past two weeks but it's not getting better. Last night I gave him the  2oz and he started crying for more. I got him out of bed and started pointing out some stuffed animals on his shelf and poof - he stopped crying because he was distracted. This is how I know its a habit and not hunger. Not sure where we'll go from here, I'm hoping he'll just grow out of it.