cutting out night feeding at 4 months-breastfed LO

coach'swife53 · August 2010

how did ya do it?

how long before successful?

how long is your LO sleeping?

Lux_Diva · August 2010

DS is coming up on 5 months and I am in the process of this so I want to see your replies.

renee*aiden · August 2010

Aiden started to sleep through his night feeding on his own, so i Can't help you there, but he sleeps from 9:30/10:00 til 5 or 6, the other night he had cereal and woke up at 7 when I woke him up to get around to go somewhere...

greengirl0909 · August 2010

I'm still doing the night feeding. My LO eats in about 20 minutes now, is usually up twice between 11 and 6 and I guess I'm just used to it. I read on Kellymom that sometimes babies who aren't getting enough during the day will try to compensate at night. My LO has been refusing bottles at day care so I thought, well he might need to eat at night. GL

MTClaire · August 2010

DD just kind of did it herself. We have always put her down to bed around 10 pm. She went from waking up at 1am and 4am to just waking up at 4am. Now she doesn't wake up until 5:30 or 6, which is perfect for us. I would just try to feed LO a little later and nurse for a longer period of time right before you put him/her down for the night. That's what we did. Good luck!

jilicious · August 2010

I wanted to be baby led on this issue. We we doing a dream feed and LO was getting up steadily later for her final early AM feed, from 4am, to 5am to 5:45am. We dropped the dream feed to see if she'd wake up earlier (I am back at work and it sucked getting up at 5am, 1.45 hours before I had to get up for work) but she still kept getting up around 5am. She finally went to like 6am and that was two weeks before her 4 month birthday.

When she did that, we knew it was time to start Ferber. We did it on Monday and it's going perfectly: she sleeps now without pacifier or swaddle and she sleeps deep and long and wonderfully.

winomom22 · August 2010

What worked for DD1 (she was a little older-6-7 mos or so) was when she woke up, instead of me going in there, DH would go in and he would give her, her nuk, shush and rock her back to sleep. If I went in there, you could forget it, she wanted to nurse and wouldn't settle for anything else. With DH going in, she would give in a lot easier and eventually stopped waking up at night.

Mrs. Gizzles · August 2010

My LO will be 6 months tomorrow. He has STTN on occasion, with no special treatment from me. But most of the time, he still wakes up once. We did decrease his middle of the night feeding, the theory being he wouldn't bother to wake up to only eat for 5 minutes (or less), we've reduced him down to five minutes, but he still wants to eat.

hikerbeth · August 2010

We dropped the dream feed about 3.5 months (right before we went to sleep) because it was generally his only night feeding. Now he wakes sometime between 4 and 6 for a feeding, so only once per night and it's done in 10 or 15 minutes. No big deal to me.

My DD had one night feeding until she was about 9.5 months and dropped it on her own.

jenbar · August 2010

I followed DDs lead and she cut out the night feediing on her own around 11 weeks. She now feeds at 9pm and then down by 10 sleeping until 6. She usually get up, feeds, and then back to bed until 10.

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