s/o night feedings... BF'ers...

Kellina · August 2011

Are any of you trying to cut out ALL night feedings? I so desperately want to sleep a full night again!!!

He goes down about 7:45 for the night and is up for the day between 5:15-6:00. He wakes once around 2ish and I feed him.

He was waking at midnight as well, but I did extinction CIO and he dropped it. I don't want to be a "mean mommy" and starve him to death if he really needs to eat!!

This is seriously all new to me- #1 STTN so early and never needed "sleep training"!!

pitterpatter129 · August 2011

We still do two feedings a night. My pediatrician told me at our appointment today that he does not NEED those feedings. Apparently, he's trained me.

Pedi's suggestion was to CIO when I feel I'm ready to sleep more. He said there is no reason not to CIO, that the baby will wise up to the fact that it's really bedtime pretty quickly and it's harder on me than him. He said he would never tell someone they have to do that, but it worked with his own kids and that's his advice. I think I'll still do the feedings for awhile longer though. I don't really mind getting up all that much and for selfish haven't-got-my-period-back-yet reasons, I wouldn't mind holding off on the night weanings a little while longer. But, when I go back to work next week, I might change my mind!

Rink08 · August 2011

I'm like you in that DS1 STTN from the start and this LO is still waking to nurse. Right now, LO falls asleep pretty quickly during his late night snack so I don't think that he needs to wake up for it.

However, I'm having a lot of trouble getting him to sleep on his own (laying down drowsy but awake = him standing and screaming until he gags and spits up)so I'm focusing on that first and then we will cut out the night time feed right after.

utlawgirl · August 2011

We cut out her one night feed at 6 months, with the pedi's OK. My mommy instincts told me it was just habit. After 3 nights of CIO, it was gone, and she has STTN since. I just make sure she nurses plenty during the day. I say go for it if your instincts tell you to. A full night's sleep is amazing!

Cheekers2010 · August 2011

G usually goes down at 8-8:30 and sleeps until 8 am. I feed him before he goes to sleep and then again when I go to bed somewhere between 11-12. Usually he wakes up at least one or two more times per night to eat again. Honestly, I would be thrilled if he would only get up once around 4 am or so. I've been going on the assumption that he needs the food because he's a snacker. I don't know how to break him of that and get him to eat full meals during the day. Strangely, though, he didn't wake up last night at all. Maybe this is the start of something new! Maybe you could try extinction with the 2 am feeding and see how he does. If he seems to be starving you can add it back in.

babyonthebrain2010 · August 2011

ugh this just makes me feel like an idiot because I've only been enabling him, but he still wakes up every 1-3 hours to eat. I just haven't had the patience or heart to do CIO yet, although I told myself I would months ago

shaw · August 2011

After making sure that LO is getting plenty to eat and drink during the day...I would def cut out the night feedings. They need the full night sleep just as much as we do :O) A little crying won't hurt LO. GL

Cheekers2010 · August 2011

babyonthebrain2010:
ugh this just makes me feel like an idiot because I've only been enabling him, but he still wakes up every 1-3 hours to eat. I just haven't had the patience or heart to do CIO yet, although I told myself I would months ago

See my post above. Obviously I'm also a sucker.

TripMomma · August 2011

Jericho sleeps with us and most nights is up twice. It sucks. The trio were STTN and in their own room at 5 months. Jericho is so clingy and needy, he just wants to be right next to me and be able to roll over and nurse whenever he wishes. I don't see an end any time soon either as he will cry and cry and cry so I do not think CIO will even work for him.

CamilleJon · August 2011

I doubt your LO needs that 2 am feeding! My J sleeps a 12 hour stint through the night (9-9), and he has since 6 1/2 months. He is FF since my milk never came in, but tIdk if that makes a difference at this stage in the game.

According to my Pedi, once LO hits 13 lbs they are physiologically cabable of going 12 hours without eating/drinking as long as they are eating enough during the day. I know bc when J began sleeping that long I was concerned, so I asked our Pedi if there was something wrong. She said no, and to consider myself lucky

I would honestly let LO CIO...

yaeger16 · August 2011

Kellog+1:
babyonthebrain2010:
ugh this just makes me feel like an idiot because I've only been enabling him, but he still wakes up every 1-3 hours to eat. I just haven't had the patience or heart to do CIO yet, although I told myself I would months ago
See my post above. Obviously I'm also a sucker.

Me too. *sigh*

welshgirl · August 2011

DD sleeps 7pm-6am, waking usually 2-3 times (including 5am, which is into bed with us as she won't otherwise go down again,a nd wakes up DS.) DS also slept thru, once we did sleep training - his first night he just clicked and slept 7-5am. DD, not so much. We used Ferber to cut out her hourly wakings, and now she sleeps thru from 7pm until after midnight sometime. Her weight is increasing so she obviously doesn't need to have the calories, so we're thinking of cutting down to just one feed - after 3, and then increasing it so hopefully it'll be 5am-ish. I know she can do 3:30am - she did that this week, and is slowly getting to 2-3am as her first waking, but I'd love to push a little and see what happens.

JenGarden · August 2011

When we sleep trained about a month ago, we cut out all night feedings (although that wasn't my intention going into the process). She now sleeps for 10 - 11 hours (she has never slept 12 hours/night, even when she was eating a ton in the middle of the night) without a feeding. The pedi said at 6 months that she didn't need it, and that some kids start forcing themselves to wake up to eat, rather than just putting themselves back to sleep.

JoJoMama730 · August 2011

G still wakes once or twice to eat at night. I've thought about trying to eliminate the feedings, but I'm just not sure it's the right time now. She's at daycare all day, and she has gotten into the habit of hardly eating in the afternoons. . . . . . like she's waiting for me. She'll go 5, sometimes 6 hours without eating there, and then when I get home, she nurses frequently through the evening. I think there's a term for this, but I can't remember it. Anyway, the night wakings might just be a continuation of this, and I want to make sure she's getting enough to eat.

bosha711 · August 2011

I'm still BFing & DS wakes once, b/w2-4 & I feed him. He empties me out, so I figure he is hungry? He's doing great in every other aspect of development, that honestly, I don't mind that he wakes the once at night. ...but ask me again in another month or so!

SeussicalOne · August 2011

I finally got DS down to 1-2 night wakings vs. every 2-3 hours like he was a month ago after we moved him to his own room. But when he wakes around 2 or 3 a.m. he takes a full feeding (both sides) so I know he's hungry and still needs to eat at least once. I don't mind since it's much better than what it used to be.

EVM1216 · August 2011

We haven't done any formal sleep training. Typically DD wakes up once a night, somewhere betwee 1-3 am. If DH is awake he will go in and try to calm her back to sleep, if he can't he gets me and I nurse her. If DH is not awake I mute the monitor and set my cellphone alarm for 10 minutes. If she is still upset and crying then I will get up and feed her. Usually she sleeps through the night twice a week, lets DH put her back down another two nights, and I have to nurse her to sleep 3 nights. I'd like to cut out the night feeding, but they usually correspond with her having a bad day because of teething or somthing, so I give in and let her comfort nurse.

watermellens · August 2011

We haven't done any formal sleep training either (haven't really needed to), but we did cut out the one night feeding that LO was waking for. My pedi suggested that I still feed him b/c he was most likely hungry, but I didn't agree lol whoops. I cut them out in 3 days - the first 2 days I honestly forgot the monitor was off or had it down too low to hear. The third day I listened to him fuss for 11 minutes and then he went back to sleep. Most nights he'll sleep 10-13 hours straight. Last night he woke up at 430 looking for his paci - he cried for a few minutes after I found it for him and then went to sleep.

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