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Babies: 9 - 12 Months
rmm17
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Night weaning 10 month old
rmm17
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I also posted this on the breastfeeding board...
My almost 10 month old has never slept all the way through the night. About a month ago he was down to 1 night feeding now he's back up to 2 feedings. I am planning to do some gentle partial daytime weaning starting when he's 12 months old. I would really like to have him night weaned (or down to 1) by his birthday. I think he is waking more out of habit than hunger. My DH has been going in to try and sooth him if he wakes up before 2am (he goes down and eats at 8pm). It has not been going well. He will cry and not go back to sleep until i nurse him. Same thing when he wakes again a 5am.
He is nursing 6 times during the day and gets solids 2-3 times a day.
Is it realistic to try and get down to no night nursing by 1 year? Any advice on how to accomplish this?
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Re: Night weaning 10 month old
I have a 10 month old and we just night weaned. Unfortunately, we had to CIO to do it. We're co-sleepers and I work fulltime, so it really wasn't working that my little guy was eating/ comfort sucking the ENTIRE night. I just couldn't do it anymore. We were partially bedsharing, so we had to move him into his crib beside our bed for the entire night instead of a few hours as we had been doing.
It took two nights with pissed off screaming sessions (about 15 minutes of screaming at us, it sucked but I could tell that his cries were more angry than anything) one night with a little fussiness and then we've had two nights of a baby who goes down happily and sleeps about 11 hours. At 6 am, he wakes up and comes into bed and does a nice long nurse/cuddle session. Over the past month, we tried several other means to get him weaned at night, but this was the only thing that worked for us. For instance, he got absolutely hysterical if DH would try to comfort him back down and it just became too emotionally difficult for all of us. I never planned to CIO and will admit that I feel some guilt, but it does seem to have worked and everyone is getting LOTS more sleep. I couldn't have done it without DH being totally on board and supportive. We both agreed that this was right for our situation.
I was concerned about night weaning, too. Because I work, my baby decided to reverse-cycle. He eats loads of solids, but won't take milk during the day. I was afraid that he actually needed the milk he was eating through the night. I had a talk with my pedi and she assured me that he was eating mostly out of habit and would make up for any needed calories during the other feeding sessions.
Good luck finding what works for you!