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Night weaning question

celiabwatsonceliabwatson
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At least I think it's a night weaning question...

We have taken a very gentle approach to sleep with my toddler (my baby too but she sleeps like a dream already). Basically I respond to his needs when he wakes, which includes nursing at night. He was down to (in general) two night wakings by 12 months and just one by 18 months. Lately he's in a pretty predictable pattern of one of two types of night. He either wakes around 3, nurses back to sleep and then wakes for the day at 7. Or he doesn't wake at 3 and then wakes around 6. When he wakes around 6 I've been getting him up for the day rather than nursing in bed like we do when he's up at 3. We still nurse because that's part of his waking up routine, but we do it on the couch instead of in bed.

This morning I first heard him at 5:45. I decided to get up (against my personal preference). My thinking is that the more days I can get him to go to bed and get up without a nursing break the better. Am I right or am I wasting my time making him wake up? 

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Re: Night weaning question

  • 3003girl3003girl member

    we have the same issue. 

    LO either wakes at 3:30/4, and I can nurse her back to sleep until 7ish, or she wakes at 6 and it's really hard to nurse her back asleep. I try to keep her in bed until 7 though, and she will sometimes fall back asleep. If not, we cuddle and lounge. If she gets up right at 6 she seems to be a crankpot.

    I don't know what I'd do if I had another kiddo though - does it interfere with their schedule?

    I just wish my kid would pick one wake up time or another! ;)

    Good luck.  

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  • celiabwatsonceliabwatson
    They sleep through each other's wakings just fine. The baby typically wakes at 7 so if I'm up early with the boy I'm up early with just him. We do tend to just cuddle etc but I do it on the couch in hopes of sending the message that we go to sleep, sleep for a while and wake up, not wake up, nurse and go back to sleep. But I'm not really sure if that message makes sense or is getting through. I suppose I could encourage him to stay in bed for a while longer if I sat in there with him, but if he wasn't quiet and wanted to play we'd have to get up.
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