Dropping nighttime feeding (1 year old)

yeladim · August 2012

I've partially weaned DS so he is not nursing during the day. He nurses once in the evening, once overnight and sometimes in the morning. I know the overnight feeding should be next to go because there is no reason he should be waking up to nurse at this age; he gets enough to eat during the day. I just don't know how to get rid of it. The daytime feedings are replaced by meals and WCM, but what can I do at night when he wakes up screaming to be nursed?

hillek5 · August 2012

We started putting a sippy of water in bed with DS. I would tell him before bed time that he was going to sleep like a big boy with no "mommy milk" until the next day. If he woke up, either myself or DH would go in and give him his water. A night or two included holding DS and cuddling in his chair in his room for a few minutes with his sippy of water. It took a few nights and a couple tears, but nothing too rough.

skittleblu · August 2012

mlesser - totally off topic, but congrats on the pregnancy! how did it happen so fast? did you get your regular periods back pretty quickly after DS?

tokenhoser · August 2012

I still nurse once overnight, but now if he wakes before 3 or 4, he gets a cuddle and put back in the crib. Sometimes I do it, sometimes DH does it. He cries for a minute or two and goes back to sleep.

It might not be as bad as you think.

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