Non-clicky Poll on Sleep

Athena0809 · December 2012

DS is 18 months old and we bedshare and therefore mom's diner stays open all night, on bad nights he wakes up every two hours...I'm not here to complain or to get advice on how to make him sleep, I have been coping and have resigned myself that eventually he will sleep because bedsharing and BFing is more important to me right now.

Anyway, I was curious to see for those with older babies/toddlers, at what age did your LO started getting stretches of 5 or more hours, and at what age did you stop night nursing, did it happen on it's own or did you intervened? TIA!

tokenhoser · December 2012

I night weaned at 18 months because things were getting worse, not better, and I couldn't cope with that while working. He's up once sometimes, still, but I give him a hug and he goes back to sleep (with a few minutes of complaining first).

He was going 5 hours before that... but it was 7:30 pm to 12:30 pm.

boogerbearoriginal · December 2012

LO is 16m, good night he wakes and nurses 1x, bad night it's literally all night long that he's latched on.

At this point, I actually think LO needs to be put someplace else to sleep. I am very uncomfortable with back/neck pain from cramped sleeping, and he is waking up tired and cranky every single day despite being in bed for 11-12hrs.

With regard to the night nursing, I plan to see what happens when we move him to his own bed in his room and go from there.

HTH.

Still free to be me · December 2012

DD1's sleep went in cycles. When she was tiny, she slept solidly through the night. At a year, she was waking up a couple times. At 2, she went through a phase when she was getting up 6-10 times a night. I got pregnant when she was 2 y 2 months. We basically night-weaned during my first trimester and then she was just nursing right before bed for the second and third trimesters. She still wakes up one time a night, a couple times a week...usually because she is thirsty, cold, or needs to go pee.

She has bedshared with us until about a week ago. It looks like she wants some space of her own, because she keeps asking to sleep in her room, on the couch, or wherever else. We just go with it.

BrittKav · December 2012

We nightweaned at the same time we moved them to their own room, between 12 and 14 months. Until then they nursed every couple of hours throughout the night. Once they were in their own room they didn't wake as easily (they were light sleepers) and therefore didn't need to nurse back to sleep. I know not everyone would want to stop bedsharing that young though.

LatteLady5 · December 2012

We don't bedshare anymore. N was waking up EVERY hour or less and pretty much attached to me. She sleeps in her crib in our room and still wakes up a few times a night to nurse. I bring her into bed with us for that time and then put her back in her bed. If she wakes up after 5 or so I typically just leave her in bed with us until H leaves for work around 6:45. She has STTN maybe two times and usually doesn't sleep more than 5 hours at a time. I know she will STTN eventually.

TiffanyBerry · December 2012

At 2.5yrs old, it's still rare for DD to sleep 5 hour stretches. Not unheard of, but the longest she usually goes in a stretch is 4 hours.

We haven't stopped night nursing, but I was getting very tired of never getting more than 3hrs of unbroken sleep, and being asked for "booby milk" every single time she woke up. So we did partial night weaning (originally the Dr. Jay Gordon method, then my own variation). She gets to nurse when we go to sleep, once in the middle of the night, and then not again until morning, when her toddler clock turns yellow. Doesn't always stop her from waking up and crying (in toddler "gimme gimme" fashion) about getting milk, but it's much, much better than it was.

But she also gets up at least once when she's wet her diaper, and sometimes another time on top of that due to a dream waking her up.

KateLouise · December 2012

I night-weaned around 16mths. She was waking 2 - 3 times a night, and was basically just having a quick slurp, not a full feed.

I just said to her, "It's not milk time, it's sleepy time. If you're thirsty you can have water." and rolled her over so her back was to me and snugged her in.

The first night she had a quick sip of water (I had a sippy cup ready beside the bed). She woke on the second night but didn't have a drink of water. By the 3rd night she was sleeping through.

BLM10 · December 2012

Totally different scenario here as DS slept 8+ hours at 8 wks when I was still sleeping with him (and I lost my milk at 4 mon). But the sleeping was and is his natural pattern.... it's a lot like mine, fortunately.

pepomntpat · December 2012

We stopped full time bedsharing when LO was 6 months old because she was waking every 45 minutes. I could not function. She started sleeping much better after that and would get up 3-4 times a night. It gradually tapered off until I did the final night weaning cut off about 4 months ago when she started waking to eat at 4 and being up for the day. It was very easy at that point to just tell her it was too early. She wasn't thrilled, but she seemed to get it and got over it very quickly.

We do still part time bed share sometimes and that has worked very well for us.

pixieprincss · December 2012

DS1 stopped nursing every 2 hours at night at about 14 months when he moved to primarily solids during the day and we needed to do some gentle coaching to get him to go 4 hours between nursings at night (I was PG, exhausted, and sensitive). He still woke every 2 hours, but would get a special hug and cuddle rather than milkies. As for sleeping 5 hours in a row, that started happening some nights at 19 months. It happened on its own, though I will say that he self-weaned a few weeks before that started.

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