I need some advice about night weaning

Re: I need some advice about night weaning

• cwm11985 member

  January 2013

  I don't know, that's my kid too.

  
  

  

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• snickersforeveryone member

  January 2013

  Em's like that too. Every two hours like clockwork she wants to eat. We recently changed to a faster nipple flow and she's finally eating more during the day. Last night she suddenly gave us a few 4 hour stretches. I'm hoping eating more all day will help that to become her new normal.

  
  
  
  

  

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• apollonia10 member

  January 2013

  I'm in the same situation, but for the last few nights I've been cutting out the nursing part. I get him when he's crying and cuddle him, and rock him, and he settles down, and then I put him back. He usually cries again, and I either have to rock him again or let him try to go back to sleep. It was rough for a few nights but he's been STTN the last few nights, so it might be helping. I don't think he's hungry in the middle of the night anymore, just waking up.

  

  
  

  
  

  

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• mrsj0423 member

  January 2013

  Joining the party boat.  I do not have it in me to let S cry, I get her and nurse her.  Sometimes though I think that I might go in too soon because she is doing the weird sleep cry.  I should probably wait until it is a fully awakened cry, but I usually pick her up before it gets there.  I'm probably creating bad habits, but it's either nurse her back to sleep and go back to sleep myself, or lay awake in bed listening to her on the monitor waiting for it to become "real".  I would also like some advice on this... Advice that doesn't end with "just let her cry it out, she will eventually fall asleep".

  

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• Vive member

  January 2013

  My LO will not self settle if he wakes up all the way, so I always go in and feed him back to sleep. However if he doesn't fully wake up [because I got there fast enough I can sometimes shush and reposition him back to sleep]. So yeah... I always go in and prepare to feed, sorry no new advice.

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• lilahbean13 member

  January 2013

  The energy and time I waste trying to calm her down and get her back to sleep without nursing is simply not worth it to me. If rather get in nurse get out and go back to sleep. If I skip it, I end up fighting with her to go to sleep for so long that it turns in to about the time to eat again so eff that

  

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• DCMerged

  January 2013

  We're in a similar situation too. I was bedsharing and recently moved to crib because I would nurse him back to sleep every waking and it was 1 to 3 hours through the night. He still gets up that frequently in his crib but Daddy has been trying to do the first response and try to get him back to sleep. That has been working pretty well. I have now picked two general times where if daddy can't get him to sleep I will nurse him so I am down to 2 or 3 feedings per night (versus the up to 7 per night we were doing).

  

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• OUKatie member

  January 2013

  DD has been waking to nurse consistently around 4:30am. If she wakes earlier than that, I try to get her back down by rocking, jiggling, etc. If she gets progressively fussier, then I nurse. I just want to go back to bed.

  

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