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Dropping feedings

PearlvirusPearlvirus member
in April 2014 Moms
For the last couple of weeks my LO has been less and less interested in nursing before bed. She still nurses well 3 other times during the day and has been eating more and more solids. I think I can just stop offering before bed, but I expected that to be the last feeding to go, not the first. What gives?!? I offer before her actual bedtime routine so she doesn't need it to sleep and has been sleeping fine after barely taking any all week. I just wonder if this is a phase and I should keep offering even if she doesn't accept or if I should drop is altogether?
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Re: Dropping feedings

  • CatherineDC2012CatherineDC2012 member
    It's interesting because I feel like we re going longer in between nursing sessions and was just logging in to ask how everyone is weaning if they are etc etc. I say if she's stopping, I would go with it! She may just be ready?
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  • yellowflower15yellowflower15 member
    I am down to about 4-5 nursings per day. I often replace the mid-day nursing with cow's milk for convenience more than anything. There's definitely some self-weaning going on. Those nursings tend to be much faster and I can tell he's not taking in as much - sometimes he only nurses one side when before he always nursed on both sides.

    I guess my only worry about dropping the night time nursing would be my own discomfort of going longer without a nursing session. But the body should adjust.
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  • ScotchAggieScotchAggie member
    We dropped one for awhile so it was just five on weekdays, but lately she is hungry ALL.THE .TIME. So we are back to six. She is just turning 11 months though, so hopefully more solids will help.
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  • babayRFLbabayRFL member
    @Pearlvirus, we're having the same thing here! I was planning on continuing the bedtime feeding and dropping the others at/around 12 months. I won't miss pumping at all, or probably even the day time feedings, but I like the cuddles at bed time! It makes me sad to think we might be completely done in just a month or 2! I'm still offering every night, but when he's done he's started biting, so if it's a quick few minutes and he starts that mess I just give up, say goodnight, and put him in his crib and he'll go to sleep fine. The first night he did that I cried because I felt like he didn't need me when he didn't nurse to sleep and then laid himself down and fell asleep on his own. DH thought I was nuts
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  • emilyann64emilyann64 member
    The bedtime nursing session has become a struggle for us too. I still offer but we end up giving a bottle of formula(which she drinks X( ). I totally lost it the other night crying my eyes out bc I thought it meant we were done. It was definitely unnecessary bc she still likes to nurse in the mornings and twice during the day.
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