Dd is 17.5 months, waking very often to nurse. Has weaning reduced night weaning for anybody?

do you mean 7.5 months and weaning from boob completly or adding food??? bit confused sorry

Dd is seventeen and a half months

considering weaning completely from boob - does this improve sleep

ahhh afraid i cant help as my ds only 8 months but bumping for you...

Are you sure she's waking for food and not comfort?

If she's on three good (solid) meals a day, then in theory I don't see why she should be waking in the night hungry.

Having said that, everyone's different, and I only have four months' experience of parenthood to draw on

I'd love to know the answer to this, so bumpiung for you.

14 mth ds wakes at 2, 4, 6 and 8 and feeds every time. am sure half of it is comfort and because i usually give in at 4am and bring him in with us, he does it to get back to sleep.

tonight DP is going in with a bottle of formula and my plan is to gradually reduce the strength until he's getting water for the 4am job. We're aiming for him to drop that feed, and I'll carry on with the 2am and try to gradually push the 6am back to 7.

Will let you know how we go on !

PS re the 3 solid meals - DS has about 5 solid meals plus snacks plus 2 daytime milk feeds and it still doesn't make a difference !!

DD has slept through for about a month, so since she was about 19 months. She still BFs morning, evening, any other time she feels like it.

I don't know why she does now. I don't do anything different that I can think of. I can only think that she was ready to sleep through.

stopped bfing dd at about 13 months at night. Slept through straight away (had only done so twice before)!

Almost 17 months and only just(intermittently)sleeping through...I've now had more sleep in the last three weeks than I have since she was born, but she is a law unto herself as I can never tell what she'll do each night.

But still breast feeding.

was it hard to wean completely from the boob? ie much crying day and night? not sure how to go about this - any books to recommend?

dd fed alot at night at this age but weaning onto solids was very slow due to egg and dairy allergy.

you can experiment with eliminating every other waking. ie, feed say at 11 pm but not at 12.30am but feed whenever he wakes the third time, even if just 20 mins later.

I found that it got her to sleep longer between feeds.

If at any time she started to cry louder rather than settle with cuddles I just fed her back to sleep as if she was too wide awake it would be ages to get her to go back down.

Elizabeth Pantley has a book called the No Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers. You can have alook at that.

Just a thought - wouldn't you wake properly if you knew a warm comforting feed was coming?

At that age (17m) it isn't about needing food it is about not wanting to go back to sleep alone.

when we stopped the night nursing DD became very clingy during the day, seems to need this right now

interested in hearing from people for whom baby just became "ready to sleep through" without any special intervention

feeling optimistic....

have heard a few (2) examples of this.... at 19 and 24 months