To ask whether 6.5 month can go through the night without being breastfed?

[Pastaalldaylong]

6.5 month old EBF (bottle refuser). Is usually fed to sleep at night at 7.15pm ish. She slept through the night before when she was younger but for the last 3 months has woken multiple times a night. I usually try to cuddle her but almost always end up giving her a quick 5 min feed before she goes back to sleep as she just cries otherwise.

I'm worried that if I were to really persevere and not feed her but just cuddle etc that she is hungry and that's why she's woken? Or is it just a habit and comfort now. I dont think I can bare controlled crying. Last night she woke up 5 times! I wouldn't mind 1 night wake feed but I'm barely getting 2 hours at a time now.
Any advice please?

My almost eleven month old still feeds through the night. My son turned 2 two weeks after she was born and he stopped feeding at night whole I was in the hospital having her!

My twins sometimes still feed at night at 18 months. It is totally totally normal. Your baby is still very small and too young to night wean.

I wish people would stop posting a blanket yes or no! Life isn't that simple. Some babies can, others can't. I had one of each. DD1 slept 10 - 7.30 from 10 weeks old. Fully EBF, I thought I was some supermummy. Then DD2 came along 2 years later and had two night feeds until she was nearly one. It wasn't comfort feeding - she'd drain both sides in 15 minutes flat and then conk out. She also did absolutely everything way earlier - crawling, standing, walking - than her Dsis. Completely different child.

That's interesting @pointythings
Just shows that it doesnt really matter what you do and its their nature often dictates. Also, in the last month or so she has started to crawl (pull herself along all over the living room) so perhaps using more energy that others who perhaps arent mobile yet?

I’m not sure what’s happening with my 7 mo DS then... good night is 2 or 3 feeds, bad night is 5 or more. Each time properly feeds,either bf or 150-200ml from expressed bottle. He’s been weaned since 4.5 months on the recommendation of GP and HV and has 3 meals with protein, veg and carbs along with several milk feeds in the day and it has made no difference to the night.

Pasta my completely unscientific theory is that it isn't so much about physical activity as about very rapid brain development. I do also wonder whether DD2 just wanted to be able to do what DD1 could do. She certainly got mad frustrated about a lot of things - not having shoes while her sis was running around (when she'd been walking 10 days), having to wear armbands when her sis could swim without (so she ended up being a crazy good swimmer by 6) and throwing a giant fit about communication until she started talking in sentences 3 months earlier than her big sister.

Now they're 19 and 17 and you wouldn't know how different they were as babies. They're very different characters but they both got the same GCSE grades, have a very similar sense of humour and taste in music and look really alike.

My dd has been breastfed and refused bottles. Exclusive for 6 months then introduced food but she will still only drink my milk. She just started sleeping through at 3.5 years old.

Mine defo wakes because of hunger . He's just 7 months. id continue to feed in the night until around 10 months I think before trying to wean him off

My son is 15 months and still wakes up 1-3 times a night for a feed.

I was told by a health visitor that it is completely normal, so I am not doing anything about it yet.