Night weaning! Some questions and hopefully a few of your suggestions?

[4FoxAche]

So ds2 is 6months and 1 week. Started weaning properly around 24/25 weeks i'd say.

I'm not doing puree's coz I'm a lazy cow with a toddler to cook for too so it's just a case of putting whatever we're having in front of him.

Now, at the moment he's still not eating much although he is having a bloody good go at it so I'm not planning on night weaning him until at least 7 months old. I just want to get a plan together so I can tell and let dp get used to his part in it all.

So he still wakes every two to three hours in the night for a feed. I have decided, to start with, that between the hours of midnight and 6/7am

Oh balls, was just saying the other day how I like the fact this site doesn't have an edit facility, now I wish it did.

Hope you get the gist anyway.

OK, I can tell you what I'm doing - I'm about 6 weeks further on than you, DS is 7.5 months.

DS was feeding about 7pm/10-11pm/3-4am/6-7am. Starting weaning at 22 weeks and by a month in he was eating a reasonable amount, so started trying to move the 3-4am feed nearer to the morning - if he woke between 11pm and 5am DP went in and settled him back to sleep (in practice this meant sitting with ds sleeping in his arms for an hour or 2 until 5am!). But he stopped waking for that feed within a couple of days. Now I don't feed between 11pm (which is a dreamfeed as he aslo stopped waking for this) and 6am - he does still wake in the night 2-3 times a week but just needs his dummy to go back to sleep til 6/7am.

Now I'm starting to reduce the 11pm dreamfeed - it's a formula feed, but I guess with a breastfeed you could only offer one breast - and I going to start bringing it forward until we can drop it completely.

One thing I would say, is we found it only worked for DP to go in and settle without feeding. If I went to ds he desperately rooted for a feed and I felt it was a bit cruel and too confusing to deny him. With DP he doesn't expect a boob so is happy with a dummy and a cuddle.

Hi 4Fox
We are also a few weeks ahead. DS is just under 7 months and we started weaning at 22 weeks. He now eats loads - loves solids! Prior to this, he was waking between 3 and 6 times a night for a BF. Like Ruby would agree it is really important that your DP does the night settling. We dropped to 2 night feeds initially - I introduced a 10.30 dreamfeed and then fed him when he woke about 4. Other wakes DP settled him. He was still in our room at the time and I slept on the sofa - took three nights. He then was taking very little at the dreamfeed so I dropped that but will feed up to twice in the night if needed.

For the first couple of weeks he continued to wake at his usual feed times but settled quickly with a dummy. In the past few days he has begun sleeping through from 7-4, feed and then 4-7.....and last night he slept 7-5. So it really is worth it!

Good luck