11pm feeding

[alfiesmummy23]

hi all,
I would be grateful to hear from some peeps about when they started to cut baby's milk feeds down, im weaning my little man at the mo and he is getting along ok, but i am wondering when to cut out the 11pm feed? sometimes he will drink 5oz but sometimes he will only have a little bit and refuse the rest, i dream feed him so he does not wake up but would like to get to sleep before midnight sometime soon as he likes to wake around 6am!

How old?

I would start pulling the 11pm feed forward bit by bit, say by ten minutes each night so that in a week you are doing the final feed at 10 pm. leave at 10pm for a bit then see if you can pull forward again til 9pm and so on

If he's still quite little then wait a few months

I started doing a dream feed about 11.30 at about 3 mths, but forgot to prepare (express) one a couple of times so just left my son sleeping rather than waking him for a feed. As he woke up at the same time without that dream feed as he did when he'd had one that was the end for us as there seemed little point. We were only doing the dream feed for a couple weeks and luckily for us he was usually sleeping through to 6.30 /7 by 10-12wks.

he's 6 months, I have been weaning him since about 5 months though so at the moment he has solids breakfast and solids lunch but not on to solids for tea yet, taking it slowly. I did a similar thing woba, i fell asleep feeding him one night and he had about 1oz but he did wake up in the night which he doesn't normaly do so will try the ten minute thing and see how if goes x thanku x

Our DS is 8 months and still has a ff bottle at around this time, and a bf around 3am. Occasionally he'll sail straight through the 11pm feed and not wake up until 2 or 3am, and I then bf him, though am trying to push this later as he's also an early waker. And like yours sometimes he'll have a couple of ounces, others he'll wolf the whole bottle.

Maybe wait until he's eating three good meals a day? I don't think it's unusual for babies at 6m to still need a night feed.

But, I guess there's no harm in coaxing, which is what we do now. Every night we just pop his dummy in when he wakes for the first time and he'll often go back to sleep, so you could try that (if you use a dummy). Or just try and settle - or, and I have no experience of this, so don't know the full details, begin to reduce the amount you offer and/or replace it with water. So he begins to realise that he doesn't get fed when waking?

HTH x