anyone feeding an older baby on demand at night?

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Or is it just me?

Feel like 10mo dd should be night weaned by now but it is just easier to carry on. We are still co-sleeping and she wakes a couple of times to feed.

I demand fed my ds at night until he was 14 mounths old. Thankfully then we did drop night feeds but it took a lot of efford.

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DD is 16 months and and demand fed, co sleeping too. I sleep through most of it I think. I wouldn't even know how to start night weaning, sorry to be no help. I parent by the path of least resistance.

Still doing it at 18m

He maybe feeds once during the day, then at bedtime and through the night.

This really wasn't the plan.

I still feed dd on demand, which is mostly at night because she gets too distracted to feed much during the day. She's 11 months.
I'm trying to cut the night feeds down though, we've been co sleeping, and she's been comfort feeding every couple of hours. So dh is intervening now, she'll accept a cuddle from him, whereas she won't from me .

Still doing it at 20m, and co sleeping. Path of least resistance here too.

I am, DS is just over 13 months. He wakes up (several times), I feed. Starting to wonder if I should be attempting to soothe him some other way but the one attempt I made ended in furious crying and it's just easier to feed. I am co-sleeping too. I am just too lazy to go through the hell of night weaning.

Me! DS has just turned 1 and have been muttering about maybe having to do something about all the night feeds. Last 2 nights much better, only 2 wake ups. Long may it last! In own cot at start of the night, then in with us. Feeding to sleep, or sometimes rocking by DH if he wont settle. Am hoping things will sort themselves out without having to do anything else (wishful thinking).

Feel better knowing it's not just me! Admitting to it IRL seems to get a reaction.

Same here...co sleeping and feeding dd who is 20 mo...only way she'll settle at nite but love that i get pretty much undisturbed nights sleep! great to see other mums doing same. Tried to get dh to settle but she goes nuts. Believe she'll change things when she's ready!!

I fed DD on demand including nights, up until she was 13 months old when she miraculously night weaned and started sleeping through the night. So it can magically sort itself.

Having said that she is now 21 months old and although she no longer breast feeds, she also is going through a phase of not sleeping through the night and is actually in our bed much more now than she ever was when she was bf!

I still feed DD3 in the night if she asks for it and she is 2.3y. I'd nurse DD2 as well if she needed it (she is 4.2y so doesn't 'feed' as such now).

I don't see why I would put a limit on my parenting just because it's night time. I did night wean with DD1 at 12m but I thought that was what you were supposed to do, I wanted to conceive and she was feeding 4 times in the night (I was already pg when she NW!) and I regret it now, haven't made the same mistake with the other two (though had circs. been different who knows what decisions I might have had to make).

Yes, I am too. And DS will be 2 next week. He's not a good sleeper and it's the only way to stop him waking DH. We co-sleep. He wakes up, feeds, and we all go back to sleep again. I can't see the point in all the stress and palaver of night weaning that my friends and family seemed to have gone through. Neither do I see the point of getting out of bed to fetch a beaker of water because 'they need to learn they can't have milk', and then spending 2 hours in the sitting room rocking them back to sleep.

My baby is 8 month and we co-sleep and he dreamfeeds on and off throughout the night. My DD was FF so at 8 months to around 18 months I would have been up in the night to get her a 'bot-bot'. Its nice that I don't have to get out of our nice warm bed, don't have to resettle as he doesn't fully wake up.

I was a zombie for the first 2yrs of my daughters life so just really enjoy having my sleep at the moment and being able to enjoy a nice cuddle rather than being stressed and exhausted.

And TBH, when you decide to night-wean, doesn't mean that'll be the moment they magically sleep through, in their own cot, haha, as if!

Yep - DS is 18mo and still feeds at least twice (usually more like 3 or 4 times) between 7pm-7am.

I'd quite like him to stop at night now tbh, but he doesn't seem to want to [understatement] and I am too tired to bother with any faffing around trying to gently night wean him. Easier just to feed him and go back to sleep.

Still doing it at 3.3yo (and also an 11 mo). I do occasionally say no if she asks more than once in an hour and sometimes she is happy to just have a cuddle. This works well for us and both my DDs are happy and healthy.

It's only a problem if it's a problem for you. Your HV, MiL, next-door neighbour, best mate etc etc are not the ones dealing with the night-waking.

This is a nice article that might reassure you a bit that your DD is totally normal and that you're not doing anything wrong.