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When will she stop night feedings?

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zinher · 12/04/2015 21:05

DD is 13 months. She is still breastfed on demand. This varies from day to day. She is having solids and eats all kinds of foods.

She still wakes up 3-4 times in the night and I have to nurse her back to sleep. She isn't even hungry. She will just suck for a minute and then doze off. IF I don't do this she will properly wake up and throw huge tantrums.

Was just wondering if she will grow out of this on her own or should I be doing something to stop it?

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chocolatescones · 12/04/2015 21:58

I'm not sure whether she'll grow out of it, with DD at 10months I stopped feeding her at night- I got to the point where I knew she could go all night as she had a few times, and she was eating loads so stopped doing it. Sometimes she's be cuddled back to sleep and sometimes I'd leave her to cry for a bit. So for me it was being confident that she wasn't hungry, deciding I wouldn't feed her and then deciding how to go about not feeding her! People have many different opinions on the last thing...

zinher · 12/04/2015 22:03

I did try leaving her to cry and just cuddling her but she cried for ages and in the end I nursed her just to get some peace. She eat a lot when I am not around but if I am there I struggle to get much into her she much prefers milk

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TeaAddict235 · 12/04/2015 22:06

sounds JUST like DS!!! sometimes he falls asleep at the smell of the breast as I start to feed him at night!

If DH goes in to DS, he screams like a banshee for ages. I call it the nightly terrors.

I am hoping that DS, and your DD grow out of it. Furthermore, I will tell DS to be gentle with his DC, because the way that he screams at night, I am sure that the neighbours are suspicious of us.

Flowers for tonight

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