Do older co-sleeping BF babies ever sleep through the night?

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I am wondering about this as there are a number of threads with older co-(non) sleeping babies and I just wondered if they ever do?

I breastfed my babies in bed at night and if we both fell asleep then they stayed there. If I woke I put them back in their cot, so I didn't therefore co-sleep in the true sense.

Does co-sleeping encourage a baby to 'graze' frequently during the night as mum in 'on tap' so to speak?

I am not sure how you can stop night feeds unless you stop co-sleeping. Is it possible?

16mo DS2 sleeps in a cot and still wakes to feed at night [little blighter]

Well, it's not scientific, but I reckon co-sleeping/nightfeeding gives them something to wake up 'for'. I have co-slept (very happily) with both of mine. DS1 was weaned at 22 months and pretty much immediately stopped waking at night (tho we continued to co-sleep). DS2 is now 27 months and still bf-ing, and wakes 2/3 times a night for a feed.

You can wean when co-sleping, but I think it helps if the mother makes herself a bit scarce for a few nights.

I think yes it definitely encourages it

ds was 3 before he regularly slept through and that would be after we had moved him to his own bed

I think the smell of you nearby etc makes them more likely to wake up for a feed, plus I still maintain it is good for them and it is GREAT for your supply, so probably the way they are "designed" to be rather than something gone wrong, IYSWIM. I know we regard night waking and night feeding as an aberration in our culture but there are advantages for the child to do it that way.

welllll, when pregnant I gor so tired of waking up that I refused. In both cases ds/dd1 slept through (more or less) after few days. I wouldn't have let them cry too much, wouldn't be have been able to do that.

o, and none of dc sleeps on his/her own yet, either with me or with dh (usually) in the other room

My dd is 3, stil bfing and cosleeping. I feed her to sleep but then she sleeps through unless she has a bad dream or sth. She has slept through for a Looooooong time, but can't remember when it started. I think it does encourage them to graze, of course, nice warm boobies right there for the taking! But I never minded cos it was kind of nice, and as I didn't have to get out of bed, hardly mattered.

I love co-sleeping though, it just suits us I guess. Can't imagine having to get out of bed to feed/comfort baby!!!

My son, 18mo, sleeps through the night most of the time (as far as I can tell!). I bf him to sleep, sometimes he has a bit more milk when I come to bed, and sometimes he wakes up in the 'morning' (ie 6am) and has a bit of milk then before sleeping till we get up. But for the most part he doesn't wake up in the night any more and hasn't for a few months now. When he's ill or unsettled he'll graze through the night, but otherwise he doesn't wake up.

no
ds2 is worse still if he co-sleeps
if that is possible

ds is 10 months and has co-slept for part of the night since birth, and is bf.

he sleeps through in his own cot about once a week but it's getting more frequent now

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