Night feeds at 6 months. HELP !!!!

[spiderbabymum]

Advice wanted PlEASE.

OK I am not quite at my wits end but I am getting there .

My ds is 6 months old. he is feeding far too often at night For ME. I am starting to feel As tired as i did in the first 6 weeks .

Currently he goes to bed at 7 pm .He sleeps in his cot. He will usually sleep till midnight but in the last few weeks hes started waking at 10;30 looking for a feed. I go to bed around midnight usually . Its really after that the fun starts . He Wakes every 90 mins to 2 hours. So I generally feed him 5 or six feeds in the night . By morning theres Nothing left in my breasts and im wrecked .

I feel bad that ive let it get to this stage because im sure hes waking out of habit now .

I should add that he was 5 weeks early and was very small . So Ive always been keen to get the calories in to him .
I have just started weaning...in last 3 days ...baby rice only.

My question is how do I reduce the night feeds ??? I have co sleept intermittently ...This did help me but i wonder if thats why he got used to feeding a lot.

Basically I just dont know where to start in addressing this problem .

do you have a partner that could help? I find that unless mine goes in to settle my ds, he automatically associates me with milk and just expects it. for us, the only way to sort it was for my partner to go in when he woke and to settle him. eventually he twigged that he wasn't going to get any milk in the night. dh did offer a cup of water, but ds rejected that. it may take your partner having a few days off work so that s /he can rest during the days. depending on your ds's persistence, it may take 2 or 3 nights of frequent waking before he gets the message. but believe me, he will.

Don't feel bad. dd only stopped waking for a feed at night a few months ago when she turned 2.

Some babies just wake more/want bm more than others.

If you really want to stop then you could try just patting and comforting him other ways when he wakes OR get dh to do it so he wont smell the milk.

OR just go back to co sleeping and dont stress about it. Its fine and so many people are still feeeding at night but they just don't mention it. Lots of people seem obsessed with 'sleeping through'.

BUT it is very draining I know. dd used to be like this then she'd ease off then go back again.

She stopped at night of her own accord and in the end it was only once a night.