can u share a positive story with me when you stopped b' feeding your dc during the night??? he is crying with dh and I am finding it quite hard not to go up and feed him......

[papaya]

ds wakes every 40min to 2 hourly through the evening. On the rare occasion if I go out, he refuses a bottle (excl b'fed) and will settle quickly and sleep through most of the night with anyone else but me. he eats well during the day and feeds at least 4-5 times, this evening we are going to try and get him to sleep through for at least part of the night by doing pick up put down....

how did you stay strong?! I can hear him crying upstairs with DH and I want to go and give him my boob!!

he is 10 mo btw!

Hi all - very interesting thread!

I have 6 dcs ranging in age from 16 years to 6 months and none of them have ever been left to cry.
I have had good sleepers on the whole but ds4, now aged 3 didn't sleep a full night till he was 23 months and even now has some wakeful nights. I bf him till 21months and he did only want me in the night but the same is true now and I am not bf him. It is true of the others as well - if they wake in the night dh alwyas has trouble settling them as they want mummy

I think that you do what you feel is best for yourself, your family and your LO and if you are happy with your decisions then your baby will be happy too........if you still ache to feed him when he cries and he is not settling for dh then feed him honey...it's natures way!!

Sorry I don't mean to be patronizing but I have had my share of very long and sleep deprived nights and hazy days...going to work (as a teacher) and having to put a brave face on...times when I wanted to cry and cry I was so tired...but as some others have said it really doesn't last

Before you know it your LO will be 16 and have girlfriends....it seems the blink of an eye.....now I am up bf my dd when my ds1 comes in from his nights out

Enjoy....enjoy...worry less....sleep when they are grown