Did you actively drop the night feed? If so, at what point?

[scarlotti]

DS2 is 5 months and about 17lbs. He helped himself to my lunch yesterday so we're starting BLW now as he's obviously ready

For the past few weeks he's been feeding at around 4am and taking a fair amount, only one side though. I feed laying down and we drift off to sleep.
But then when he wakes and I give him a feed around 7am he barely takes anything. He will then go through until about 10am ish before having any more milk. I ebf apart from a 10pm bottle which is formula.

Should I be trying to cut down/delay the 4am feed to try and get him to take more milk at 7am and then maybe even drop the 4am one all together?

I had the same problem and stopped night feeds at 7months just by rushing to give them one night. She went back to sleep and didn't ask again. She now eats so much better during the day (she used to refuse her morning feeds and just snack during the day but have two huge feeds in the night)

I think you are supposed to wait til they are well onto solids before dropping the night feeds but others are probably better informed than me on this. I just went with what my GP and HV told me.

I think all babies are different on this. I'd try and get your partner to settle him (you'll smell of milk so he'll root), and if he goes down, after two or three nights of it he will probably sleep through it. If he keeps waking at the same time past this, or just wakes 40 mins later, chances are he still wants milk, rather than just using it to resettle. Another way is just taking him into your bed to resettle but not feeding him, but that opens up a whole 'nother can of worms IMO!

sorry, lack of sleep here (due to toddler not baby). To answer your question, I dropped the night feeds around 7 mo, but he was feeding well at 4 and 7am.

Thanks for your answers ladies, looks like I might carry on for a while then as if I get him to go off with a dummy, he does tend to wake 40 mins later.
As he's only 5 months I'm probably hoping for too much too soon!

I let my son take the lead and probably by about 10 mths he stopped waking for a feed in the night unless ill.

Your probably find that as his solids increase he will naturally make the time he wakes later into the morning.