Does anyone still feed a 11 month old at night

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Is it becoming time to stop and try to encourage a full sleep through. DC2 wakes between 1-3 for a quick feed but i'm pregnant and fancy getting some nights were i can sleep all the way through...

Is it possible if they don't do it as a part of their natural rhythm?

I am amazed at how many of you still feed your children at night after they are weaned. I'm not like a friend who doesn't give her children anything in a bottle after they hit one year, but my sons were sleeping 7 till 7 at 6/7 months. I was told by my mum that if they woke I was just to give them water from a spoon. The night waking being habit rather than need.

Superene, so on your sample size of two you think you know the 'habit' catogorically? DS refuses a bottle at 5am but is happy to just lie and play until i get him at 6. In the night, he literally GLUGS his bottle and goes straight back to sleep.

Why don't we ALL just do what Superene's mum says??? [smacks forehead]. OMG I can't believe I've been such a SAP!

Yes I still do as needed. Thank you for starting thiss thread as I was too embarrassed to even ask! Ds occassionally sleeps through now, and often does 4-7 hour chunks, but if he wakes and wants milk then we feed him. it doesn't seem to stop him sleeping longer the following night and I'm too lazy tired to night wean before he wants to

Yes I still do as needed. Thank you for starting thiss thread as I was too embarrassed to even ask! Ds occassionally sleeps through now, and often does 4-7 hour chunks, but if he wakes and wants milk then we feed him. it doesn't seem to stop him sleeping longer the following night and I'm too lazy tired to night wean before he wants to

I breastfed at night until about 16 months or so, then we went to bottles (so could split night wakeups with DH - we were down to one per night by then, and having an uninterrupted night every second night was bliss), and she stopped waking for them on her own between 18 and 21 months - by the end she was only waking every now and then, if she'd not eaten much during the day, or was getting ill.

i'm pmsl at the idea of trying to spoon feed ds water while he is screaming and prising the fridge open.

Nonsense.

I agree night waking is often need. DS often woke because he needed to pass wind but couldn't. Or because his teeth hurt. Or because he'd pulled his elbow and he was in pain. Or for some other reason. Giving water wouldn't have helped any of those, but a bf fixed it all.

No, it's a bit too hot for me, MFM, and I don't have a bump. :)

Did I say that I "know the habit categorically"? No.
Have you tried water?
Everyone's children wake at night sometimes, all I was saying is that it isn't always because they are hungry.
Just because you think it can't work for your children doesn't mean it won't for other people's. Don't knock what you haven't tried.