Night weaning - how did you do it

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Ds2 needs night weaned he feeds for comfort in the night once or twice but i'm going back to work so we need to stop. He's almost 11 months fully weaned and goes to sleep lying in his cot at bedtime.

How did you go about it? I night weaned ds1 around the same age it worked well but I can't really remember what I done.

I can't remember what I did as my son seemed to get it naturally (luckily!) but some people suggest your partner goes in to resettle if needed and says 'mummy sleeping' or something and only offers water. May take a few nights. One of my friends then ended up with her daughter waking in the night for water! If you think he is genuinely waking through hunger then you can give a banana or porridge right before bedtime.

We're doing it at the moment and basically my partner has just taken over the nights. It seems to be working and after a couple of weeks he's stopped waking as much.

We give Dd porridge before bed which seems to help. I think it also helped me having a night away as it meant water or nothing (she refuses formula ).

I've just started with DS who is nearly 8months. He has only woken once at 4am for a feed for a few weeks now and has 3 meals a day. I go in and give him back his dummy and shhh him, and pat for a few minutes. Then I leave. If he starts crying I offer him the water which he will have about 2oz of. Bitmore shhhhhing and patting. Takes about 20-30 minutes and he never starts really crying so I know he isn't hungry. Then he goes back to sleep for about 2/2.5hrs. We are on day 3 now and it's going well.

Hope it goes well for you

I night weaned at 9 months because I too was going back to work and couldn't manage with the sleepless nights of constant breast feeding.

I just went cold turkey and after about three difficult nights he started to learn milk was on the agenda and by night 5 he then started sleeping through.

Not sure if you're breast or bottle feeding. I was bottle feeding and cut down by an ounce a night over a week or so then just offered water. She kept waking for water though! So i just went cold turkey on the bottle and pat/shushed in the cot when she woke. She cried a bit the first night and has been sleeping through since. It was much easier than i thought. If ds is able to self settle at bedtime like you say i think you won't find it too hard, it's just breaking the assumption he will get milk at night wakings.

Weetabix and bf. .
Put to bed awake. .
Woke up sent dh in with formula - first night had an ounce so knew he wasn't hungry.
Second night sent dh in with water. Had none.
Third night slept through.
Ds was 9 months.

Slept 12 hours a night every single night since..
Now at 2.10 he asks to go to bed (in bottom bunk for 10 months)

I breastfed and when I decided to stop overnight ( 8 months for first and 11 months for second I think) I just swapped to bottle of milk in the night as a test to see if they were actually hungry, my first I think I reduced it gradually over 3 nights then just offered water, my second drank the bottle on the first night then didn't bother with it again, so both obviously just in it for comfort. It didn't stop night wakings but certainly reduced them, just cuddled or rubbed their back when they woke in the night from then on.