Did weaning help your DC to sleep better?

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I'm starting to wean our 6 month old DD and hoping it will help her sleep. Did it help any of you? What kind of foods if so?

My two slept through the night from 8 weeks, which was when they started solids. This was 30 years ago, and they were bottle fed.
I used dummies with both of them, so they were never “fed to sleep” - if they woke up, they just groped about for their dummy which had fallen out of their mouth, and popped it back in themselves with a little sigh of contentment! I had the cot next to my bed so I could keep an eye on them, and they could feel secure from knowing I was beside them.

No. The only thing that helped was him getting older.

It didn’t make a blind bit of difference. Dd didn’t sleep through reliably till 2.

Absolutely not. In fact she got worse at sleeping (she was 1 yesterday) obviously I don't think it's connected to weaning but wasn't the answer to sleep problems as everyone told me it would be.

Nope,Not at all. I think they sleep through when they are ready too.

It did with my first, but that was because as a PP mentioned, if he'd had three decent solid meals plus 4 breastfeeds during the day I felt more confident that he probably wasn't waking from hunger every two hours at night. So I started sending in my husband instead which led to night weaning at 7 months and sleeping through after just a couple of nights. Plus weaning also coincided with us moving him to a cot in his own room which probably also helped his sleep as we weren't disturbing him.

Second child still wakes in the night now and he's 4 so solids definitely didn't help 😂
He was a better sleeper as a baby than he is now I think...

Nope, it got worse to start with. I think because she was swallowing lots of air because she wasn’t very good at swallowing solids, so then she’d be horrifically windy. So that it only messed up naps rather than night sleep, we didn’t do dinner for quite a while, she only had solids at breakfast and lunchtime!

Yes definitely. On about 3 night feeds by 4 months old (my milk didn’t keep them going for long). Lost a night feed with each meal introduced. Only drawback when they slept through they woke at 5.00 am.

Nope, got worse, so much so that we started bed sharing!

No, made no difference to any of mine. One already slept through, one ate loads but was still up 3-4 times a night until age 2, one didn't sleep through till 4.5!!