Babies that still breastfeed at night

[Missnana]

My baby can't seem to wean the night feeding. I'm really not a fan of the cry it out method but I have not had a decent nights sleep since she was born. She wakes up about every two hours, sometimes for a sip and sometimes for a full 20 mins feed. Is this something other mothers are experiencing? She is 11 btw.

Think you meant to put 11 months OP?

My 'baby' is two soon and still feeds at least twice at night - after me posting here smugly about successful night weaning!

Have a look at the Jack Newman night weaning method, or Emma Pickett. If you have a partner that can settle instead of you that helps.

Try cutting out the first night feed for a start, ideally with someone else settling them. They can learn to overcome the rousing and self settle without milk. Be prepared for a fight but you don’t have to leave them, just sit near and ignore or shhh.

Or- try to put something between the feed and sleep, especially at bedtime and the start of the night (I could never stop all night at once). Like stroking and shhhinng. Then remove the feed once you’ve built the new association.

And no, you are not alone. All three of mine needed to be forced to night wean aged 18mo or so once I couldn’t cope any more. I still bf them all until 2+

I night weaned my first using advice from Dr Jay Gordon's website. We started at 13 months and were done by 18m. It's a slow process if you want to avoid tears. And it takes both parents to do.
My 2nd is now 11m and we'll probably do the same process along a similar timeline.

Thank you ladies. I def meant 11 months now . I will try what you have suggested. It's just hard on my boobs now but I'm sure we will figure it out soon. PS she never took the bottle so she has to be on the boobs every feed. 🥺

I waited til after 18 mo and we talked about it a lot then it was 3 nights without tears and done.

Still needs cuddles quite a lot and we still bedshare but it's working for us at 2 y8mo

Had a long conversation with my older sister today who also went through similar situation and she said to take it one day at a time. They will eventually grow out of it. I think she doesn't get satisfied with the night feed before bed, that's why she keeps waking me up almost every 2 hours. So my doc advices me to give her some cereal before bed and see if there is any difference. I tried ones but baby still woke up 5 time in the night 🙈 so will try again tonight and see 🙏

no, she wakes you every two hours as she needs help to go back to sleep due to development. It is a phase and will change.