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Did dropping night feeds lead to your baby sleeping through?

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Roar321 · 19/04/2023 10:08

I’ve started gradually night weaning my 11mo as he doesn’t seem hungry when he feeds during the night, he just comfort suckles back to sleep. He has still been BF 3 times per night. I’ve started with resettling for the first feed and he easily goes back to sleep without the feed but it’s been 2 weeks now and he still keeps waking up at the same time. Am I wrong to assume most babies would sleep through that feed once the habit was broken?

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Paddingtonsmarmlade · 19/04/2023 10:11

Slept through more nights than didn't (at 13 and 14 months when night weaned)

AlltheFs · 19/04/2023 10:12

No, you’ll have another sleep regression soon and it will all go to shit I’m afraid! It made absolutely no difference to me whether I fed at night or not. They will just have phases of sleeping well and then not.

DD naturally stopped wanting a feed at around that time but it didn’t change her sleep. She started practicing standing, talking etc all night instead.

AnneLovesGilbert · 19/04/2023 10:13

Made no difference at all. Sorry.

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Hazelnuttella · 19/04/2023 10:15

Are you still feeding to sleep when you put him to bed?
Once he learns to fall asleep by himself he’ll be able to stay asleep (that’s the theory).

CatOnTheChair · 19/04/2023 10:55

DS1 self night weaned at 9 months.
Didn't stop him waking for the next few years.

CoalCraft · 19/04/2023 11:13

It round about halved night wakings with my eldest.

Pizzaandsushi · 19/04/2023 12:05

We found our ds at 11-12 months still needed one night feed in those early hours after sleeping 8-10 hours to begin with. Our health visitor said he shouldn’t need it but we kept it and now at 13 months old he has started sleeping through the night most of the week without a feed.
He will still wake 1-2 times and need our help if teething/ill etc but can be resettled in seconds to a couple of minutes whereas when he was still having that one feed, nothing would work except the feed to get him to stop crying and that’s why I felt he really needed it and wasn’t habit.
I also don’t know how much I believe in sleep associations. We still rock him to sleep every single night before placing him in the cot when he is fully asleep and he is able to self settle throughout the night no problem most days now. I think it’s just time and when they’re ready because we have always rocked him to sleep and when he was younger he woke every 1-3 hours for months and months.

Dwadle · 19/04/2023 12:07

No, not with either

eggboxontop · 19/04/2023 12:10

Yes for us, but only once eating 3 meals a day + a snack (at 10mo).

Dropping night feeds won't work if they are still waking up hungry.

wibblewobbleball · 19/04/2023 12:13

No difference. And waking for a comfort suckle is as valid a need as waking for hunger in my view. I also wouldn't night wean before 12 months as mine weren't reliably eating enough solids by then.

bluesky45 · 19/04/2023 12:18

Not sure for ds1, I didn't do the night feeds as was pregnant with ds2. I know he got up at night once and had a bottle (combi-fed) but not sure if he slept through so the bottle was dropped or the bottle was dropped and then he slept through. I think the first one, he started to sleep through so he didn't have a bottle overnight anymore.
Ds2 was still breastfeeding for comfort about 10 times a night at 18months. I went cold turkey on breastfeeding, didn't introduce a bottle and lo and behold, he slept through from a couple of nights later. We had tried to do this before and he had screamed and screamed for hours even with other comfort, so never managed to stick with it for more than half a night! But at 18months, I was done and he actually was ok with it this time.

DragonbornMum · 19/04/2023 12:19

It 100% did for us. After a week or two of night weaning he was sleeping through. This was 8 months.

Initially he did still need to be resettled, but I did it without feeding for a few days and he just got it. Changed my life.

sophi1207 · 19/04/2023 12:51

Nope, my 2 year old dropped all feeds at night at around 10 months but doesn't sleep through still

AliceTheeCamel · 19/04/2023 12:57

DC1 started sleeping through once I stopped BF altogether (around 15 months old)
DC2 is 2 and still doesn't sleep through 😭 (also stopped BF around 15 months old)

SunnySaturdayMorning · 19/04/2023 13:08

Yes, you are wrong to think that.

Sleeping through the night is developmental. Doesn’t matter how you feed your baby, breast or formula.

Most toddlers are still waking in the night.

Bumbers · 19/04/2023 13:42

100% did for us when stopped night feeding at 15 months. Within a couple of days.

moonseas · 19/04/2023 15:22

Yep, within a few weeks. She still occasionally wakes up once or twice some nights but is also regularly sleeping through. It’s heaven.

I had to stop breastfeeding altogether at 10 months due to a medical issue and she wouldn’t take milk in any other form! This accidental night weaning. However we also moved her into her own room at this time, and she started sleeping on her front. She’s also always eaten really well, loves her food. She’s now 11.5 months. So who’s to say! Maybe it was a combination of all the above.

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