12 month old night feed

[charadam]

Baby who is cmpa just changed from neocate to oat milk and she bloody loves the stuff so much more than her prescription milk!

Course it tasters so much nicer

She still wakes for night feed! Difference of opinions wether I should have stopped sooner but they I haven't...and here I we are

How do I wean her off? Or do I keep going?

My first dropped her night feed at 9months

But baby doenst eat too well - won't tolerate baby led even though I offer every day but loves getting fed and eats what we eat pretty much

She sleeps 7-6/7 with a night feed around 1-3am

She's slept through around 5 times 7-5am about 5 times but generally wants a bottle

What would you do? X

I've not stopped until now as she sleeps 12-13 hours some nights and wakes for less than 10 mins for her night feed so that's why I don't mind

But back to work and having broken sleep it would be nice to try wean her

I find it so hard to get back to sleep after which is what I mean about broken sleep

She's on 75th centile and weight gain has been consistent and good despite being cmpa previous reflux etc so I've always worried about her weight gain but get her weighed often and she's all good x

Sounds like she is hungry. I would just keep feeding her. I would also be encouraging high fat/protein snacks and offering supper before bed.

I'd still do the night feed especially if it's only 10 mins. Can you alternate with your partner?

It will phase out as she starts to eat more in the day.

Yeah I think it's hunger - she's just not that fussed in the day though so it's hard to up for , But I'll give it a good go
Definitely needs to up her day time foods
I'll try a super before her as sometimes she point blank refuses any dinner or only wants a few mouthfuls. Which was fine at first but now she's 12m I know she should be eating more

He does his fair share - probably more than most from what I've read on here but with his work and hours he does it's only a night a week where we both share one lay in at the weekend or sometimes every other weekend which he also needs to so we are both shattered - he works shifts so it's not even set days and works some weekends and is off in the week instead

I would give her the bottle 12 months is a baby. Can you try some sort of baby porridge on a evening to fill her?

Porridge mushed with a banana before bed worked for me but yours may not eat that...

Maybe try to get them drinking milk from a cup, that way they will slowly have less milk and be more 'food hungry'

Why oats and not soya? Oats is not nutritious enough. Low in fat and proteins. Also less iron and potassium .
BLW is not something for every baby. If she prefers being fed, focus on that. Make her a good dinner.

You could try a df. So a feed before you go to bed so 10/11 depending of a night owl

This should then Help her sleep till 7

Df aren't always recommended as can also stop the baby's natural sleep pattern but equally some parents I work for (I'm a maternity nurse) like a df as they then Know they will get a 99% guaranteed 11/7 sleep from their baby which means they will get the same and feel refreshed for work the nights I'm not there

Mine dropped her night feed by herself at around 14 months. I think it's a hunger thing as mine def was waking up for hunger until then. Maybe it is also a developmental thing that at some point they just grow out of it.

I wouldn’t worry about it. My boy was exactly the same. Cmpa and at 12 months still had that one night feed around 3-4am. The health visitor said he didn’t need it but I think he did. He always drank it all. Went straight back to sleep and woke up at a much better time than without it. Plus when I’d try settling him without it, it would takes ages and he’d wake again 30 minutes later.
at 13-14 months old he started dropping it himself until he gave it up completely. We did nothing different. Didn’t dilute it or reduce the amount. He just stopped taking it.
we have replaced it with a straw cup of water in his cot in case he is thirsty which he sometimes takes sips of in those early hours.

I’d still do the night feed. Otherwise she will probably wake anyway and you’ll be awake for much longer trying to settle her in other ways.

@Cormoran not true. They make fortified oat milk and whole oat milk with an in increased fat content. Plus babies with cmpa are also more likely to also have a soya allergy so oat is a recommended alternative for cmpa babies. This is information given by Alder Hey Children’s hospital for babies with cmpa.

Because my nutritionist said oat milk is better infact compared to soya hardly any difference

We did a DF right up until she moved to her room but just figured it felt wrong waking her

I think this and from reading here and thinking I'm am quite happy continuing the bottle

Like pp said she's still a baby and it's not her fault I can't get back to sleep! X

My LO just turned a year old and she still has a night feed, she eats like a horse but is definitely still hungry in the night. My first dropped them by himself at around 18 months so I'm just gonna hope she'll do the same!

@charadam you don't wake them for a df. Literally feed. Esp at this age

May be worth a try then you know you should get 11/7 sleep esp as you have work

@Blondeshavemorefun ah yeah I know we used to do it and DF worked great
I mean I just don't like to disturb her
Plus I go to bed 9/10 some nights it wouldn't really work when she goes to bed at 7pm
But I'll try feeding her up more in the day and a tea later to bed

Least I know others babies still had feeds at this stage - all my friends babies have dropped theirs months ago!

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This is what I'm hoping x