To continue night weaning if baby has committed before bed?

[Wirelessbird]

Hi guys,

My partner and I started night weaning our 15 month old two nights ago. Tonight she vomited three times as we tried to put her down. I don’t think she is ill, I think she ate too much at dinner due to the change in feeding and was simply too full. That being said I am now very apprehensive to continue with night weaning.

On one hand I am loathed to take a step back, it has taken quite a long time to get to the stage I am prepared to go through the upset of weaning her. But on the other I am now worried she will be hungry in the night.

Any advice!

Why would you wean her when you think it's causing problems? Try again in a month or so.
Personally I think 15 months is very young to night wean, I did DD at 18 months and later regretted it so did it at 2 years with DS which felt much better.

Thanks for the comment @zurala! Can I ask why you regretted it? Yes I have been back and forth on it but have started to feel a bit like I’m being used as a dummy rather than fulfilling any nutritional requirements. But it’s a very confusing decision to make. She responded much better than I thought initially.

I think the vomiting was overeating, she isn’t usually sick though.

If you're only two nights in, honestly I'd feed tonight (and I night weaned at 11 months so I don't think you're doing it too early!) She'll be thirsty and hungry from vomiting and probably feeling rubbish and you can start again in a few days when she's not been sick.

I would feed tonight. If she is ill then some nice antibodies from you might help aswell as comfort and reasurrance, and if not then she may need to rehydrate a bit. You are only 2 days in so I don't think it's disastrous to try again next week if need be.

Babies can be night weaned from 6 months, I say that as someone still bf an 18 month old

Do you think she needs the milk overnight or is she waking up out of habit? I was really worried about stopping bf completely at 10 months (I was about to start chemo so had no choice) but I'd also felt that my baby had been waking up for a feed during the night as a habit but hadn't really taken much milk for a few weeks before then. When I had to stop we had a big plan with expressed milk etc (I'd built up a mammoth stash) and he didn't even wake up for a feed after the first night... So that was that!!

(I realise that all babies are different though, just putting out a different opinion to those who are saying you're doing it too early)