Nightweaning success!

[tiredpooky]

wanted to share that nightweaning been so much easier than expected
why didnt i do it before?
sod ncss found ncss hard , there i was was sticking my glasses on and jotting down times in the dark with ncss

basically DD 14m was taking 3-8bfs a night and cosleeping from 1st wakening

did 2 night of first feed only now done 3 nights no feeds at all

still waking, got quite restless and angry , grizzly on and off, but seems to be resigned -i tell her - go sleep, no milk

cant believe night feeds are over end of an era

Firstly, congratulations! Second, please give more detail as I'm going to copy you! My dd will be 12m in 3 weeks. Am sick and tired of hauling my sorry behind out of bed to stagger into the nursery every couple of hours.

How did the first two nights in particular go? How much crying/yelling/banging cot did she do? Did you leave the room after you told her no milk? Please tell me how you did it! Am really excited now at the thought of a good night's sleep!

Woohoo, tiredpooky - that is fantastic.

Well Done tiredpooky

I also did this last month with my 14month DD. Was actually much easier than I ever expected and have now have had a whole month of 'solid' nights sleep..... arhh amazing

I just stopped all night bf and will only her bring into our bed when morning. I gave her a back rub, tried to calm her and then lie back to sleep in cot. I'd put it off for months thinking we were going to have weeks of crying/pain but within 3 nights slept through

TOMATOQUEEN, ah theres the rub - shes still cosleeping from first awakening, but my hope is as she gets better going to sleep on her own she'll sleep in cot later and later, or else when we have more energy will do cot training
anyway i brought her in bed night 1 and she was restless /grizzly for about 1.5h at first milk refusal, woke about 4 x, by night 3 she accepted no milk and just got angry about 5am, each wakening she settled within 5-10m, but next to me (tbh if we tried cot settling as well i think we'd all have been frazzled), 2 n ago she only woke once , but 4 x last night, few mins to 15m each time, accepts the no milk thing tho so much more readily than i expected