Last weekend I decided enough was enough and cut out my 7mo's night feed, being absolutely confident that a) she is stuffing her face with solids all day b) she was not feeding properly at night and c) she was wholly disinterested in her morning feed.
At first it was a roaring success and remarkably easy. After two nights, a total of 2 hours settling her, and no real bawling from her, she slept through for another two nights. Hallelujah! We heard her wake up a few times and settle herself back to sleep. She also magically became better at settling herself at naps, bedtime and when she woke in the evening. Job done, I thought.
The last couple of nights she has woken once each night and needed settling. Monday night it took 5 minutes (daddy doing the settling), last night it took 30 minutes (me settling her). She did go back to sleep though both times and slept til morning.
What I'm wondering is, is it normal to take a bit of a step backwards with sleep training (if you can call it that)? I was under the impression that once you'd cracked it, you'd cracked it.
Of course, the past two nights are still a vast improvement on, oh, the months and months of nights we had before. But I'm having a small wobble.
Can anyone reassure me? Should we press on?