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Night weaning for 7 1/2 month old.

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dobeessneeze · 15/02/2012 20:05

I am thinking of night weaning my 7½ month old DD. She wakes every 1½ - 2½ hours throughout the night and it?s really starting to take its toll on me. I have tried only feeding every 4 hours, but I think that?s confusing her (and I just end up giving in and thinking ?that?s close enough? after a couple of hours. We?ve also tried No Cry Sleep Solution and spent several weeks going ?I think things are improving? before realising that actually they weren?t at all. I know it?s not recommended to night wean before 1 year, but she?s a sturdy wee thing (on 91st centile, so the same weight as a 50th-centile 1-year-old), and I am due to return to work in a few months and want to work on our nights while I am still around full time in the daytime rather than suddenly disappearing from her nights as well as her days (plus it would be nice to spend at least part of my maternity leave not in my pyjamas obsessing about when I can get my next nap hit in). We co-sleep part time (she?ll start in her cot and then we?ll get into bed together when she first wakes, which at the moment is usually about 10pm), and ideally I?d like to continue to co-sleep (or at least do sidecar cot) but would reluctantly consider making the switch to full-time cot-sleeping if there was no other way it would work. I was planning to do the Jay Gordon method, but am open to other ideas. Has anyone else out there had success with night weaning before a year? Please tell me your children aren?t scarred for life because of it?

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Emsmaman · 16/02/2012 14:17

I tried the Jay Gordon on my DD when she was 9mo, no feeding between 12 and 6, it did help her shift to taking more solids which was part of the goal, but she still woke up at the same intervals and would end up wiiiide awake from not getting what she wanted. Now I'm trying to pat shh to sleep rather than feed to sleep or cuddle to sleep and I've reverted to feeding a couple of times per night. Sickness and teething aside, she is sleeping slightly longer stretches 3/4/5 hours instead of hourly. I hear her wake up and self settle which is the aim (I think!)

nectarina · 16/02/2012 14:29

yep dd was 8 months
this was how we did it - and just to add, I didn't refuse feeding when she wanted in the night (we just put her down awake)

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/sleep/1394888-What-worked-for-us-Hope-this-helps

I feel the same about no cry sleep solution. its very reassuring to read, but I don't think it does the trick.

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