Night weaning an 11mo help please [grin]

[Notgrownupinmyhead]

Cold turkey or water? DS3 is due in a matter of weeks and its one if the reasons I need to night wean. The other is so he eats more in the day as most ends up on the floor or being full of milk from the night. I dream feed him about 10pm and it hasn't helped.

He's never slept through but hey ho you cant pick a good sleeper you can just help improve the sleep they do have and maybe extend it slightly!

What worked for us was offering warm water in a bottle...and a long cuddle. But DD was a bit younger than yours (7 months).

I added an hour each night before I offered milk so it was a gradual weaning (e.g. night 1 she woke at 2am. I offered water/cuddles and no milk til 3am. Night 2 whatever time she woke up I didn't offer milk until 4am, night 3 none before 5am etc It was hard work as I was probably awake with her longer than I would have been had I fed her to sleep, but it did work and her wakings gradually stretched to 5-6am and then finally to 7am.

She obviously didn't need milk as she wasn't bothered when she didn't get it. She still woke at night for a month or so after we weaned but was much easier to settle as time went on.

I'd never thought of doing it like that. He woke a few times last night but I left him to whinge but obviously gone in if he was crying.

I'd done the water thing a few months ago but he told me off for hours and I gave up after a week.

Sorry, no advice grownup, just shamelessly lurking as I'd be interested in people's responses.

Ha ha, thats ok sloth. Then when they do sleep we'll not cos we'll be wondering when they'll wake!!

Are you dreamfeeding at all?

I started nightweaning at around that age by reducing the length of the feeds by 30 seconds every few nights. They reduced from 3 to 1 feeds over a couple of weeks and eventually I just offered a cuddle. He then started sleeping through! good luck, it's not easy but worth it!

Ill try anything! Im awake every hour or so anyway just would like to try and get him sleeping better

I don't dreamfeed grownup, as never did it when DD was tiny.

The past 2 weeks, so she has gone a full night without a feed (12 hours) on a couple of occasions so I know she can do it. (Was amazing but obviously I was up checking she was ok!). Otherwise she usually wakes twice for a breastfeed. Am thinking I might leave it a little while (she's only 9 months) and then enlist the help of DH to settle her with just water. I go back to work in a couple of weeks though, so I'm hoping she magically starts sleeping through by then!

Well, he had woke twice the last 2 nights and I left him yo whinge for a few mins then he stopped so he definitely doesn't want milk.

They will sleep one day i tell myself!!

Oh that's good! Did he go back to sleep after whinging a bit or did you have to do something else?

Just left him to it.

Hopefully after a few more days we'll be over it. Then will wait til the next ishoo!!

Brilliant. Long may it continue!

We'll see....