Night-weaning our 13mo starts TONIGHT!

[ellesabe]

Be honest with me - how bad is it going to be?

Dh has tentatively agreed to resettle her every time she wakes up. And being the genius that he is, he just woke her up by rattling keys outside her bedroom door. So he's currently being screamed at in the bedroom.

I'm very excited about the fact that I may not have to get out of bed tonight but it's going to be horrendous isn't it?

Ate you going cold turkey?

Drink some so you don't hear anything!

More helpfully, we night weaned DD at 10mo, had gradually reduced her milk to almost nothing. last week of it we offered water, sometimes accepted, more often disdained! When it came to biting the bullet we held her when she cried and she was sleeping through two nights later - so I don't think leaving in cot to cry is critical.

Also don 't tentatively agree anything - go into it with iron will or she will break you and you'll scream at each other while you feed her this absolutely did not happen in our house, oh no

Oh, I really need to do this! 13 month old DS wakes at 2 and ends up in beside us, on the boob half the night! We have half heartedly attempted it but its so hard listening to the crying when ur working the next day. Good luck and ill be I interested others how u do!

Yes we're going cold turkey and no we can't leave her to cry in her cot as she'd wake the 3yo in the bunk underneath.

Well...dh by some miracle managed to get her back to sleep within TEN MINUTES!

I have high hopes for the rest of the night and I'm sure we'll be cursing ourselves for not having done this sooner.

Stupid ipad! Interested in hearing how you get on

Ooh, good luck!

Likewise, we've often found that with me DD will demand a bf but with DH she knows it isn't an option and is OK with that. (Unfair!)

Singing while rocking DD is a good way to get her to sleep if she's upset. (Not sure if that would wake your 3yo, though?)

Well last night wasn't toooo bad.

Dh obviously thought the world was about to end but honestly it didn't seem any worse than the previous five nights and I actually had to wake her up this morning for a feed before I went to work.

Let's see what happens tonight!

This is a good method to follow, like a gentle method: drjaygordon.com/attachment/sleeppattern.html

We had good results from this and still continued to breastfeed during the day

Quick update!

We're three nights in and she's getting better.

She only woke once last night at 2am, was awake with dh for 90 mins then slept until 8:45am!

Can I join in?? Started the no milk in the night thing for my 14 month old as soon as we hit Xmas holidays- must have it sorted before work starts up again! Last night was a particularly low point with dd2 awake and intermittently crying between 4 and 7...

Ellesabe, have you got it cracked yet?

We did this at 14 months and it was fairly pain free, no screaming.