DS is turning 9 months old this week and I have been hoping that he would wean himself off his 3-4am feeding on his own but he hasn't and I don't know if I should be doing cc to eliminate this habit. Some background: he goes to bed at 7pm and sleeps until 6am with one wake-up (during which he is bf usually between 3 and 4am). He is nursed 4 times during the day and eats what I consider to be a very good amount of cereal and other solid foods during the day. When he wakes at 3 or 4am, it is impossible to settle him any other way and he takes a full feeding (both breasts). The situation currently is certainly not that bad, except I worry about what the "experts" say is perpetuating a night feeding habit -- which eventually will worsen until he starts waking many times per night. The longer I let this continue, I fear, the harder the habit will be to break. Occasionally he will wake up one other time (usually around 1am) and he'll eventually return to sleep without being fed but it may take an hour or more of on-and-off crying before he settles. I haven't tried letting him cry at 3 or 4 am because I worry that he won't return to sleep at all and it will throw off his entire daytime sleep schedule (which is something else that has been a problem and I'm trying to stabilize). All this to say that I am looking for advice from others with babes who still wake them at night past 9months old for feedings. Will this disappear on its own eventually? or do I have to take measures now to avoid a worse problem down the road??