the downside of sleep training

[hercules]

As i'm going back to work next week i've managed top get dd learn how to fall asleep not on the breast. However she eats very little and drinks very little from a bottle during the day. I had been depending on lots of evening feeds and night feeds for her to catch up and fill up.
But she wont feed to sleep now and settles herself back to sleep in the night refusing any milk.
Arrrrgh!

Hercules,Well done on getting dd to sleep on her own! In theory she should start to take more during the day instead of at night,but I take it that she isn't doing that?

I have a similar problem.

DD has an 8oz bottle when she wakes up,very little water during the day,& has started drinking only an oz of her bedtime bottle.

Like you,the only way I can get her fluid levels up is to sneak in & feed her after she has gone to sleep.She hasn't actually needed night time feeds for about 5 months,so I am worried that she will come to expect them if this carries on.

I am presently trying to shift her mealtimes around,so she is hungrier before bed & will drink more,but she doesn't like getting up early either,so am trying to squeeze 3 meals & 2 bottles into 10 hours.

I shall follow this thread with intrest & hope someone else is more help than I am.

She'll be fine Hercules (and Mirage) - her appetite will adjust and at her age she won't voluntarily die of dehydration because she sleeps all night - I am sure this has never happened in the history of childrearing!
Remember, if she's eating sloppy food she will be getting fluids that way.

i'm jealous of your sleep training success!

It was very stress free spod. She cosleeps and we were out late last Saturday. We went to bed at 10.30pm, dd was tired, happy and full. She has also always slept on her side d=facing me. I just held her in this position with her head above my chest and after a few grumbles she went to sleep.I repeated this everytime she was tired and after a few groans she goes to sleep. No groans during the night. When she wakes she goes back to sleep herself if i'm there. If i'm not there she cries until I lie next to her, put my hand on her and she goes back to sleep straight away.

that is pretty much my sleep training hercules

maybe she seems to not be drinking much but is taking quite abit in.. I am starting to think the same with my dd .. seems like she eats less.. but she is probably just an expert now and a power sucker!!