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STOPPING THE NIGHT FEED?????

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BandofMothers · 09/05/2007 16:19

Now that DD2 is 9 mths old I have been toying with the idea of stopping the night feed. She will wake anywhere from 1 to 6, and want bfing.
However I don't think she's hungry when she wakes early in the night, but wants the boob as habit.
If I do it I plan to give her water instead, with a cuddle, and see if she starts to think it's not worth waking up for and start sleeping thru.

What did everyone else do, at what age and with what success?????

TIA

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olivo · 09/05/2007 16:22

have just answered another one like this- have a look for the other thread too!! at around 6 months, i was convinced my dd wanted the boob not the milk, and so i just picked her up and cuddled her before putting her back down. it didnt take long before she slept through.
good luck

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BandofMothers · 09/05/2007 16:47

Hmm, Thank you. Will look out for the other one.

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BandofMothers · 10/05/2007 07:54

So are all your dc's still night feeding at 3/4yo????

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LilRedWG · 10/05/2007 09:35

BUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please help BoM!

LilRedWG · 10/05/2007 09:41

C'mon - someone must know something!!!!!!!!

emat · 10/05/2007 10:03

I did it with dd. I just kept offering her a drink of water in a non spill cup. She was not one bit happy but it only took 3 nights for the hunger she had for that feed to end.

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BandofMothers · 10/05/2007 10:07

Thanks emat, how old was she. I don't think she is hungry, just habit.

DD2 would be most put out. >

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emat · 10/05/2007 10:14

She was 8 months. I had had enough of bfing at that time because she seemed to be waking a LOT to use me as a soother. I hadn't given her one so she was using me.
Eventually she resigned herself to the fact that she wouldn't be getting snuggles in the night and was easier to get back to sleep if she woke.
I have a feeling I put the Avent non spill cup in the cot with her but that's probably really dangerous so I wouldn't advocate it

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BandofMothers · 10/05/2007 10:19

Don't think it would hurt her having a cup at her age, would it. In bed I mean.
Hmm, dd2 is quite smart so hopefully will get it quickly once I start. She is also very stubborn tho

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cathcart · 10/05/2007 10:20

mmmm tv v

sorry - that is all dd cared to say! see you in the tea shop later!

emat · 10/05/2007 10:27

cathcart- maybe your dd was suggesting tv in the bedroom to take her mind off waking her mum. Hmmmmm, she may have something there

LilRedWG · 10/05/2007 15:34

Any more info/ideas for my pal BoM?

cathcart · 10/05/2007 17:04

bump

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BandofMothers · 10/05/2007 19:40

Aah, thanks for bumping guys.

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LilRedWG · 10/05/2007 22:05

Buuuuummmmppppppppppppppppp!

cruisemum1 · 11/05/2007 11:24

i did shhh/pat for the middle of nite wakings. he wakes once but i dont bf back tosleep. he does complain but not for long. he is 8mths

cruisemum1 · 11/05/2007 14:59

so really, I did the same as olivo. But.....I had done some cc for the early evenigns as my ds would not settle at bedtime and I had to keep offering boob for him to get back to sleepa nd then he would wake anywhere from 2 - 6 times between 10pm and 7am. Horrid but necessary as i was gong mad with lack of sleep! hth

Tapster · 11/05/2007 15:19

Get your partner to go in instead of you - worked in my case but at 6months and hardly eating solids I am doing 1 night feed.

usandnosleep · 11/05/2007 15:33

My DS is 9 months and I've been thinking about doing this but I'm sure he knows as ever since I made the decision he has had a cold, come down with croup, stopped eating as many solids and he now has a chest infection
Do you think he's playing for time?..........

cruisemum1 · 11/05/2007 16:00

usandnosleep - definitely! . devious little monkey

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BandofMothers · 12/05/2007 08:08

DH isn't always here, and if I try pat/ssh, she screams bloody murder and thrashes around like she's being burned or something. Complete outrage. If I didn't have dd1 it might be different, but I can't leave her like that it makes me
Plus she's really loud

Damn it. Bearing in mind I haven't decided what and when to do it, and wont be strict til I decide, last night she woke at 3, and I bf her. She had at least 10 mins on each then was quite cross when I took her off. Offered some water too, which she gulped. Then when she was wiggling to get back into boob position I held her quite tight, whilst patting her back and eventually she lay still. I put her in her cot and she chuntered for about 20 mins then fell asleep again.
So she's not too bad and will give in, but then she had already had boob.
Still undecided. But thanks, it's still very helpful to hear other people's stories of it.

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BandofMothers · 12/05/2007 08:09

LOL, usandnosleep.
Can't do it to her yet either as she is now breaking her top teeth thru
They are devious.

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cruisemum1 · 12/05/2007 09:29

BoM-I did it with my dd here and she didn't hear a thing!

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BandofMothers · 12/05/2007 09:35

I must admit that if dd2 goes to bed after dd1 already asleep and she cries it doesn't wake her, but I wonder if it would at 3-5am.

Is she in a different room?? Cos dd2 is still next to my bed.

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cruisemum1 · 12/05/2007 10:14

my ds is in his own room and dd is 9 so in her own room too.