Anxiety about stopping breastfeeding

[Underworld345]

11mo has just started sleeping through 7pm to 5am but as night looms, I feel anxiety about the night ahead. I think ita because I got him to sleep through by stopping feeding him to sleep at his night feeds.

So I’m so close to stopping breastfeeding but I feel anxiety about him waking up at night now. Feeding him is how I’ve always dealt with his night wakings and it’s just what I know and had a habit of doing. Now I’m not feeding him, now what?

Guess I’m just not worried I won’t be able to settle him at night without boob.

I want to wean from the breast in a couple months so I'm following with interest!

I've tried night weaning but we've regressed back

The only thing that worked for me was for mu dh to get up with ds as I am sure he could smell milk on me and would cry until I feed him. It took about three weeks.good luck x x

You'll still have a little bit of milk when you stop stored for a few weeks anyways. But you can get him to sleep with a cuddle.

I found that by not feeding at night and not offering the breast enough in the day, my flow became too slow and sluggish and therefore lo self weaned. Well done for getting to 11,months !

I would like to keep night and morning feeds but I think if I know feeding is an option, I’ll just feed him in desperation if he wakes at night. He hasn’t woken in the night for a week now but obviously stuff comes up like teething, illness etc. at least if I stop completely I won’t be tempted to feed st then regress!

@gigi556 most nights my DS was waking at 3am but then staying awake for a up to 2 hours. I was fed up so I tried cc. Didn’t feed and there was literally only one episode of crying for 20 mins in total. The second night he woke but just cried on and off for a bit. I didn’t even have to go in and see him as he was trying to get back to sleep, I didn’t want to disturb him. After that he stopped waking at all. I think he was waking out of habit and he just needed a little push from me to stop

@Underworld345 I've done CC more than once.... DS is really inconsistent. Sometimes sleeps through until 4-5, sometimes up 1-3x. I don't really know what to do other than feed him when he wakes up even though I don't want to.

I'm nursing him right now after DP tried settling him for over an hour. He woke up right before we were trying to go to bed. Think we woke him up as we were chatting outside his room. Ugh!