Night weaning

[Rachel1210]

My LO is almost 6 months old. He’s currently waking twice at night for a feed around 11/12ish 3/4ish and then up for the day at 6. I’ve noticed that the feed he takes at 3/4ish is very small - usually around 1-2oz so I think he’s ready to be weaned off that feed. I was going to take a gradual approach of reducing the feed over the next few nights but I can’t really reduce it any less! So perhaps I’ll offer 2oz tonight and 1oz the following night. From your experience on the night when you offer nothing - is there a lot of crying? How many nights does the crying last? I find it hard to hear my baby cry and I live in a terraced house! But I know he doesn’t need that feed. Also when he wakes in the morning I offer him a feed around 7 and he’s not interested at all. He’s not yet weaned onto solids.

I'm also considering this as our 4 am feed then means she wants no breakfast, which makes me wonder if she still needs it... Seems more like a habit! Shall await some wisdom!

At 6 months over nights feeds are normal. At that age my ff baby had 3 bottles a night and did not cut out night feeds until 13 months. She never had a bottle before sleeping and we coslept so I’m sure it was not a comfort thing.

At 6 months baby should be weaning and should not need feeding through the night at all. Should be sleeping at least a 7 hour stretch

@fantasticdog where are getting that from? NHS advice is to start weaning at around 6 months, OP said her baby isn't 6 months yet. Perfectly normal for babies to wake up for a feed in the night too.

We night weaned at about 5 months because our LO slept through at that stage (wakes up all the time now) but if he did wake, I'd wait about half an hour to see if he could settle without a bottle (but with cuddles), if he couldn't I fed him. If he was really upset he'd get fed straight away! I found I'd have to feed him as soon as we woke up though because he was starving (like his mum!).

Almost 6 months so took that as nearly there so weaning rather than weaned. At this age babies once weaned should be sleeping through the night. Contrary to the threads on sleeping generally it is not normal for babies over 6 months and up to and including the age of 3 not to sleep all night. It is being accepted as part and parcel of having children that they shouldn’t be sleeping all night therefore the expectation that they will sleep all night and don’t need fed is one which very few people seem to have. Baffling