Still doing nightfeeds at 14 month?!

[MellowBird85]

Sleep has never come easy for DS so I resorted to sleep training involving CC when he was about 8 months as it was killing me. He was then doing 7:30pm - 6am regularly. However he recently had his 12 month jabs (on top of a cold)...that night he didn’t go to sleep until 4am. It was hell on earth. He’s been unsettled ever since and the only thing that settles him is a bottle so, after persevering with water, calpol, etc first, I end up caving in. I’m not happy about it though as I’m worried it’ll form bad habits. It’s also not good for his teeth. If someone told me I’d still be doing night feeds 14 months in I might’ve reconsidered this motherhood malark!

WWYD?

@MellowBird85 my first dc was 15 months when night feeds stopped, it's a killer, I basically went cold turkey and only offered water. Took 2 almost 3 weeks and then finally she slept through.

@Ellieboolou33 thanks for your reply. Yes that’s what we did a couple of months ago, after I went in one morning and he was covered in sour milk which he’d thrown up and a full, stinking nappy (night feeds make him poo!) I turned round to my DH and said “no more, even if it means putting earplugs in”. I suppose this time, because he’s been ill, I just wanted to do anything to make him feel better. Can I ask how you got on when you cut out night feeds cold turkey? Did your LO cry a lot?

I still do and will continue to do nightly breast feeds.

Mine didn't give up until 18 months - but he was genuinely hungry - I remember even at 2 or 3 he'd wake up in the night famished fairly often, and you could hear his stomach groaning for food - we used to keep a banana on the bedside table, he'd eat it, and go straight back to sleep happy until morning. Grew out of it by the time he was about 5.

(DS2 on the other hand must have the stomach capacity of an elephant - he gave up night feeds before he was 6 months!)

@MellowBird85 yes unfortunately she did cry a lot which is why I ended up co sleeping

The first week I just offered water and sat next to cot, 2nd week the same, in the end i was so exhausted that I lay her down with me in my bed and she used to sleep all through. It's not for everyone (co sleeping) but I was so relieved at getting a full nights unbroken sleep that we kept her in bed with us. She moved to her own room when she was 3 with no problems.

I night weaned my third dd off bf at 14 months. My twins were night fed until they were 3. My baby is now 1 and feeds a lot at night.

I think it takes 3 nights of a lot of crying, but then it’s done. I do think you should cuddle/stroke/rock/pat them though, not just leave them to cry.

Didn't night wean DS til 21 mo and it was very gently done. But I was cosleeping and was never going to sleep train in any form. It took 3 nights but virtually no crying. There doesn't have to be crying