When did your babies drop their night feeds?

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DD is 10.5 months. I am trying to stick to just one night feed, if she wakes up more than once it's cuddles/patting/rocking back to sleep.

Guidelines etc say they no longer need night feeds at this age. So I don't know if I should try and phase them out or just leave it and hope she starts sleeping through at some point! She has so far slept through the night a grand total of once.

I’m sorry, I can’t answer your question, but I’m following with interest as I breastfeed my baby, 4 months, and I have no idea when she technically ‘doesn’t need’ calories overnight anymore. But when she is able to go the full night without a feed I’d definitely like to work towards that!

My baby was about 10 months when I decided no more night feeds. My husband went into him each time he woke that night (about 3 or 4 times) and he settled for him really well and barely cried. It took about 3 or 4 nights. After that we never looked back and he's slept through probably 90% of nights since. The times he has woken were very easy to settle him without feeding.

About a year.

When forced!

About 15 months each time I think.

Was surprisingly easy although they both continued to wake at night for years afterwards....

But she stopped all by herself, I didn't try to stop them and was happy doing them. She didn't 'need' them in a calorie sense for quite a while before, so if I'd wanted to I'm sure I could have stopped earlier.

Thanks all. I am pretty sure she doesn't really 'need' them, she does usually settle pretty quickly with a cuddle (although sometimes not!).

I found holding them up on my shoulder insteadnof the feeding position worked. As did offering water.

Probably around 8 months she naturally just stopped needing it and was sleeping through. If she does wake through the night a dummy will settle her or she will self settle. If that doesn’t settle her I know she’s hungry.

She’s 10 months now, if she’s hungry I’ll give her milk but it’s very very rare now!

Hmmmm, kind of depends on what you mean by night feeds.

Since about 8 weeks, he goes down at 7pm and I do a dream feed at 9/10pm and he sleeps through until 6/7am

@Eggcellent29 that sounds the dream.

Mine is 12 weeks and I have stopped walking for the dream feed as she was so sleepy it was so hard to wake her and she only took about 2 ounces. I now let her wake on her own.

The other night she woke at midnight then 5am. Last night she woke at 10.30pm then 2.30M but she then slept in until 7.30am.
I don't think she really needs the second feed so will think about dropping that soon.

@Teacaketotty she has never taken a dummy unfortunately!

@Eggcellent29 you are very lucky!

I wish I could see some patterns behind her good and bad nights I.e. is it related to how she has napped during the day but it doesn't seem to be.

I think if I thought phasing out night feeds would greatly improve the chances of her sleeping through then I would do it but I'm not sure it will!

Mine didn't have a night feed after 9 days old

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Mine didn't have a night feed after 9 days old

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Dd was 18 months when I night weaned. She was bf and it was only ever for a couple of minutes for comforting back to sleep, but I thought it would improve her sleep.

Sadly she didn’t sleep through until she was 2, it just took longer and was more difficult without feeding!

“Mine didn't have a night feed after 9 days old”

Surely a nine day old needs fed through the night?

When I stopped breastfeeding her when she was 18.5 months old!

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I don't see why not. It highlights that all babies are completely different. One baby may require night feeds up until a year or later, others obviously don't. But it's definitely not a one size fits all

I don't really mind the night feed as she is usually pretty quick as pp have said. And from others experience there is certainly no guarantee dropping it would mean she would sleep better.

It is not natural for a 9 day old to not feed in the night....

It was natural for mine not to, she never wanted to feed at night. At first I obviously tried to wake her to feed as I thought babies at that age needed to feed through the night, but she refused to feed when I woke her so I'm not sure what I should have done instead.

2.5 years. Breasted.

From about 4 months my DD didnt have a feed between 10:30pm and 5:30am. Of course there were nights where she woke up at about 2 and had a bottle but they became rarer and rarer pretty quickly from 16 weeks. From about 7 months she went from 7:30pm to 6am ish. She could have dropped that 10:30pm feed earlier I think but I kept picking her up and giving it to her as a dream feed. One night I just didnt and she didnt wale til 6ish. She was FF from day 1.

All three of mine was 4 months. But it varies so wide

About 15 weeks old with my second child. (On a reflux formula)
2 years with my first.

@updownleftrightstart I'm sorry, not saying you should have done differently. Just don't think that helps the OP when she hasn't had a full night sleep for over 10 months. I was in her shoes and was starting to think something was wrong with my parenting when I heard other mums saying how well their children sleep at baby groups. It really dragged me down.