When did your babies drop their night feeds?

[PopcornAndWine]

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.

My son is 17m and still having an average of 3 feeds a night 😴 he's never gone straight through!

@catsjammies that sounds very tough! 😴

@Russell19 yes that's exactly it, it's hearing others at baby groups say their babies have done 7-7 from 12 weeks and looking at you in surprise that yours doesn't!

Earlier than you're experiencing sorry OP. And they both just decided for themselves, rather than me having to do anything.

Are you sure that she's getting enough to eat etc in the day. By that age mine were both well established on solids and packing on the weight, so they just didn't need the calories in the night.

I'd try settling without a feed first. At that age, if mine woke in the night, I'd always try to settle with something else first and then if they didn't settle or woke again, I'd give them a bottle then.

At 6 weeks. Basically all I did was a long walk every afternoon. Discovered this article a few years later which explained it.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1477238/A-daily-dose-of-fresh-air-helps-babies-to-sleep-longer-at-night.html

@Russell19 I get your point. And I didn't explain myself properly to start either. It's pretty shit because I think it all comes down to luck unfortunately and I do think there's more bad sleepers than good as well.
And it's easy to say when I know I was exceptionally lucky, but waking up for a feed isn't the worst. If they wake, feed and go back to sleep fairly quickly once in the night its a lot better than those babies that still wake every hour for feeds at 10 months and I do know some of those

Ariela we tried the same but didn't work for us!

DD - I night weaned at 11m and it worked brilliantly.
DS - Terrible sleeper 5-11 months. Some attempts at night weaning, some progress but variable. Dropped the last night feed himself at 15m.

@PopcornAndWine you are doing nothing wrong but if you wanted to night wean like I did (my first post) then your baby is definitely old enough to not need the nightmm milk. But again, if you don't want to that's fine too. My only thoughts were it would be easier to do it at that age than older.

I stopped at a year. It was tough but I'm glad I did it. Horrible few nights then now sleeps a dream

Thanks everyone, lots to think about. I think I am
leaning towards letting her get to a year and then night weaning her if she is showing no signs of doing it herself.

She does settle without feeding at the start of the night and for naps - always goes into the cot awake.

Solids are generally good, after a shaky start with weaning she usually eats pretty well. Had a bit of a phase of refusing the spoon and throwing finger food in the floor the last week or so but seem to be coming out of that. Not too sure how she is doing size and weight wise though as missed last developmental check due to lockdown.

She probably doesn't need the calories anymore. But of course may still want the feed for comfort, to help her get back to sleep etc.

DD1 was 6.5 months when she stopped feeding at night (bottle fed though). DD2 4 months and not there yet!

I've got 4 and all of them would happily have continued night feeds well into toddlerhood had I not stopped them! Dc1 and dc3 around 13-15 months when I was back at work and went away for a few nights (though kept the bath-boob-brush teeth-book-bed routine for a while after), DS2 was bottle fed and much earlier at 10 months because my HV told me I'd ruin his teeth, and ds4 is nearly 2 and I really have to stop, but he only wakes once now, around 4.30am, and if I bring him into our bed for a feed he has a lovely snuggle and drifts off again, or if I don't feed him is otherwise up for the day 😭

We night weaned just before 2 years. He first slept through at 2.5, and didn't routinely sleep through until 4.5... so I'm definitely in the "it didn't help" camp.