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Night weaning/reducing night feeds and supply

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saywhatwhatnow · 30/08/2020 12:55

DS is 7 months old and his sleep is pretty horrific. I think mainly because he feeds to sleep a lot (or needs movement or patting if not feeding). I want to tackle it and want to reduce to two night feeds initially. Then hopefully get down to one by 10 months. But I've been reading 'this can be the end of breastfeeding' as reducing feeds overnight can drastically reduce supply. Is this true? Does anyone have any experience? I've never had any issues with supply so far. He's weaning and eating three 'meals' a day, and breastfeeds 4-5 times a day.

Ds1 was formula fed (and a much better sleeper) so it was easy to just 'drop a bottle', but I'm finding it harder this time. I want to set feeds at say 11 and 3 and then use other methods when he awake but not due a feed. Also planning on not feeding to sleep at bedtime but this is hard as he's so exhausted most evenings.

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DorotheaHomeAlone · 30/08/2020 14:47

I’m going through the same process with dc3 right now for the same reason! I’m getting a fair bit of resistance as she likes to feed to sleep but I know from my last two Dc that she really doesn’t need more than a feed a night (if that) - it’s all
about comfort for the other wake ups.

If you have decent supply generally then I really wouldn’t worry. I cut down my other two dc to 2 feeds (bedtime and morning) by 10 months, in preparation for returning to work, and we carried on like that until I weaned fully at 15m and 20m.

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