if you b/fed and DIDN'T do cc/pupd/sleep training, when did you dcs sleep through/stop night feeding?

[LadySanders]

ds2 is nearly 7 months and still waking 2-3 hourly for feeds.

the world and his dog (and my dp and his step mother) seem to think i am insane for not wanting to do any 'sleep training' that involves him crying. we tried pupd and he never stopped crying long enough to put him down... went on for 4 hours, i gave up and fed him which he gratefully received.

i seem to remember that ds1 (now 7 hence why i've forgotten) eventually just gave up the night feeds and slept around a year old.

any thoughts?

DD about 18 months IIRC.
DS is 14 months and will usually go to 5-6 ish, feed and go back to sleep.

Just reading through the rest of the thread. Interesting about the negative associations. DD would often ask to go to bed, even now she goes off happily most nights.

She was a pretty terible sleeper when a baby, she would wake up 40 minutes after you put her to sleep, that kind of thing. She's 4 now and sleeps really soundly.

You will probably find lots of people who sleep trained have good sleepers too though.

DS2 started sleeping through at 14 mths after he had an operation on his ears for grommits.

He has a dummy and I knew that when he was night-waking it was actually because he was in pain and needed comfort.

For naps he has always gone down happily without any fuss (but with DS1 we were up and down the stairs non-stop).

I think there's something in this "positive association" thing - DS2 has just moved into a "big bed" at 18mths - he can now come in at 6am for a feed and then trots off back to his bed alone!

DD1 stopped about a year but I did wean her off by BFing when she wanted but timing it and cutting down the time till she was getting less and less of a full tummy. She didn't seem to mind and it was slow and painless.

DD2 packed it in about a year too, didn't bother to do the timing thing with her, she seemed to be tailing off of her own accord. Both woke up about 6, 6.30 and came in bed for early morning feed and back to sleep for ages after this (DD2 still does) but I happily classed it as no night feeds.

About 13 or 14 months.

DD1 10-11 months. Stopped bf at 14 months (she never accepted the bottle so fed mostly at night, until she suddenly stopped).
DD2, now nearly 12 months, no chance - still wakes up like clockwork every 3 hours. But she drinks 2 bottles a day, and she's a bigger baby.
It's a complete mystery...

hope your LO sleeps through soon!

DD1 was about 8 months, but I was pg again, and wanted to stop bfing, so I think I weaned her off altogether.

DS was about 12 months when he started to sleep through, but has always wanted bf (and now cm) if he wakes in the night, and I still give it at 2.6

11.5 months. I'm lucky; everyone around me (work, mostly) told me how good that was, rather than undermining my choices.

(Boss later remarked I didn't know I was born, his DSs didn't sleep through until 3+ )

i made an executive decision and just had ds2 in bed with me the last 2 nights so at least i'm not getting up & down at every feed... that made it a bit less arduous...

Hi there, my first was three months! Sadly second much more awkward, now 15 months and still wants a night feed. Have to say she was a tinker to kick off breastfeeding also. My eldest now 4 and just started school, so although my health visitor has suggested CC I am just going for what gives us all the best night's sleep for the whole family. Eventually they crack it.

dd stopped of her own accord last christmas eve, was her christmas present to us

she was 11 months

DD1 was 12 weeks (7pm to 7am)
DS1 was 14 weeks (but then woke with eczema & reflux instead)
DD2 was 12 weeks
DS2 was 12 weeks

Aren't I a lucky cow?

Well, dd did at maybe 10 months? - she'd slept 10-7 for ages, and then it all went very pear shaped at about 6 months. We did "sleep train" though, with no crying involved, at about 7-8 months as at that point she gave up feeding to sleep - it was very drawn out gentle cuddling comforting patting singing stuff, and just gradually doing less and less. worked really well, and she's very happy and calm at bedtime. We liked it too - never wanted to leave her to cry.

dd is 14mo and still waking 4, 5 or 6 times a night. we tried sleep training the other day and managed 20 minutes before deciding it wasn't for us. horrible.

am going to jinx my self but ds2 is 8 months and gone from 8 to 6.30 last 2 nights..... >

He wont be left alone in the day even for naps.

And yes the whole world and its mother seem to think that he should have been sleeping through etc etc.. but tis a load of old tosh. He'll do what he wants. Babies cant 'wake' themselves up, they are woken by internal upset or outside disurbance. That the mantra i use when restless nights! Off to bed now x