Quick poll - did your LO sleep better at night after you weaned?

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dd is 23 weeks and she's been waking up lots more in the night for the last month or so. I have a 2 year old too so it's starting to become a bit of a struggle. I am not planning to wean until 26 weeks and am keeping myself going by telling myself things will improve in the sleep department when I wean. I think they did with ds but I can't really remember. What happened with you?

TIA

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No, it made no difference whatsoever, in fact I think it made things worse

yes

Yes it did, not at first but when he got on to a decent amount of solids, he is bottle fed BTW

Nope.

Didn't bloody sleep before or after.

yes

No - we weaned early under the HV's advice because he was so unsettled. But he still slept dreadfully till he was over 1.

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yes yes yes!!!! i told interfering hv that she could have him for night if i didn't wean now. he was 8 weeks old

Nope. Made it worse for a while. Then it got a little bit better.

Night-weaning helped from 11-13 months. At 13 months, everything fell apart then at 15 months, things started to improve again. But he still isn't great now at 17 mo, and I have discovered that the key is exercise. Apart from nap and meal times, I don't let him sit down... [evil cackle emoticon]

Not initially - it really interupted both my twins day and night time sleep. We had just got them sleeping through so was gutted! Came right after about 3 weeks and they have slept through ever since. Both are bottle fed.

Yes

thanks for your responses everyone. a fairly mixed bag. perhaps i shouldn't pin all my hopes on a miraculous improvement!

no, got worse

No, made no difference. Sometimes he sleeps through, sometimes he doesn't. Can't see any rhyme or reason to it.

No, it didn't make a difference until both DD & DS were 10.5 mths. (freakily almost to the day with both) Then both slept through.

damn! Oh well, what will be will be I suppose.

Got worse. She slept 7 til 7 from about 10 weeks to 20 weeks, then gradually got worse. Weaning put the final nail in the sleep coffin. Still appalling at 18 months.

No, it was about the same (possibly slightly worse if anything, but no dramatic change)

No difference with DD [yawn emoticon].

No. Infact it coincided with the time she actually become much worse at sleeping sadly.

dd = yes, started at 4.5 months. Appalling sleeper beforehand. I can even remember the date teh first afternoon sleep she had. 11/9/2001

ds = no difference, started at 5 months and a bit ( reasonably good sleeper anyway)

no difference until he started developing intolerences to certain foods. Then it got worse.

He slept through from 9 weeks until the week before we started him on solids (20 weeks). We have only had two full night's sleep since!!! (now 7 1/2 months)