M&S+Bump
M & S + Baby Joe = Family
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I think I just need a bit of support, really. There's tons and tons of information all over t'interwebs about night-weaning an older bf baby - but apparently nobody else is trying to wean an 11-month old off their night-time bottles??
Am I just the only sucker who's been getting up 2-3 a night since forever (and actually considered myself lucky that it was down to just twice!) and expected the baby to drop them by himself when he was ready? Or is there other people out there too, going through this? #1 just stopped by himself at 8 months and slept through ever since, so this is all new to me
Last night was our first night in an organised attempt to get this sproglet to stop eating (and obviously therefore stop waking) through the night. I cut his bottles down to 2oz (usually has 8oz overnight between the two feeds) and refused to feed him any other times apart from the two he usually has, midnight-ish and 4-am - although I caved at 3am last night when he woke up as he'd already been up at 1.30am as well to scream the place down.
He still woke up after the 3am bottle as well but only to cry for a minute then presumably roll over and go back to sleep, then was up at his usual 7am.
I'm counting it as a success since he did actually sleep with half his usual amount of milk, even if he did wake up more often - just hoping it gets better very, very quickly as I'm a zombie today.
Am I just the only sucker who's been getting up 2-3 a night since forever (and actually considered myself lucky that it was down to just twice!) and expected the baby to drop them by himself when he was ready? Or is there other people out there too, going through this? #1 just stopped by himself at 8 months and slept through ever since, so this is all new to me
Last night was our first night in an organised attempt to get this sproglet to stop eating (and obviously therefore stop waking) through the night. I cut his bottles down to 2oz (usually has 8oz overnight between the two feeds) and refused to feed him any other times apart from the two he usually has, midnight-ish and 4-am - although I caved at 3am last night when he woke up as he'd already been up at 1.30am as well to scream the place down.
He still woke up after the 3am bottle as well but only to cry for a minute then presumably roll over and go back to sleep, then was up at his usual 7am.
I'm counting it as a success since he did actually sleep with half his usual amount of milk, even if he did wake up more often - just hoping it gets better very, very quickly as I'm a zombie today.