Night weaning

[gingmg]

Oh no. Sorry to see this. Hope he feels better soon.

 

[greekgirl]

thanks for your wishes. he is better and we are no longer breastfeeding it was too painful and pussy. he still pulls on my shirt and cries a bit but settles for a bottle quickly now. it took a lot of patience, persistance, hugs and "mommy still love you"'s and other comforting words and lots of tears on both sides but we got through the hardest part. still working through and my sores have not cleared up yet but at least my little man is well and smiling and eating again so that's a relief. it was a shocker for him but he is handling it well it seems.

 

[c1403]

My dad is 16 months and we haven't night weaned. I would like too but she wakes up at least once if not twice and I cannot get her back to sleep unless I feed her and she then wakes the whole house crying....Would love to give it a miss and her go a whole night. Currently she wakes up around 10.30 and 3am after a 7pm bedtime.

 

[noon_child]

My dad is 16 months and we haven't night weaned. I would like too but she wakes up at least once if not twice and I cannot get her back to sleep unless I feed her and she then wakes the whole house crying....Would love to give it a miss and her go a whole night. Currently she wakes up around 10.30 and 3am after a 7pm bedtime.

Just be aware that sometimes removing the feeding doesn't mean removing the waking, unfortunately. Toddlers wake more frequently once they start developing insecurities, fears, teething etc. and sometimes breastfeeding is the easiest solution to night waking and not the cause.

 

[c1403]

My dad is 16 months and we haven't night weaned. I would like too but she wakes up at least once if not twice and I cannot get her back to sleep unless I feed her and she then wakes the whole house crying....Would love to give it a miss and her go a whole night. Currently she wakes up around 10.30 and 3am after a 7pm bedtime.

My dad...lol clearly I meant my DD

 

[x_WelshGirl_x]

I wanted to nightwean my dd over christmas while my ds was off school, but she was poorly with a cough and a cold so that never happened. It's difficult while my ds has school because she will cry and wake him up. They are both in our bed dd used to be good falling asleep in her cot at bedtime, I dont know what happened. We will be attempting to night wean her and get her in her cot over the easter holidays but will be looking for ideas here.

 

[gingmg]

We are making major strides forward in the night weaning department. For the past few months, on some of the night wakings, I would tell my son that "Mommy's milk is sleeping" or "we can nurse when the sun comes up". About 10% of the time he would go right back to sleep with just a cuddle, no fussing. The rest of the time I would still nurse him back to sleep. Slowly, as the months have gone on he is excepting this response more and more. Then I bought the book "Sally weans from night nursing" and we've reading it for the past few weeks. The past two nights he hasn't nursed at all overnight. I wanted to gently night wean, and I think it has gone as gently as possible. It has taken months, but I feel like I've been fair to his needs and didn't push before he was ready. I don't know yet if we have officially night weaned, but this is the closest we have come. I probably will still continue to do what I've been doing. If he needs to nurse, I'll nurse him, but if he rolls over and goes back to sleep with back rubbing, then I'll do that. Just thought I'd update.

 

[Literati_Love]

Good for you! I'm glad you've found a method of night weaning you're comfortable with.