12 hours by 12 week method

amother

Thu, Jan 02 2025, 2:49 pm

Has anyone been successful at this while nursing ? The book seems to be geared more towards bottle fed babies.
I’d love to hear success stories and hacks ! Thanks !

amother

Brass ↓

Thu, Jan 02 2025, 2:51 pm

Once baby is sleeping 12 hours I lost most of my milk. I also work full time so was only nursing once or twice a day and pumping other 2 xs. It's so worth it
Method really works

amother

Firebrick ↓

Thu, Jan 02 2025, 2:55 pm

Yes
My baby doesn’t sleep every night, if something is bothering him (sick, teething etc) BUT for the most part has been sleeping straight since about 3/4 months
I breastfeed

amother

↑ Brass

Thu, Jan 02 2025, 2:55 pm

amother Offwhite wrote:

I read somewhere that it works around 25% of the time.

I did it with all my kids and lots of friends as well. I don't know anyone that it didn't work unless they were too chicken and didn't follow everything

amother

NeonYellow ↓

Thu, Jan 02 2025, 3:00 pm

I tried it with my youngest, who was almost exclusively breastfed. It worked to some extent, but I noticed a couple of things that couldn’t work for me at all times.

Firstly, you need to be extremely consistent and when also dealing with a family, who each have their own needs, focusing on feedings and holding off sleep time can be very challenging. Perhaps when you have help in the form of a nurse, it can be implemented a lot more accurately.

Additionally, I’m not sure if it had anything to do with the above-mentioned methods, but as soon as I moved my baby out of my room, at 4m, he gave me a lot longer stretches at night but nowhere near 12 hours.

amother

Clematis

Thu, Jan 02 2025, 3:48 pm

my sil just gave me the book, she just did it on her twins who she bf and formula feeds.
im excited to give it a try, due in march. even if my baby does a 5-6 hr stretch it will be better than its older siblings.

LL2

Thu, Jan 02 2025, 5:05 pm

amother Firebrick wrote:

Yes
My baby doesn’t sleep every night, if something is bothering him (sick, teething etc) BUT for the most part has been sleeping straight since about 3/4 months
I breastfeed

So how did you do it ? Meaning how do I know if my baby is taking 8 oz if she’s breastfeeding ? My other question (where I’ve had issue in the past) is what happens when the baby wakes and it’s not feeding time. I know the author provides a toolbox of things to stall the baby but I haven’t found them successful …. What worked for you

amother

↑ NeonYellow

Thu, Jan 02 2025, 5:27 pm

LL2 wrote:

In terms of breasfeeding amounts, we assume baby will eat as much as it needs and ur body will provide. Generally if baby is content, we can safely assume that thats true.

As far as baby waking up before feeding time, thats where it becomes incredibly challenging.
Picture dinner time, all ur kids need hands on help with their various different activities, dinner needs to be served and also, your baby is hungry but you cant feed him yet because it’s not time yet, or if he was fed, you need to keep him awake for longer etc.
Unless you have an extra pair of hands to help you, it’s really challenging to stay consistent.

amother

↑ Firebrick

Thu, Jan 02 2025, 5:46 pm

LL2 wrote:

You don’t know how much she’s taking during the day but I aimed to have 20-25 minute nursing session.

At night I fed him when he woke but every few days I lessened it by 2 minutes or so.
I found he generally woke around the same times every night. I think I still fed if it wasn’t unless it was really really early or late, then I tried to just shush back to sleep