How to night wean?

amother

Wed, Oct 30 2024, 4:42 pm

My DD just turned 1 and I want to start cutting down on nighttime feedings. We currently cosleep and nurse to sleep. No plans to sleep train at the moment.

She keeps waking up every night between 10-11 and I usually nurse her back to sleep. I'm pretty sure it's a habit now and she wakes up for food.

My question is, what do I do for that wakeup if I want to cut out that feeding? The few times I've gotten her back to sleep without feeding, she's woken up around an hour later.

I really want to eliminate that feeding, one of the reasons being that it interferes with ahem...activities.

amother

Molasses

Wed, Oct 30 2024, 4:45 pm

Either you could let her go back asleep and then feed her an hour later and then once she gets used to that and only starts waking up an hour later you could push it off a little longer, until it merges with her next feeding.

Or you could sleep train because most babies are happier when they have 12 hours straight of sleep instead of waking up constantly in the middle to be fed and put back to sleep.