https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:01:06 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/night-nursing-1#post-1030603 Tue, 20 Aug 2013 07:14:49 +0000 immabeetoo 1030603@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@coastmama: I just updated my thread I know you ha posted on- we had a period of two night feeds for a few weeks around 7.5 months. It wa after we introduced a second solids meal. Like you, he would eat eagerly and then go back to sleep on his own. Every few days I'd try putting him back down after rocking and not eating if he cried again I'd feed him. One night he went back down without eating, we had one wake for a week , and then this past week (8.5 months) he stopped waking at all or the first time ever. So, I'm glad I went with my gut and just gently tried to see if it was habit vs need. I totally get that it's hard to tr and delay instead of nursing immediately so you can get back to bed! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/night-nursing-1#post-1030586 Tue, 20 Aug 2013 06:59:44 +0000 Maysprout 1030586@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@coastmama: It wasn't at first. Around 14 months it became that way so I just had to turn away from her at night most of the time otherwise she'd keep waking me up. So it did get annoying but not till later. Then she'd have spurts of going most of the night without waking and then spurts where she'd want to nurse 10x. I think freckles might have the right idea with delaying night feeds to try to cut it back to 1x a night for now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/night-nursing-1#post-1030454 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 23:58:48 +0000 coastmama 1030454@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Freckles: He feeds 4 times during the day, with 3 meals of solids. I tried around 6 months to feed him more often with no results. It got to where he would reject the breast if I tried to feed him more often, so that's when I cut down feeding him until he was actually hungry (about every 4 hours). Right now I'm feeding him at 7, 11, 3, 7, 11, 3 around the clock..... so I guess that's a sure sign of a habit. It's like clockwork that he wakes up at 11p, and 3am. I might try adding a feed again during the day, and try delaying his 11pm night feeding. Honestly, last month I was getting up like 10 times a night, so 2 isn't so bad..... but I'm SO incredibly sleep deprived and it's really been affecting me. I just feel like he should be able to go longer at night.</p> <p>@Maysprout: LO nursed more when we started solids too. It was so weird. I think he was having a growth spurt at the same time or something. I've tried letting him cry a little at night before I feed him, but in a drowsy state I just want him fed and back to sleep as quickly as possible so I can get back to sleep. Did your LO stop night nursing when you started co-sleeping? I have a strict no co-sleeping policy because I am such a light sleeper(I really would never get any sleep) so that wouldn't work for us, but I have a friend that had to co-sleep unexpectedly on a trip with her 16 month old and she said it was like an all night buffet! He nursed almost all night! I was wondering if it was like that for all babies, or just hers. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/night-nursing-1#post-1030443 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 23:33:56 +0000 Maysprout 1030443@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When LO was around 7 months old she started waking more than she had previously. I always said she was that opposite baby where more solids meant she woke up more, but I don't think that was it. She was getting to be a lot more mobile and 7 months old was the height of her separation anxiety. She was legit hungry at night and would nurse vigorously and then go back to sleep fine as long as she ate. I tried to encourage more day time feeds both with solids and nursing but it didn't work. We tried letting her cry at night but it was miserable and just made her super clingy for the next week. She had slept next to our bed till that point and then she became a little bed invader, it was just the easiest thing and it was kinda nice co-sleeping, though night nursing was a hard habit to break. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/night-nursing-1#post-1030442 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 23:31:57 +0000 Freckles 1030442@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At 7 months, he should be ready to drop a feeding. How often does he feed during the day? Does he get solids? I recall getting 6 feeds during the day and 1 feed at around 5-6am. I dropped the night feed around 9 months.</p> <p>He could be nursing out of habit. Could you try delaying getting him? If you regularly nurse him at 2am, maybe wait until 2:15 the next night, and then 2:30 the following night. Or you can shorten th nursing sessions. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/night-nursing-1#post-1030432 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 23:12:27 +0000 coastmama 1030432@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So LO is 7 months old and still nursing 2xs at night. I would love to drop at least one of those feeds, but have no idea if I should, or how to go about doing it. I am mainly confused because when he wakes up to nurse, he doesn't nurse back to sleep. He is always awake when I set him back in his crib and then falls asleep on his on, like he does to begin the night. I figure if he was nursing for comfort, he would go back to sleep while nursing right? So is he still hungry at night, even at 7 months old? I guess that's why I haven't tried night weaning yet. </p> <p>Anyone else had this experience? Any thoughts or suggestions? </p>