https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:32:34 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gradual-weaning-contributing-to-unhappy-baby#post-2558737 Sat, 28 May 2016 18:44:12 +0000 Ms maths 2558737@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Maddyz, I thought it was teeth for a long time: her bicuspids all came in at once, but then they broke through and no change. (Of course, more could still be on the way.)</p> <p>I decided that there were enough reasons (not just her demeanor) to just try it. We skipped night-time nursing tonight: she asked for milk and cried briefly, then she happily read a book with my husband and fell asleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gradual-weaning-contributing-to-unhappy-baby#post-2558697 Sat, 28 May 2016 15:35:58 +0000 maddyz 2558697@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For what it's worth weve has a month or so of early fussy wakings with our fully weened 15 month old. It might just be part of being 15 months.... lo also cut a tooth in there and I am sure that was adding to it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gradual-weaning-contributing-to-unhappy-baby#post-2558637 Sat, 28 May 2016 12:11:15 +0000 Ms maths 2558637@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Iced Tea, good luck! We can't do much to calm her when she wakes early either, so we generally just leave her in her crib. She cries off and on there, but it would be full-on crying if we got her but I didn't nurse her. But it's still exhausting listening to the cries :(</p> <p>@Youboots, I think you are right and there's probably at least some part of it that is just her age/temperment/size/etc. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gradual-weaning-contributing-to-unhappy-baby#post-2558594 Sat, 28 May 2016 09:44:49 +0000 youboots 2558594@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>T weaned/ I stopped offering at 12.5 months. She STTN most nights, dropping to one nap helped. Sometimes she will wake before 7 and I'll give a bottle of WCM and she goes back down. Her sleep has improved but I think it's age/size too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gradual-weaning-contributing-to-unhappy-baby#post-2558586 Sat, 28 May 2016 08:57:27 +0000 Iced Tea 2558586@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have no answers, but I'm on this journey myself with my 15 month old. </p> <p>We very much want to try for a second child, but my cycle hasn't returned (we still nurse a lot). We started trying to night wean a month ago, but teething wrecked it. Now her sleep is worse than ever, waking every hour or so to nurse. </p> <p>I'm going on a trip alone next week, so there is some urgency to finding another comfort source for her. She has a lovey, but she won't take a pacifier anymore. Last night I set a "milk is asleep" rule from 2:30-sunup. She remained in our room, as usual, but she wailed off and on for two and a half hours. I did find that massaging her feet helped calm her, but most other things made her mad. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gradual-weaning-contributing-to-unhappy-baby#post-2558538 Sat, 28 May 2016 06:16:06 +0000 Ms maths 2558538@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I’ve been scaling back nursing with my 15-month old for several months: about a month ago, I moved to just nursing morning and evening. And it seems to coincide with a pretty unhappy baby :(</p> <p>Of course, there are many things that could make a baby unhappy, but we can’t come up with another physical explanation and the following things are making me think it’s the weaning/nursing:<br /> -she often wakes as early as 4:30AM and does not fall back asleep without nursing, despite seeming tired. (We generally leave her in her crib—and I do not nurse her—until 5:15-5:30, but she will just wimper in her crib the whole time. This has been happening for 1 month.) The tiredness definitely makes her more unhappy over the course of the day, but we can’t get her to nap more when she wakes early.<br /> -she is most unhappy when I am around. She is clingy and wimper-y throughout the day when I am with her. (Of course, could just be some kind of separation anxiety.)<br /> -After nursing, she is at her most content.</p> <p>Although we both enjoy the actual nursing, I’m wondering whether weaning completely might make her (and the rest of the family) happier. Has anyone had a similar experience? What was the outcome? (Did you wean completely? Just keep going? Find some other source of unhappiness/discomfort? How/when did your child’s demeanor change?) </p>