https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 06 May 2026 15:46:59 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-eliminated-the-night-feeding#post-477225 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:40:10 +0000 cvbee 477225@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: as you know, I haven't. But my friend eliminated the night feeding (breastfed baby) at 8 months old using CIO extinction. She said baby cried for 45 minutes. Maybe two nights of this and then baby has STTN ever since then (now 10.5 months old). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-eliminated-the-night-feeding#post-477187 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:26:18 +0000 winniebee 477187@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@skibobrown: Nope, he hasn't been interested in a paci since 2 months : ( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-eliminated-the-night-feeding#post-476660 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:34:04 +0000 skibobrown 476660@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Does he take a pacifier? DD dropped her night feedings easily. She wasn't hungry, but she did need to be comforted, so giving her a pacifier was all that it took, once she was ready. However, then she would wake up in the night and scream for her pacifier instead, so it wasn't a cure-all. Eventually we had to do sleep training (extinction) to get her to put herself back to sleep without crying for her pacifier. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-eliminated-the-night-feeding#post-476563 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:56:47 +0000 winniebee 476563@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think I'm going to start by waiting longer to go in tonight and see how it goes. Sometimes I feel like it's just easier to go feed him since he could cry for longer than the feeding would take. But o know it's not about that! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-eliminated-the-night-feeding#post-475210 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:13:10 +0000 BananaPancakes 475210@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: Well, he's only sttn 4 times, and they were at Christmas, so I think he was exhausted. Other than that, he's taken a full feeding between 1-4 every night for forever. I think I might feel differently if he was only eating a little and falling asleep, or had been sttn. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-eliminated-the-night-feeding#post-475132 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:52:40 +0000 Freckles 475132@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: hahaha, i was hoping for that too! But i really did not want to night wean when she's able to stand in her crib. Better to do it when she's less mobile. :) I was glad i did it, because it only confirmed that she wasn't doing it because she was hungry. She actually changed her behaviour - nurses for a long time before i put her to bed, and nurses for a regular amount of time when she wakes up. Good luck!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-eliminated-the-night-feeding#post-475109 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:44:35 +0000 winniebee 475109@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@caffeinated: I don't know.....I think extinction is going to be what works for my son, but I'm not sure. I was hoping I wouldn't have to do anything! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-eliminated-the-night-feeding#post-475083 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:32:29 +0000 Freckles 475083@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: Did you want to try the extinction method? We did that the first time we tried night weaning (1 month ago). We capped the crying at 1 hour, and luckily she went to sleep before we had to go to her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-eliminated-the-night-feeding#post-475052 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:21:45 +0000 winniebee 475052@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@littlek: For the last week, he has been waking up not once, but TWICE. Boot camp starts soon, I think. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-eliminated-the-night-feeding#post-475050 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:21:10 +0000 winniebee 475050@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks! I think he recently has been making up for lost calories since he wasn't eating as much while sick (and would down a 6 oz bottle). But, last night he woke 2x and only ate 3 oz each time.</p> <p>@BabyBoecksMom: @caffeinated: interesting! I think my LO would get more angry with me if I went in to comfort him (he is bottle fed, so I don't think it would matter if DH went in versus me). IDK though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-eliminated-the-night-feeding#post-475045 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:19:38 +0000 littlek 475045@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have no advice, but I feel your pain. LO was great at STTN and then he got sick and since then he wants night feedings. Agghhh, it's like we are back to step 1. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-eliminated-the-night-feeding#post-475027 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:14:22 +0000 Freckles 475027@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did night weaning at the 8 month mark! I got DH to go into her room when she started crying. We first let her cry for about 30 minutes, and then he went in. She probably cried for about 30 minutes while he held her but then went back to sleep. The next night she cried for about 10 minutes but went to bed on her own. She'll wake up now and then around 5am (groan) but either she will settle back on her own, or DH will go in and after 30 seconds she'll go back to sleep. It's been 2 weeks now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-eliminated-the-night-feeding#post-474965 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:50:15 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 474965@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We used to let her CIO, but now at 11 months, she's more aware of things so I'm doing it gradually. She started waking again at night after she started crawling and hit a growth spurt. Starting last night, I'm going in there to comfort her, but I'm not giving her any bottle. I'll offer her some water in a sippy cup, but no more formula. If she continues to wake, I'll let her CIO, but I wanted to make sure she knows that she really doesn't need the bottle/formula to go to sleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-eliminated-the-night-feeding#post-474875 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:16:10 +0000 Mrs. Bee 474875@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>olive had tons of night feedings. we let her cry it out and she dropped them all pretty easily. you let them cry every time they wake up. olive barely cried so it wasn't too hard. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-eliminated-the-night-feeding#post-474864 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:07:49 +0000 mrs. wagon 474864@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>oh-- with Wagon Jr. he took a paci so we gave him the paci instead of a bottle one night and he fell back asleep... he STTN every night since! unfortunately LMW won't take a paci or suck her fingers :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-eliminated-the-night-feeding#post-474861 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:07:13 +0000 mrs. wagon 474861@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: we're the same way right now-- LMW was sleeping thru the night without a night feeding at all for a couple of weeks, then all of a sudden she'd wake and not go back to sleep, even with rocking, so we started feeding her again (scary!!) but she'd down an entire 6.5 oz before falling back asleep, so we knew she was hungry. Probably a growth spurt? That's been going on for a week or so, and she had two night feedings one night and one night feeding any time between midnight and 4am almost every night. But she did STTN again once in the mix in there too. So we are just kind of shrugging our shoulders... not quite sure what to make of it. Basically at night when she wakes, we wait until she's REALLY crying to go get her because most times she just kinda squawks and squeaks and then falls back asleep on her own. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-eliminated-the-night-feeding#post-474840 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:00:19 +0000 winniebee 474840@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bree72: Sometimes my son chows in the middle of the night, other times he only takes a few ounces and passes out. IDK I just feel like 8 months is too old to be waking for night feedings, but maybe I'm just tired and grumpy. The thing is, I know he can do it because he has done it many many times in the past. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-eliminated-the-night-feeding#post-474826 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:53:07 +0000 BananaPancakes 474826@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ha. I haven't even attempted this yet. He's still going strong waking for one feeding and I don't have the heart to tell him no. He still acts like he's so hungry. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-eliminated-the-night-feeding#post-474756 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:11:09 +0000 winniebee 474756@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>How did you do it? Just let him/her cry when he wakes up at night? For how long?</p> <p>LO is 7.5 months and has gone through phases of going without night feedings. He's been sick off and on for a few months so I have put off any sort of sleep training. But I work 40 hours a week and the night wakings are getting old, fast. So, I think we're going to try to eliminate his night feeding soon.</p> <p>How did you go about it? </p>