https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:19:46 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/3#post-1712642 Fri, 20 Jun 2014 13:26:10 +0000 lamariniere 1712642@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: my DD is just a week younger than yours and we are definitely getting up at least 3 times to nurse every night. With my DS it was the same, but he was more like 4 times per night at this age! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/3#post-1712626 Fri, 20 Jun 2014 13:19:58 +0000 tysonja 1712626@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO1 consistently sttn 12hrs at 3 months, and LO2 consistently sttn 11hrs at 6 months.<br /> they are all different! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/3#post-1712607 Fri, 20 Jun 2014 13:14:50 +0000 MoonMoon 1712607@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Zbug: @lawbee11: @jetsa: yes to Kellymom and similar breastfeeding resources! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/3#post-1712598 Fri, 20 Jun 2014 13:12:32 +0000 Tidybee 1712598@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A ped in the practice we went to saw DD for her 6 month visit and he said I should drop the 4am feed. DD was starving by then and there's no way I was going to give it up. When he heard that she was going 7pm-4am without a feed, he relaxed a bit as said she probably still needed it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/3#post-1712556 Fri, 20 Jun 2014 12:58:44 +0000 Zbug 1712556@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lawbee11: @jetsa: haha exactly. My parenting strategy is basically if kellymom says it's fine, I roll with it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/3#post-1712537 Fri, 20 Jun 2014 12:51:04 +0000 Meltini 1712537@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When D was that age he would wake up 1-2 times a night to eat. Once we moved him to his own room he dropped down to 1 and now he sleeps thru the night at 8.5 months. Babies will drop night feeds when they are ready. That nurse was wrong. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/3#post-1712536 Fri, 20 Jun 2014 12:50:55 +0000 lawbee11 1712536@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Zbug: @jetsa: Same! Kellymom is my BFF. I follow them on Facebook and love the stuff they post. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/3#post-1712534 Fri, 20 Jun 2014 12:49:01 +0000 jetsa 1712534@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Zbug: ha yes, uh what xyz for breast-feeding...Kellymom :) I'm obsessed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/3#post-1712524 Fri, 20 Jun 2014 12:43:22 +0000 kjpugs 1712524@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>6 months she had 1-2 wakeups but generally two, I think, so I voted that. Following turning 6 months she moved to 1 and then STTN, then got sick and is back to 1, with the occasional 2 or STTN. She's 8 months now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/3#post-1712515 Fri, 20 Jun 2014 12:39:17 +0000 jetsa 1712515@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We had a nurse tell us this at our last appt she said my daughter cried 90 minutes but it was so worth it after that. I asked my dr who bf both her daughters to 18 months and she said what's the absolute longest he's ever slept, I'd put him to bed and feed him the first time he woke after that amount of time.<br /> Although I have 2 friends who's EBF babies slept through the night at 8 weeks. Each kid is different. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/3#post-1712499 Fri, 20 Jun 2014 12:34:58 +0000 mdf106 1712499@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My EBF LO STTN some of the time at 7 weeks and almost all the time at 4 months. He does not sleep as long at night as many babies, though, probably 8 hours at 3 months, 9 hours at 6 months, and 9-10 hours now at 10 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/3#post-1712095 Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:02:13 +0000 Pirouette 1712095@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My lo is 6 months and she was sttn at 2 months (9-12 hours) and now we have 1-2 wakeups because she wakes herself up crawling in the middle of the night. I think her sleep now is more normal than it was previously! She works really hard in the middle of the night and wakes up when she slams herself into the side of the crib or gets a limb stuck. And I always nurse her back to sleep because I figure she's burning lots of calories. Also, my lo is small so I would never let her go hungry! She's also ebf </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/3#post-1712056 Fri, 20 Jun 2014 09:48:44 +0000 californiadreams 1712056@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wonder where the "ok up to 9 months" comes from that a couple of posters have mentioned? It seems as arbitrary as saying they should be night weaned by 6 months. As this thread shows, every baby is different and there is a wide variation! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/3#post-1712003 Fri, 20 Jun 2014 09:28:38 +0000 NurseMommy 1712003@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD was night weaned at 3 months, then regressed at four, back at four and a half, regressed at seven... You get the picture. Any time she is sick or teething we regress because frankly, I don't have the mental capacity to deal with a screaming child at three am any way other than to stick a boob in her mouth! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/3#post-1711938 Fri, 20 Jun 2014 09:05:24 +0000 Grace 1711938@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO still eats 1-2x a night at 9.5 months. Healthy Sleep Habits Healthy Child says that up to 9 months is normal. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/2#post-1711808 Fri, 20 Jun 2014 08:07:19 +0000 Adira 1711808@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lawbee11: @birdofafeather: In that case, I think it's probably pretty normal to eat a couple times overnight at that age! Everyone I know was AMAZED that Xander was sleeping the 7+ hours at that age, so I was assuming eating even MORE than that is normal! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/2#post-1711802 Fri, 20 Jun 2014 08:05:10 +0000 walnutems 1711802@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DS just turned 6 months this week and he dropped his motn feeding 2 weeks ago. He was probably ready before then but I kept doing it because I heard that supply drops drastically after dropping the motn the night and that was right! We've already had to start supplementing! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/2#post-1711768 Fri, 20 Jun 2014 07:47:45 +0000 Bubbles 1711768@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow I feel a lot better about my LOs night feeding after reading all these! He's 6 months exactly and he feeds 3 times most nights, 2 times on a good night. This is a vast improvement on a few weeks ago though when it was more like 5 - 7 times! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/2#post-1711713 Fri, 20 Jun 2014 07:00:56 +0000 JoJoGirl 1711713@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO had 2 overnight feeds until around 4 months and then dropped to one - she kept that one until she started STTN at around 10 months old. We sleep trained when she was 6 months but that didn't stop her from getting up to eat once/night for another 4 months :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/2#post-1711650 Fri, 20 Jun 2014 05:12:19 +0000 illumina 1711650@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>S didn't wake for night feeds from 8 weeks onwards. She was EBF but our equivalent of the ped told us that EBF babies shouldn't be STTN without feeds until they are a year old. </p> <p>Given that, it always surprises me that in the US some peds recommend that babies don't need to eat during the night after 6 months. My friend's LO was still waking 1-2x per night at 6 months and they decided to let her CIO for all night wakings and I just thought to myself "how are you completely sure she isn't hungry?" FWIW I would have continued to feed until a year or so if she woke during the night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/2#post-1711644 Fri, 20 Jun 2014 04:50:59 +0000 Charm54 1711644@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She STTN very young, but I EPed and supplemented so she was bottle fed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/2#post-1711642 Fri, 20 Jun 2014 04:46:13 +0000 Kemma 1711642@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If I recall, Alexis was waking for a feed anywhere between 3am and 5am at six months of age and still wakes for a night feed at twenty months old.</p> <p>As far as I'm concerned there is a whole lot of developmental stuff that goes on between six and twelve months (crawling, teeth, babbling etc) and it seems only natural for a LO to need to the calories of a night feed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/2#post-1711637 Fri, 20 Jun 2014 04:21:02 +0000 anonysquire 1711637@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not sure how she did it but she STTN. I literally didn't teach her this skill. She puts herself to bed and wakes up in the morning when she's hungry. But it really is totally normal to wake up several times still! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/2#post-1711388 Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:26:39 +0000 Mrs. J 1711388@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We were totally STTN until maybe two weeks ago, and now we have at least one overnight feeding. J is 7 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/2#post-1711363 Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:14:45 +0000 blackbird 1711363@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ha this thread makes me feel like E was an anomaly and our next one may not be STTN at 6 months! :( bottle fed formula before bed though </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/2#post-1711345 Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:07:43 +0000 PurplePeony 1711345@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: we just had my LO's 6-month appointment last week and one of the questions on the questionnaire we had to fill out was whether she STTN. I wasn't sure whether they meant the technical definition of 5+ hours or whether they just meant goes to bed in the evening, doesn't get up until morning. Either way, LO usually wakes once, occasionally twice to eat. The nurse didn't say anything about it, and the pediatrician just said that a lot of babies start sleeping longer at night as they eat more solids. That was the extent of the convo about it, so she didn't seem too taken aback or concerned about the night feeding! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/2#post-1711280 Thu, 19 Jun 2014 20:49:46 +0000 kml636 1711280@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I always heard one feeding a night up until 9 months is totally appropriate! My LO dropped hers around 7 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/2#post-1711152 Thu, 19 Jun 2014 20:10:09 +0000 JerricaBenton 1711152@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ShootingStar: LOL! A little scary, right?? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/2#post-1711146 Thu, 19 Jun 2014 20:08:49 +0000 birdofafeather 1711146@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Adira: @lawbee11: i would too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/most-babies-her-age-dont-nurse-overnight/page/2#post-1711108 Thu, 19 Jun 2014 20:00:43 +0000 rachiecakes 1711108@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>J still nursed a few times through the night until 9 months. He actually started nursing a LOT more at night right before he dropped off, like 3+ times a night from 8 months and then just stopped when he hit 9 months. I felt like I'd never sleep and then I kinda missed it! </p>