https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:50:35 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-wean-from-middle-of-the-night-feedings#post-431614 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:41:27 +0000 winniebee 431614@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We bottle feed, but haven't done CIO yet. He has started STTN more frequently so I'm just hoping he drops it on his own. I'll do CIO by 9 months if needed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-wean-from-middle-of-the-night-feedings#post-431591 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:27:34 +0000 Lozza 431591@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think we did it around 9 months... we started by having DH go in there instead of me, so that breastfeeding just wasn't an option. (And we did it gradually... first we'd make him go 4 hours, then 5, then 6, etc. without offering a boob).<br /> Sometimes LO would fuss, sometimes he wouldn't, and DH would do his best to get LO back to sleep but we'd let him fuss for a while too if he didn't seem TOO distraught. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-wean-from-middle-of-the-night-feedings#post-431548 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:04:46 +0000 London Mama 431548@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ah, I see. DS is 5 months this week and wakes up a lot so I'm very interested in different solutions! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-wean-from-middle-of-the-night-feedings#post-431533 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:56:34 +0000 keiki_mama 431533@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@London Mama: He woke up for his usual feeding but instead of giving him a bottle we offered him a pacifier and he went down on his own. Subsequently we started doing that when he woke up in the middle of the night and he didn't resist it. He didn't sleep through the night until we sleep trained at 6.5 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-wean-from-middle-of-the-night-feedings#post-431516 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:47:28 +0000 London Mama 431516@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@keiki_mama: how did you do that? Did you have to CIO? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-wean-from-middle-of-the-night-feedings#post-431442 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:07:39 +0000 keiki_mama 431442@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We dropped the middle of the night feeding around 5.5 months </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-wean-from-middle-of-the-night-feedings#post-416414 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:23:26 +0000 Weagle 416414@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO did the same as @autumnlove: until around 5 months. Since then we get 1-2 nights a week where she doesn't wake, but most nights she wakes once. Our rule is that if she wakes less than 8 hours after going down (which is rare) she doesn't get to eat, but after 8 hours I will nurse her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-wean-from-middle-of-the-night-feedings#post-416378 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:10:54 +0000 mediagirl 416378@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She still gets up twice a night at 5.5 months. I am guessing she will self-wean at some point but we're not going to push it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-wean-from-middle-of-the-night-feedings#post-416302 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 07:54:35 +0000 T.H.O.U. 416302@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Around 13 months we started trying to cut out the night feedings by either letting her cry or just go in but not pick her up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-wean-from-middle-of-the-night-feedings#post-416297 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 07:48:47 +0000 Rubies 416297@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We sleep-trained via CIO when LO was 3.5 months old but not to get her to sleep through the night. We sleep-trained to get her to put herself to sleep and to get her to sleep longer stretches (versus being rocked to sleep for only an hour at a time). From 6-8 months of age, she was still getting 2 night feeds and from 8-10 months, she naturally dropped one feed. Then from 10 months, she started sleeping through the night on her own. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-wean-from-middle-of-the-night-feedings#post-416290 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 07:40:21 +0000 heffalump 416290@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsaudi: I know. I know I'm in for it next time around because this LO spoiled me and there's no way it'll happen twice. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-wean-from-middle-of-the-night-feedings#post-416082 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:14:58 +0000 Springtime 416082@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@artbee: wow, that is amazing! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-wean-from-middle-of-the-night-feedings#post-416080 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:14:37 +0000 Springtime 416080@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tysonja: ugh so jealous! haven't had uninterrupted sleep since before I was pregnant! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-wean-from-middle-of-the-night-feedings#post-416041 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:51:04 +0000 tysonja 416041@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>around 3.5 mnths? he dropped it on his own -- but might have been early b/c he is mostly formula fed :) hope it goes well for you! uninterrupted sleep is the beesssttt :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-wean-from-middle-of-the-night-feedings#post-416034 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:44:12 +0000 heffalump 416034@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Lo started sleeping 12 hours at 2 1/2 months, no sleep training. That's when she found her thumb..... that's all it took. We got lucky! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-wean-from-middle-of-the-night-feedings#post-416029 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:42:30 +0000 skibobrown 416029@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD stopped night feeding around 3.5 months. At 4 months we dropped her dream feed at 11 PM too. She still wakes up in the night for her paci, but not to eat... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-wean-from-middle-of-the-night-feedings#post-416025 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:40:51 +0000 autumnlove 416025@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bao: I know...I definitely don't think I'll get lucky with our next baby. I'm reading sleep books now! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-wean-from-middle-of-the-night-feedings#post-416012 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:35:46 +0000 glimmersnaps 416012@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS is 21 months and we are in the process. It's his only nursing left. We co-sleep and don't CIO so if he won't go back to sleep on his own, either DH or I will get up with him and go eat a snack and read books until he goes back to sleep. This usually happens around 5 or 7 AM so it's not terrible. So far, he is doing it only some nights, most he goes back to sleep on his own. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-wean-from-middle-of-the-night-feedings#post-416011 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:35:07 +0000 Baby Boy Mom 416011@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We sleep trained just before 6 months, and were down to one or max two feedings at night (no night feedings until he had slept 6 hours). At 10 months he stopped waking up completely on his own. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-wean-from-middle-of-the-night-feedings#post-416007 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:31:10 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 416007@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did it about that time and CIO was involved. The problem was, DD was that DD was only nursing for comfort in the middle of the night. She would wake 2-4x a night at that age, so I started letting her CIO the first time she woke up. I would feed her the next time (if it was a few hours later). Eventually she started going longer and longer without waking, unless she was sick, and she hardly wakes now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-wean-from-middle-of-the-night-feedings#post-416005 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:30:22 +0000 Bao 416005@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@autumnlove: Your so lucky! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-wean-from-middle-of-the-night-feedings#post-416002 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:28:35 +0000 autumnlove 416002@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I got really lucky and LO weaned herself from night feedings and started sleeping through the night at 8 weeks. I still woke up twice a night to pump! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-wean-from-middle-of-the-night-feedings#post-415997 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:25:31 +0000 Springtime 415997@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO is 7 months and still gets a middle of the night feed, I would like to start sleep training but I feel like weaning will be the hardest part. When did you wean from middle of the night feedings, was CIO involved? </p>