We still nurse before bedtime and throughout the day but as I begin the weaning process I'm just curious how long I should expect my LO to go without food. We eat around 5:30 and bedtime is at 8 (he's usually falling asleep in his crib at this time ) so he nurses at 7:45 and I have felt good about finally finally night weaning him so that he wouldn't wake at 5 for a feed. But...when I get to te point where I drop the bedtime feed is it reasonable to expect him to go all the way til breakfast the next day? Offer bedtime milk? A healthy dessert? What do you ladies do?
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I am curious about this too. I am going to start the weaning process soon too! DS turns 1 in a month and we will start slowly cutting back on feelings, leaving bedtime and morning as the last ones and I am not sure how long we will leave those. Right now DS goes from 7 pm to about 6:30am between nursings.
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About 45-60 mins at 13 months!
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We eat dinner around 5:30 or 6:00 and DS goes to bed around 8:00. He's 17 months old now but our schedule has been similar for several months. I don't remember how old he was when he dropped to 3 bottles a day (8oz each), but when he did we gave him bottles with his meals. Now, he get's a sippy cup of cow's milk with each meal. We don't give him more than 3 cups of milk a day and we rarely give him a snack after dinner. He does get snacks during the day if he wants or seems hungry between meals.
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LO is 18 months and eats her dinner at 5:00pm. She's in bed by 6pm.
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LO is 15 months and has dinner at 5:00 or 5:30 and bedtime starts at 6:45. She stopped nursing at 14 months... Sometimes after dinner she has a little fruit and before we head up to bed we let her drink her milk from her straw cup. We did this when she was still nursing and she would barely nurse (under a minute)...so we knew she was full and sure enough she weaned soon after...
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@Sweet T: you guys seem the most similar to our schedule-dinner around 5:30-6 and then bed around 8. When does your LO usually get up in the morning?
Thanks for the feedback everyone-I just want to make sure how long he goes without eating is not unreasonable. He's still nursing before bed so maybe extra milk after dinner if he seems a little hungrier or fussy.
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@Kfamilie: We're actually working on getting him on a better schedule right now, but I've been waking him between 8:30 and 9:00 for last week or so.
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LO is 18 months. He eats dinner at 630 and is in bed between 8 and 830.
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