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I am wondering this too. DS has been slowly dropping night feedings, but his darn 3-5am wakeup is going strong. It's wearing on us and I am dreading the idea of him regressing (he's only 4 months old). Our pediatrician gave us the 'ok' to wean him, but I wonder if we should wait for him to drop it on his own?

C is 5 months and still waking 1-2 times a night usually, sometimes more, very rarely she will sleep straight through until 5, nurse, back to sleep. She has never slept 12 hours straight.

Our ped gave the go ahead to try and drop those feedings but I still feel like she's really hungry then, plus there is always something-- traveling, teething, whatever-- that makes me feel like I can't.

But I think she should be able to drop it at 12 months, if you want to. No recs on how to do it though! I am just hoping she will drop it on her own still.

Miss A is almost fifteen months and still having 1-2 night feeds although she can STTN when the stars align and the mood takes her I should also mention that A is a real booby baby and still nursing a million times a day and she probably wakes for comfort rather than hunger (yay-separation anxiety!!)

My baby is 5 months old and was formula fed (and no, this is no different! Whoever told me that she would STTN at 3 months because of formula was wrong!!). I stopped giving her a feed during the night last week. I was so worried about it, I thought she must have needed it, but she just went back to sleep and it all went without any issue.

FWIW, no, I don't think you are considering it early at 12.5 months. If you are happy to keep doing it then that's fine but if you are not then I think it's ok to night wean at that age.

we did it at 6.5 months and again at 9 months (after a regression).

I night weaned around one year. Best. Move. Ever. We both slept so much better after!

@Beyond2: how?! did it take a long time? i'm really thinking it might be time, but i've chickened out every time.

@birdofafeather: we basically used the sleep easy solution for night weaning. I'd take DS from his crib an hour before his normal wakeup times and nurse him, dropping the time by a minute each night. I was so scared to do this (and to cut him off early once we got down to like 2 minutes) but he responded so well to it. Only a couple times did he wakeup on his own during his normal time. The few times he did I left him to self sooth knowing he had a full belly and he'd go back to sleep rather quickly. He was pretty much weaned in a week with no wakeups ( except with teething) after 2 weeks. It was the best thing we could have done at that point. Iwas just so exhausted after a year of interrupted sleep!

I think we stopped night feeding at around 11 months - she had sttn once or twice, so I knew she could make it. First I reduced to once night feeding from two. Then, we spent a few nights where DH would go in instead of me so she wouldn't want to nurse. I continued to nurse her during the day until just recently at almost 17months - with a few "regressions" on the night nursing while traveling.

LO is 17 months and still nursing like it's his job - usually 3-4xs a day and 1-2x at night. He's never STTN (ok, maybe a few times ever) and he doesn't have any other way of self-soothing (never took a paci, bottle, other kinds of milk, etc). I keep hoping that he'll wean himself, but honestly he loves it and I don't see it happening anytime soon. The only reason I'm interested in when he might wean is that it seems to be effecting my cycle for getting pregnant with #2. But honestly, other than the lack of sleep, I love nursing him and I'm dreading him weaning as much as wondering when it will happen.

@birdofafeather: there is hope! I am totally jinxing myself but he STTN last night again!! Of course, he was up at 5:30, but I guess I'll take it and work on later wake up later one...