if you EBF and didn't CIO how old was your LO when they dropped their night feedings?
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Well we are at 8.5 months, and still have 2 night feedings. Sorry I'm no help!
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I finally did it just around 18mo. No problem!
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Probably 8 mos but we breastfed a ton during the day.
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17 months. We weaned and she STTN at the same time. She was down to just the nighttime munch and didn't need it so we took it away.
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16 months and she did it on her own. If she wakes up (once every 10 days or so now), I still nurse her. Good luck!
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We did sleep train at 6 months but kept 1 night feeding (which changed into 2 sometimes) u til he dropped it at 13 months.
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about 12-14 months.
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Not until we weaned at 13 months and change. He would sttn randomly, and more frequently after 12m. But it wasn't solid until a few weeks after he was totally weaned, so it was almost 14 months before he slept through consistently.
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11 weeks for my first.
8 weeks for my second.
Getting close with #3 at five weeks. Only one night feed at this point.Apparently I birth unicorns.
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around 12 months for both on their own
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14 months when we weaned. He STTN for a little bit at 12 months but it didn't last long.
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He didn't completely drop his night feedings until I weaned him. Before then he woke up around midnight like clockwork
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Almost 12 months and we're still nursing once or twice a night! We've done some sleep training-lite and that's gotten us back down to that, for a while it was BAD. One of the wake-ups is before I go to bed so it's just once in the middle of my night, usually...
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Dd1 dropped all feeds and was STTN by 5 months. Dd2 is 10 weeks and generally has 2 night wakings to feed, but sometimes does just 1.
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Mine self night weaned around 6.5 months.. STTN around 7-8 months.
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DS is 4 months old and nurses 1-2x a night, I don't mind too much since its super quick (around 5 min), whereas comforting him to sleep can take an hour!
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12 months when I cut him off cold turkey. He didn't start STTN till we cut out bottles too though.
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Somewhere between 15 and 18 months, I don't remember exactly. It happened gradually.
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We did use CIO but not for night nursing (just so she could learn to sleep through a sleep cycle instead of waking every 90 minutes).
She slept through at 10 months. The early morning session was the last to go so I didn't count it as sleeping through until she managed to sleep until at least 5:30am or so (i.e. when I could actually start the day and not go back to sleep).
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Occasionally my 8.5mo will sttn, but I still get up to nurse her 1-2x night, generally. I get excited by the sttn-nights, but then she wakes again. She's also really random on when her wake ups are, despite a reasonably routine schedule for dinner/bedtime.
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What do you consider "night feedings"? With both my kids, they nursed around 8-9 p.m. and then again at 5:00 a.m., but nothing in between, by 12 weeks. I didn't consider those night feedings because those feeds didn't interrupt my sleep. We dropped the 9 p.m. feed around 9 months, but didn't drop the 5:00 a.m. one until we weaned (14.5 months for Xander, 12.5 months for Logan).
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LO2 is 11.5 months and slept through the night for the first time last night. I don't necessarily expect this to become a trend, but I got to sleep 7 hours straight for the first time since she was born and it was AMAZING. Normally, she wakes 1-3 times a night and I feed her.
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@oliviaoblivia:
11 weeks both DSs weaned on their own
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10 months?!
She was STTN pretty consistently by then but if shebwaked and fussed a lot I'd offer! -
@oliviaoblivia: Can you PLEASE rub this unicorn business off on my #2
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15 months. He was down to one night feeding (around 3/4AM) for several weeks before.
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Oh, man. The 16-18mo responses are making me cringe. My 9mo old is still up 4-5 times during "his" night, 3 times during "my" night. There have been a few glorious occasions where it was only 2x.
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Around 4.5-5 months. We were also sleep training at that time, but we didn't do CIO for night wake-ups (we only did CIO for initial falling asleep at the beginning of the night). We would go in, replace her pacifier, comfort her, and leave. She would fuss quietly for a minute and go back to sleep.
We've had a reappearance of some night wakings over the last few weeks (~10 months) though, but that's associated with several colds/pinkeye, four new teeth at once, and a big month-long Wonder Week, so I don't think it's permanent. I do nurse her for those wakeups since she clearly needs the comfort.
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@adira I was thinking night feedings as MOTN- when I have to wake up.
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He was 9 months. I encouraged him to drop it but it wasn't a cio situation. I had tried a couple months earlier and he wasn't ready at that point
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We night weaned around 16-18 months? She mostly was STTN anyways at that point.
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@mrsjyw: we've been obscenely lucky.
@FaithFertility: it means birthing eleven pounders. You down? -
Thanks for posting this I have been curious but wasn't sure how to phrase it. We are in the middle of sleep training and I think I'll throw in the towel on the night wakings but call it mission accomplished because she'll fall asleep on her own. But she absolutely will NOT be comforted back to sleep in the MOTN. Baby sleep is hard.
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@lilyofthewest: me too! 10.5 months here and 3 wake ups a night is a good night. 4-5 is more realistic. I don't know if I can handle it for that much longer
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We specifically night weaned at 14 months and she STTN after that at 14.5 mo. We didn't CIO - DH went in for all wake ups and soothed her (or managed the flailing angry boob monster) back to sleep and eventually she caught on to no milk at night and decided it wasn't worth it. We probably could have done it closer to a year but we had a bunch of travel and illnesses that delayed it. I wasn't going to do anything on purpose prior to a year. And sadly weaning is going tooth and nail (almost 17 mo now...) so she was never close to dropping on her own.
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Around 18 months. BUT, there was only one feed at 5 AM from 12 months on and that wasn't so bad.
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