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Ha. I haven't even attempted this yet. He's still going strong waking for one feeding and I don't have the heart to tell him no. He still acts like he's so hungry.

@winniebee: we're the same way right now-- LMW was sleeping thru the night without a night feeding at all for a couple of weeks, then all of a sudden she'd wake and not go back to sleep, even with rocking, so we started feeding her again (scary!!) but she'd down an entire 6.5 oz before falling back asleep, so we knew she was hungry. Probably a growth spurt? That's been going on for a week or so, and she had two night feedings one night and one night feeding any time between midnight and 4am almost every night. But she did STTN again once in the mix in there too. So we are just kind of shrugging our shoulders... not quite sure what to make of it. Basically at night when she wakes, we wait until she's REALLY crying to go get her because most times she just kinda squawks and squeaks and then falls back asleep on her own.

olive had tons of night feedings. we let her cry it out and she dropped them all pretty easily. you let them cry every time they wake up. olive barely cried so it wasn't too hard.

We did night weaning at the 8 month mark! I got DH to go into her room when she started crying. We first let her cry for about 30 minutes, and then he went in. She probably cried for about 30 minutes while he held her but then went back to sleep. The next night she cried for about 10 minutes but went to bed on her own. She'll wake up now and then around 5am (groan) but either she will settle back on her own, or DH will go in and after 30 seconds she'll go back to sleep. It's been 2 weeks now.

@winniebee: Did you want to try the extinction method? We did that the first time we tried night weaning (1 month ago). We capped the crying at 1 hour, and luckily she went to sleep before we had to go to her.

@winniebee: hahaha, i was hoping for that too! But i really did not want to night wean when she's able to stand in her crib. Better to do it when she's less mobile. I was glad i did it, because it only confirmed that she wasn't doing it because she was hungry. She actually changed her behaviour - nurses for a long time before i put her to bed, and nurses for a regular amount of time when she wakes up. Good luck!!