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  • poll: does/did your six-month old have nightfeedings?
    Yes. One feeding : (45 votes)
    26 %
    Yes. two feedings. : (42 votes)
    24 %
    Yes. three or more feedings. : (43 votes)
    25 %
    No. He/she STTN at this point. : (45 votes)
    26 %
  1. Grace

    cantaloupe / 6730 posts

    LO still eats 1-2x a night at 9.5 months. Healthy Sleep Habits Healthy Child says that up to 9 months is normal.

  2. NurseMommy

    pear / 1812 posts

    DD was night weaned at 3 months, then regressed at four, back at four and a half, regressed at seven... You get the picture. Any time she is sick or teething we regress because frankly, I don't have the mental capacity to deal with a screaming child at three am any way other than to stick a boob in her mouth!

  3. californiadreams

    pomegranate / 3411 posts

    I wonder where the "ok up to 9 months" comes from that a couple of posters have mentioned? It seems as arbitrary as saying they should be night weaned by 6 months. As this thread shows, every baby is different and there is a wide variation!

  4. Pirouette

    pomegranate / 3331 posts

    My lo is 6 months and she was sttn at 2 months (9-12 hours) and now we have 1-2 wakeups because she wakes herself up crawling in the middle of the night. I think her sleep now is more normal than it was previously! She works really hard in the middle of the night and wakes up when she slams herself into the side of the crib or gets a limb stuck. And I always nurse her back to sleep because I figure she's burning lots of calories. Also, my lo is small so I would never let her go hungry! She's also ebf

  5. mdf106

    clementine / 828 posts

    My EBF LO STTN some of the time at 7 weeks and almost all the time at 4 months. He does not sleep as long at night as many babies, though, probably 8 hours at 3 months, 9 hours at 6 months, and 9-10 hours now at 10 months.

  6. jetsa

    grapefruit / 4663 posts

    We had a nurse tell us this at our last appt she said my daughter cried 90 minutes but it was so worth it after that. I asked my dr who bf both her daughters to 18 months and she said what's the absolute longest he's ever slept, I'd put him to bed and feed him the first time he woke after that amount of time.
    Although I have 2 friends who's EBF babies slept through the night at 8 weeks. Each kid is different.

  7. kjpugs

    grapefruit / 4862 posts

    6 months she had 1-2 wakeups but generally two, I think, so I voted that. Following turning 6 months she moved to 1 and then STTN, then got sick and is back to 1, with the occasional 2 or STTN. She's 8 months now.

  8. jetsa

    grapefruit / 4663 posts

    @Zbug: ha yes, uh what xyz for breast-feeding...Kellymom I'm obsessed.

  9. lawbee11

    GOLD / watermelon / 14076 posts

    @Zbug: @jetsa: Same! Kellymom is my BFF. I follow them on Facebook and love the stuff they post.

  10. Meltini

    apricot / 495 posts

    When D was that age he would wake up 1-2 times a night to eat. Once we moved him to his own room he dropped down to 1 and now he sleeps thru the night at 8.5 months. Babies will drop night feeds when they are ready. That nurse was wrong.

  11. Zbug

    persimmon / 1355 posts

    @lawbee11: @jetsa: haha exactly. My parenting strategy is basically if kellymom says it's fine, I roll with it.

  12. Tidybee

    nectarine / 2834 posts

    A ped in the practice we went to saw DD for her 6 month visit and he said I should drop the 4am feed. DD was starving by then and there's no way I was going to give it up. When he heard that she was going 7pm-4am without a feed, he relaxed a bit as said she probably still needed it.

  13. MoonMoon

    pomegranate / 3393 posts

    @Zbug: @lawbee11: @jetsa: yes to Kellymom and similar breastfeeding resources!

  14. tysonja

    nectarine / 2217 posts

    LO1 consistently sttn 12hrs at 3 months, and LO2 consistently sttn 11hrs at 6 months.
    they are all different!

  15. lamariniere

    pineapple / 12566 posts

    @Rainbow Sprinkles: my DD is just a week younger than yours and we are definitely getting up at least 3 times to nurse every night. With my DS it was the same, but he was more like 4 times per night at this age!

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