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This is not your fault!!! Whatever it takes to keep your sanity I would just do it. Baby sleep is a mystery.

@JoJoGirl: Yea my daughter was as well but I think she really just wanted to nurse and couldn't go super long without getting hungry. Even now she only goes about 12 hours between her bedtime snack and waking up hungry for breakfast (age 2). I'm not saying don't try but I'm saying there could still be a need there. If its an easy wake up and goes right back down I decided it was easier to continue that then deal with training.

I have no idea what to tell you- my 17 month old still nurses 2-3 times a night................. but not your fault! Some kids just don't STTN I don't think.

I am of the opinion (although it may not be what you want to hear) that an EBF baby needs to wake up at night until at least a year. Your baby is getting a lot of solids at 10 months and if you are EBF please realize until 1 year the majority of the nutrition should be coming from your milk. Given that could you scale down on the solids and increase the day time nursing? You may see a change in night time feeding. Also, if baby is waking, eating and going back to sleep I feel that is a sign that they need to be eating. If she were waking up, eating then staying awake and playing I may say the nursing is a crutch. The twins are still waking up 2-3 times a night each to nurse at 18 months. Night weaning may not change the night waking (from what I understand it usually doesn't) and baby could get so stressed they find it hard to fall back to sleep. You are doing great but I get how frustrating the lack of sleep becomes.

My 5.5 month old still wakes up twice at night to nurse, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. She seems legit hungry but I think she also does it for comfort. It's definitely not your fault!!

I think it sounds normal to me. If she seems legitimately hungry she probably is. My LO started to seem to be nursing more for comfort than hunger around 9 months and then started STTN on his own.

I'm right there with you. DD is almost 13 months and still wakes up in the middle of the night to nurse. I stopped nursing and pumping when she turned one so she only gets ONE nursing session in the middle of the night. Honestly, I don't even know if she's getting any milk. But she nurses for 5-7 minutes and goes right back down to sleep. I'll keep doing it for as long as it works. Her crib is our bedroom so there is no way CIO would work for us.

It's not you, or anything you are doing. I know it's so rough when there is no logical explanation, it is just how some kids are.

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@Mae: HA! I love that one of the recommended liquids for that is an energy drink! That could only increase the hamster/gerbil comparison, especially if you throw a wheel in the crib

@JoJoGirl: hmm would she drink more in bottles if you gave it to her? or more frequent slightly smaller bottles/ my thinking being that if she gets all her calories during the day maybe she wn't need to wake out of hunger. but it's also just possible that she can't go 12 hours yet without eating

Hugs!! It is so tough--I do hope it gets better soon! would she take a bottle at night so maybe you and your dh can trade off?

@JoJoGirl: Oh no Of course it's not your fault! Babies are enigmas.

Have you tried reducing the length of the feed by one minute/night, or even one minute every other night?

I have no experience with this as K still eats around 5 am too (but I'm on mat leave, so I can put up with it for now), but I've read that's a good way to go about it.

It will pass....but I know, it must be a huge PITA at the moment

Ugh, I'm sorry. I was getting ready to try to night wean my LO who wakes up 3 x a night (10, 3, 5), thinking "oh, the doctor will be shocked she is up this much..." But he basically said, the longest she can go is 6 to 8 hours. Granted she is still pretty small at 9 months (16 lb 10 oz), but I thought for sure he'd tell me we should try to drop feedings.
Anyway, all that to say it sounds like she is hungry. Which is a bummer, and I'm sorry. I have no advice, because obviously our babies didn't get the memo that they are so big now and need to figure this shit out.

@Mae: MIL bought us this box for one of our gifts for Christmas. So funny!

My LO is 10 months and finally just starting to only wake up to feed once so I am super happy with getting up at 3 am to feed. LOL! It's better than 9,11,1,3,5 and 7. Which is what he thought was cool just a few weeks ago. Our sleep consult said that it was still very normal to feed once a night up until around age 1.

My 9 month old is up 1-3 times a night, ugh. She does seem hungry at 1 of those wakings, so it's possible your LO just isn't ready to drop the wake up yet