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@.twist.: Ugh that is my biggest fear with reducing her feedings! Won't she just get hungry earlier?
Now she's decided getting up at 3am and then sleeping til 7:30 is stupid, so has changed her morning wakeup time every day to 6am. PERFECT! SO GLAD!
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@JoJoGirl: R LOVES turkey polish kielbasa. Seriously only protein I get her to eat. Eggs? I would try some shredded cheese (I forget how many teeth she has)
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@Smurfette: Yeah I want to try eggs this weekend, but daycare won't make them for her during the day. She LOVES the chicken at night but it doesn't help her sleep any better, unfortunately.
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@JoJoGirl: R is back to waking up at 530. It sucks.
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@Smurfette: Uuuuugh.
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@JoJoGirl: how are things going with the night wakings? I'm in almost the same place- C is 6 months, I tried gently cutting the first feeding off around 15 minutes and she ends up crying for an hour until I feed her again. And lately has been waking before 6 for the day. Not fun. I think I'm giving up on the shortening thing for now.
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Dude, if she's waking up and wants milk, feed her. You can break the association with nursing and sleep by making sure you dont nurse her to sleep at the beginning of the night. Nurse before bed, but once you make sure shes really full, dont nurse her to sleep.just rock her or hold her instead, even if she cries the first few times. If she still wakes at 3 am after she gets used to that, well maybe she actually needs milk. But 3 am is the worst time to refuse to nurse. And i wouldnt let her cry on her own if i were you, especially at 3 am when her stomach's empty.
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@JoJoGirl: Please explain to me why is it your fault, and why would you even think that..?
We had a nightly wake up between 2-4am for a very long time, and personally, it didn't bother me. To one point I automatically woke up somewhere along that time even if LO didn't wake! Our pediatrician wanted me to night wean LO but I refused to listen to him. I just don't think there is anything wrong and I continuef to breastfeed him at night when he woke up (I tried to night wean him at one point too because of pressure from the husband, he CIOed for an hour and more so I gave up). And at one point, LO night weaned on his own. That was along 8 months when we introduced chicken.
So I'd say, if it were pressure from others, don't listen to them. They are not your child and why are we weaning them just because of social norms...? It is going to happen eventually, and to be honest I wouldn't force wean him until he's 1... but that's just me.
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