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I think that the sleep experts say that by 6 months 1 nightfeed is normal. According to this chart a 6 month old should be able to go a minimum of 7 hours without needing a feed overnight. (I hate using the word 'should' for babies though!)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11GHo4keUb2TVJUlSL1kD6HQcEgaNFBmzoQoOzcpcyas/edit?hl=en&authkey=CPXE1bsO&pli=1#

Oops...I didn't give any tips!

Well, here is what we did. From months 3-4 LO had one nightfeed about 80% of the time. We went on vacation and he needed 2 NFs that whole week but only ate well for the first wake up (between 11-2 after a 5:30-6:30 bedtime) and ate poorly on the 2nd wake up. When we got home we decided to cut out the first nightfeed as he had been doing 8-11 hour stretches before vacation. It took one night of CIO where my DH handled it (LO woke up at 12:30, back to sleep at 2 and woke again after 5am for a feed) and a 2nd night of 20 minutes worth of fussing and we were back to normal. It wasn't easy to let him cry that night but one night of crying was worth it to us to get LO to sleep that really long stretch on his own.