At what age did you stop feeding on demand?
How did this change impact your child's sleep schedule?
Does your child's feeding schedule drive his/her sleep schedule?
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It was closer to 11 months with DS. I knew I was going to wean by 13 months, so I started dropping feeds here and there. It didn't really impact his sleep because he was a crappy sleeper in any case. We did nurse a lot to sleep though. Two weeks before we were completely weaned, he finally started STRN.
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I'm still feeding on demand at 8.5 months. This thread may give you some idea as well: http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-stop-feeding-on-demand
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The twins are 23 months - they demand and I give in when we are home. When out I can sometimes re-direct them to other activities, sometimes I can't. Between 21.5 months and last week they both started to sleep through the night. I firmly believe that sleep is developmental and they will do it when they are ready. They both slowly weaned themselves throughout the night. It was one feeding at a time.
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We still essentially feed on demand at one year, when I'm not at work. I did push her night feed to later (post 1 am ideally) with a little sleep training. I always thought we'd end up on a feeding schedule but we just never got there.
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We are at almost 14 months and on demand unless I don't feel like it and I say no. I think I'm going to night wean soon though.
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Still feeding on demand at almost twenty months but LO routined herself onto a loose schedule at six or so months.
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@jetsa: Ooops! Thanks, sorry I missed that! I am still interested in the relationship (or lack thereof) with sleep though.
Thanks to everyone who has replied so far.
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@ElbieKay: no problem. I figured it'd give you some immediate answers
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I never really stopped until we weaned at 15 months. I just let him have it whenever he wanted.
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LO is almost 9 months and we still feed (formula) on demand.
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At 11 months when we sleep trained.
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I would say they nursed on demand until they weaned - which was 20 and 15 months for DS and DD.
Both started STTN around 12 months.
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Until he weaned at 15 months. He had fairly predicable night wakings for feedings, and slowly started dropping them on his own.
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Both LOs put themselves on schedules fairly early on. It wasn't so much that I stopped feeding on demand, it was just that they fell into very predictable patterns around 3 months for DD1 and 2 months for DD2. If they're hungry or upset outside of their normal feeding times, I will certainly feed them, but for the most part, they follow(ed) a predictable pattern of feeding every X hours.
DD1 slept 12 hours through the night around 2.5 months, and DD2 started sleeping 11 hours through the night around 8-9 weeks.
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I fed on demand until I night weaned him at 16 months, but I still nursed on demand until he fully weaned during my pregnancy at 21 months.
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I weaned of one of his night time feeds at 8 or 9 months. That was hellish for 2 weeks or so though... Other than that he was fed on demand but he put himself on a schedule and stuck to it pretty consistently.
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