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olive is almost 6 months and i'm thinking that i have to cut it out in the next month. but it will be so hard!!!!

@chopsuey119: If our doctor actually knew how we were raising our son, they would probably drop us. He is 3 weeks away from 12 months old. He still nurses two times a night in bed with me. Typically he starts in his crib and ends in his crib but what happens between is a crapshoot. When he was first born and crying for 12 hours straight and the only ways we or he could sleep was on our chest, our pediatrician was like "you aren't asleep when you do that". I was like "um right" but we so where. It is what we had to do for our family at the time or no one would ever get any sleep. Granted this is the same doctor that still won't admit he has food intolerance, has a weight problem (dropped from 50th - 0.5 percentile) or had a yeast infection for 7 weeks. We don't see her anymore.

We also didn't do purees with our little man. He was fed solids since he was 5 months old. He now eats more food than most 3 year olds and loves meat. Our pediatrician wanted us to give him iron supplements and I never got around to it. Well, they did a full panel on him and he had no iron issues. So I just take the doctor's advice with a grain of salt. Take what works and leave the rest.

Do you think there is a problem? Up until recently (8 weeks ago) we felt there were problems with his food absorption so he nursed all night just to get food. Now he nurses at night because he refuses any breastmilk or formula during the day. So he gets all his ounces at night.

We are looking at dropping one of the night feeds at this point because we think he can handle it. He is taking some ounces during the day (approximately 5 on most days) and he is absorbing the foods that he does get. He can soothe himself and cry for less than 10 minutes to get to sleep. So we are going to start with 10 minutes of CIO for the middle of the night.

For example, here is our approximate schedule.
sometime between 2 and 4 am: Middle of the night feeding
7:00 am: Desired wake time and nursing
10:00 am: Nap 1
11:30 am: Lunch (4-5 nuggets, 4-5 apples slices, some puffs) offered up to 5 oz of milk
1:00 pm: Nursing (I get a lunch break here)
2:30 pm: Nap 2
4:00 pm: Snack (puffs and the rest of the milk he didn't drink)
5:00 pm: Pickup and nursing
6:00 pm: Dinner (whatever we are eating. yesterday was turkey burger and squash) and water
8:00 pm: Bedtime
10:00 pm: He typically wakes and nurses (Most evenings I am working so this is when I get home and he can nurse)

@chopsuey119: You need a new pediatrician! That whole "i've said my peace" thing is BS. She should listen to your needs and help you facilitate those things. I understand doctors are against co-sleeping because of medical issues that have been brought up about it. That is fine (that is fairly common knowledge) but really, at 1 year old the issue with SIDS is mostly over. That just makes me angry for you. Do you have a la leche league? They may know of pediatricians that are more open and understanding of nursing.

I'd tell that pediatrician to take a hike (actually I'd just nod and ignore like I do with mine but still). If your baby is healthy I see no reason to change what you're doing as long as it's also working ok for you. My son started sttn at 7 months, regressed a bit a 9, and then got back to 11ish hours overnight at 10 months. He's 12 months now and rarely wakes in the middle of the night but if he does I nurse him.

@brownie: @ohapostrophe: hahaha... I'm so with you guys... if my girls' peds knew half of the stuff I do at home with them, they would for sure give me huge lectures and make me feel like the worst parent/person ever. I do the nod and ignore thing too I know where they are coming from, and it's their job to preach what they've learned in medical school.... i even also come from a healthcare background and I do totally get it, but as a mom I also know there are other ways of raising your kids that's still safe and healthy.

@chopsuey119: good for you... do what you feel is best for you and your LO. My LO is like yours where she hates bottles and doesn't eat solids much.... So she's a total mommy's baby. she's a little younger than yours though... 9 months next week, but I do feed and comfort nurse her throughout the night and I don't plan on cold turkey stopping after she turns a certain age. I'll just stop when I feel it's right for us. It might be at 12 months (I doubt it), or 18 months, maybe even 24 months... I don't know, but if I'm not driving myself crazy doing it, I will continue... honestly, in the grand scheme of things, our babies grow up SO fast... These days of agonizing over sleep will be over before you know it. I really don't see anything wrong with comforting them how a mom feels is best at any age.

As for the rotting teeth thing... This worried me too recently since LO got her first teeth this past month, but I came across this article and it helped me put things into perspective.

http://kellymom.com/ages/older-infant/tooth-decay/

I am feeding Baby Y twice a night most nights ... He's nine months. Sigh. But he also nurses four times a day and eats solids 3 times a day. Is he just a bottomless pit? He does sleep in his own crib and the feedings are brief ... I guess I just keep hoping he'll start sleeping through on his own

I'm so glad I found this thread! It seems it varies A LOT and depends on the child.

I know I have no room for an opinion here, but my baby is 5 weeks old and will sometimes sleep from 10:30 to 5/6 am without a feeding. If he wakes up earlier, I feed him.

I say, if they will fall back asleep without a feeding, that's great! But if they won't, I don't see the harm.