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When did your LO stop needing a night feeding?

  1. LemonLong

    pear / 1698 posts

    Between six-eight weeks. We were pretty strict about our feeding schedule though, so I knew she was getting enough during the day. She's a year old now and we haven't had any regressions. Hopefully it stays that way!

  2. Boheme

    papaya / 10473 posts

    I wish. DS is almost 5 months and still eats 3-4 times a night, and wakes about 6-8 times a night. Yay! lol

  3. Kimberlybee

    grapefruit / 4997 posts

    @Rainbow Sprinkles: LOL!! I think I will be the same way. Baby girl cries at 12am and 4am to feed still, she is 5.5 months. She takes the bottles so fast during these times that I would rather give in.

  4. hilsy85

    squash / 13764 posts

    @grizz: o h no! I thought things were better?

  5. Mrs. Lion

    blogger / grapefruit / 4836 posts

    It is so amazing to me the dramatic difference between babies....those of you who had babies sleeping all night early on (before 4months especially) do you have a strict schedule? Late bedtime? Dream feed? Whats your secret? Or was it just luck? Ll has been "sleeping through the night" meaning a stretch of 8-9 hours, sonce about 10 weeks. But this one feeding is just hanging on, and since dream feeds dont work we seem stuck. Tell me about your success! And mommas who havent been as lucky...tell me how you cope!

  6. Boheme

    papaya / 10473 posts

    @hilsy85: He gave me one blissful week. Saturday night and last night we saw every hour on the clock. He's never been fussy during the day, but now he has been a BEAST since Saturday. I think he's teething...? Or he's possessed?

  7. hilsy85

    squash / 13764 posts

    @grizz: Aw The first rule of STTN is that you don't talk about STTN! I hope those teeth come through soon!

  8. LemonLong

    pear / 1698 posts

    @Mrs. Lion: we used the Moms on Call method. We fed every 2.5 -3 hours during the day, and I would wake her to do so if needed. We started out with bedtime between 9-10 pm, and as she got older it moved earlier and earlier. At 1, her bedtime is now 5 pm, and then she sleeps until I get her up at 5 am (She needs to be at daycare by 6). On weekends she will sleep in until 6 or 7 though.

  9. SleepyMonkey

    grapefruit / 4006 posts

    honestly, i believe that some of it is just luck. i find that HB moms (myself included) tend to try their very best to get their babies to do this and that, and the truth is....sometimes babies do what they want to do

    anyway, we had to night wean at 6.5 months, because i WOH and was suffering during the day at work. i knew that she could sttn because she had done it before and she was just waking up to nurse out of habit. "tanking her up" never worked because she only ate when she was hungry. we tried dream feeds unsuccessfully. the one time she did it, she still woke up at the same time in the motn. my pediatrician told me that at 2 months, they don't need night feeds any more...but i wasn't ready then to let her cry at that point. we tried sleep training at 3 months, 4 months and it finally took at 6.5 months. but only you know your baby and whether he/she and you are both ready for sleep training/CIO.

  10. winniebee

    hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts

    T would occasionally go without eating from 5 months on. But it wasn't consistent til around 8.5 months. We did some gentle sleep training (let him cry for 5-10 mins before responding) and often he would fall back asleep. He woke at different times previously and would pound a bottle if offered, but I don't necessarily think it was because he was hungry. We still fed him if he was sick and woke up until around 12 months.

  11. sunshineandsushi

    persimmon / 1165 posts

    Both my boys dropped their last night feeding around 3.5 months. It happened naturally and I'm so thankful for the timing, it was right around the time I went back to work.

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