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our doctor didn't say either way, but both our boys were done motn feedings/wake ups at around 3-5 months.

Our pedi tried to push us to drop MOTN feelings by 4-6 months but DD#1 was still hungry at the 4-5am wake up so I just kept going with it. She eventually dropped the feeding herself. With DD#2 this time she started stretching out her first feeding to 8 hours around 6 weeks and lately (2 months now) she's been going from 630/730p-530/630a so I just follow her cue. Some nights she wakes at 2/3a. I think I will stick with the on demand feeding like with DD#1 unless the MOTN get out of control.

My doctor said not to wake my LO for feeding during the night at her two week appt. She weighed 6 lbs 1 oz at the time. With both my girls I tried hard to establish good routines during the day and night time because my husband and I have careers that we need to be sharp for. I only have a 12 week leave so I need them to be STTN before I go back. My first (who was also low birthweight at 5 lbs 2 oz) started sleeping through the entire night at 8 weeks. My youngest is 7 weeks old and had her first 8 hour stretch last night. At this age, I only go in to nurse if they are full out crying in the night, and I do give them time to see if they will settle themselves first. They do a lot of fussing as babies which I ignore since I figure it's part of the self soothing process. Most times they will fall back asleep.

My almost two year old has never had a sleep regression and she went from first percentile for height and weight to 80 and 60. I breastfed her for 13 months until I became pregnant again so the early night weaning didn't effect my supply at all.

I hear a lot that people think early sleep training is cruel, it will kill your supply, cause failure to thrive, etc, but it really has worked well for us.