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Need Help Weening Night Feedings
Asked by I.F. from Columbia
on November 2, 2006
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I am the mother of a 10 1/2 month old baby girl. I have been nursing her the whole time. I am trying to find a way to ween her from night feedings. I feed her dinne...
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- you could try what my ped suggested. try pumping some milk and giving a bottle in the middle of the night. the dr. suggested that i water it down more and more each ...
- Hi I., I actually gave my son a cup as I was rocking him to bed at night. This made him feel like a big boy and also got him transitioned from nursing to cups. If...
- Julianna doctor told me to stop giving her bottles after she go to bed at 7 months and instead of formula in a bottle give her a bottle filled with water instead. For ...
What Is Babywise V/s Baby Whisper? Needing Help to Get My 9 Month Old Sleep
Asked by M.D. from Brownsville
on August 31, 2008
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Ok, I thought I never ask anyone for advise, hey this is my 4th one...I should know better by now. Right? But he is different and demanding. He is very healthy and hap...
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- Babywise was a system developed by a male minister (not a doctor) and re-written a few years later to appeal to a broader public as the original wording used a fairly ...
- Babywise is a book by Gary Ezzo and Robert Bucknam. You can buy it online, I don't know about book stores, I'm the online kind of gal. But these books will definitely ...
- Hello, do not feel bad I am going thru the exact same thing on my second little girl. She is 5months and in that same pattern, she wants to nurse every 2 hours for abo...
Help! in Need of Tips of How to Night Wean/reduce Night Waking in a 15 M/o.
Asked by A.O. from St. Louis
on April 2, 2009
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I have a 15 month old who is still waking up a minimum of twice a night and we nurse back to sleep each time. I'm ready to start gradually weaning her and night weani...
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- Hello A....I have been where you are right now, but as I recall ( My "Baby is 25 so some of the details have blurred!!!) I was not nursing at the time. She would wake ...
- What I did to ween my son 16 1/2mths later, he is now 3. I would give him a sippy cup of milk and a snack and play with him to keep his mind of of the feeding for tha...
- It sounds to me like she is waking up at night out of habit rather than out of a need to nurse. I actually weaned my son from night-time feedings (I nursed until 13 m...
Advice on Night Weaning
Asked by J.T. from New York
on March 31, 2009
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I have been nursing my daughter Riley since she was born and truly love the experience. However, I am so sleep deprived that my husband and I both agreed that it is ti...
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- Dear J., I started to night wean my 18 month old daughter at 17 months of age. I'm a single Mom who works full time and sleeps in the same room with my daughter (due...
- J., You've gotten a lot of good suggestions, and I just wanted to offer another book recommendation (not that you have the energy to read more...!): Healthy Slee...
- Hi - I did this with my now 4 year old son when he was about your daughter's age. Basically, when he woke at night, I went in and picked him up, but told him "No ba ...
Help Nightweaning a 10 Month Old
Asked by C.C. from New York
on March 16, 2009
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Hi everyone. My little one is 10 months old and still waking up a couple of times a night to nurse. I am tired and need a night's sleep after all this time. Could yo...
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- With my daughter I decreased the amount she ate every night. Of course by this point she was bottle fed, but you could decrease the time by a minute or so every night...
- Hi C., My 2nd baby was breastfed to 13 months, and still woke more than once during the night most of the time. To be honest, I found it easier to just nurse him. I...
- Hi I have 2 girls and I just stopped night feed a month ago for my younger one. My daughter goes to bed by 8.30 so she would wake up during the night hungry.I did bre...
8-Month-old Breastfeeding at Night
Asked by M.E. from Philadelphia
on May 9, 2008
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My son is 8 1/2 months old and a big boy. At 6 months (last weight check), he was over 20 pounds. He is breastfed and on solid food. He has never been a very good slee...
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- There is NOTHING wrong with a child his age wanting to nurse- night or otherwise. You should be very proud of yourself that you child still wants to nurse and can! ...
- Hi M., When I weaned my older son off of night nursing (your son is NOT too old for nursing, but also doesn't really need to be fed at night), I did a few things. H...
- Hi M.! My son is 13 months old and I'm still nursing 3 times/night. Everything I've read about the subject seems to be either black or white. On one side parents say...
