Lets talk about night weaning.

[happy_momma]

Before I start let me just say no judgements please. My daughter and I have a great relationship and by wanting to night wean, I am not trying topush her away. She is almost 9mos and is waking up anywhere from 6-9 times a night. When she wakes up, I pop my boob in, she sucks a few-sometimes alot. thegoes back to bed. She does not take a paci but prefers our finger. I have tried just giving her that which she goes for sometimes but usually cries until she has the boob. I wouldnt mind feeding her once or twice a night but this constant need for the boob is starting to drive me nuts. I would like her to sleep more at night and I would also like the option of being able to go out with friends at night and not have toworry that she will wake up and be inconsolable without my boob. Also she a has a few teeth and after paying thousands for my sons teeth due to night feedings, I just dont want to go down that road again...so, any suggestion on how to night wean as painlessly as possible?

[Zimbah]

I'm currently trying to nightwean my almost-11 month old. She had been waking frequently, sometimes for a full feed sometimes just for a couple of sucks. So I started cutting down the length of time I let her suck for in the night. Now I've got to the point where when she wakes I bring her into the bed, feed her for only 1 minute (I sing a song in my head to time it roughly) then put her back in the cot. She cries for maybe 30 seconds then falls back to sleep. For any wakings after 5am I let her have a full feed. I'm not sure whether it would help if I did a dream feed at around 10pm as well. I'm going to continue with the 1 minute feedings for another week (a fortnight in total) and then I think I'll try just bringing her into the bed and patting her. I think that transition will be harder for her than just cutting down the feeding times so there might well be some crying, but I know she's not hungry in the night any more, and I'm hoping that if she can learn to go back to sleep with the boob then it won't always have to be me that deals with night wakings, DH can take a turn too.