Trouble with Early Morning Nursing

[bronxmom]

I have a problem that I'm not sure what to do about. I have a 13 month old who still nurses around the clock and pretty frequently - I'd say it's 80-90% of his nutrition at this point. He nurses at night and I have no problem with it as I mostly sleep through it and it's really slowed down (I think - I don't even really know because I don't wake up much). However, he has always tended to cluster a lot of feeding in the early morning hours. For example, around 6am will nurse for an hour or more practically non-stop.

My problem is that I need to get up at 7am to take my older daughter to school and him to daycare on 2 days of the week. For the past 2 days, he was nursing right through 7am and I couldn't unlatch him - even though he nursed for well over an hour, if I unlatched he started crying pretty badly. My daughter ended up late for school. This is the most important and extreme example but in general it's an issue that he nurses pretty regularly from say 5 or 6am to 8 or 9am. For ex., I also can't really get up and go to the gym while my partner sleeps with him because then he'll wake up.

Is there anything I can do about this? I have no interest in night-weaning and not even sure that would help the early morning nursing. But I do need to be able to count on getting up and out of the house between 7 and 9am. Is there any way to get him to not nurse at that time?

[spirit4ever]

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All 3 of my dk's were massive cluster nursers from about 5am on, it's hard, I work at 7:30am(home dAycare) so I try to have us up by 7am, by that I meAn up and out of bed, otherwise dd (18months) will just nurse none stop, often though if we leAve the bedroom she is too busy playing. And
nightweaning never helped us with the early morning sessions!! Not unless I wanted to get up and about At 5 am!!!

[nerdymom]

Can't offer any help but it's good to know I'm not the only one with an early morning feaster. But I have the luxury of not having to get up early either.

[Harmony08]

I was just going to post a question like this! Sorry, I have no advice just support. I too have an early morning feaster. I don't have to be up though so I recognize that it isn't the same problem. My guy will nurse non stop from around 6 until well forever. Sometimes I can finally get away and he may sleep awhile on his own but on the roughest days he gets really upset if I unlatch him. It is like he isn't totally asleep but he is no where near ready to be awake. What is that? I have often wondered if it isn't real sleep and I should just gently get him up. What happens when you just get your guys up?