If you nightweaned but let your LO nurse as desired during the day... - Page 2

[starlein26]

Originally Posted by zwitterion

So tell me the honest truth--is nightweaning going to drastically hasten overall weaning?

The long and the short of it is: No!

[spirit4ever]

I'm on night 4 of nightweaning, and it hasn't affected her day nursing at all!!!!!!!

Nightweaning never put a dent in my older boys day nursing either, I nightweaned at 2 and they nursed till they were 3!

[PGTlatte]

I nightweaned DS1 at age 2, when pg with DS2, because I did not want to be nursing two at night. He didn't completely wean until a couple weeks after his 4th birthday.

[lerlerler]

nightweaned at 2.... still nursing 18 months later (gee, i WISH it had an impact)

[SeekingJoy]

DD nightweaned at 26-28 months (it was an uneven process), and is still nursing well. I think she would be nursing even more during the day except I started to put some parameters on it. Nightweaning doesn't have to mean total weaning, although if you aim to get pregnant, it might eventually lead to weaning if/when your milk dries up.

[BetsyS]

Mine was down to 1 night nursing at 9 months, and completely night-weaned at 11 months (I pushed to drop that last feeding). They both nursed until 18 months.

[transylvania_mom]

delete, sorry

[doubledutch]

night-weaned ds1 at 18 months. he weaned at 3 years, 3 months (so 21 months later, lol).

[langdonslady]

If it helps any to know, my DD (my first) didn't get nightweaned on purpose, she just started sleeping through the night without a peep, in her own bed, after about 18 months. I weaned her at 2 1/2 years because I was pg and just couldn't handle the sensation, and wanted to resume eating dairy, which she was allergic to. So I don't think nightweaning was the beginning of the end for her.
A friend nightweaned her child as a young toddler also, and that child self-weaned at 5.