My son is now 14 months old and I already weaned him off
middle of nights feeding by letting him calm down with us in bed and repeatedly asking him to go to sleep, to go «mimi» (Spanish baby talk) then transfer him back to his crib.
Babies who are in a flexible routine will very often drop
the middle of the night feed by the time they are two months old.
Your infant will probably have given up
middle of the night feedings by this age.
Your infant will probably have given up
middle of the night feedings by this age (although some breastfed infants continue to have a feeding in the middle of the night).
Not exact matches
Because you can start this method
of training when your baby is very young — in theory from birth -
by the time your baby is ready to sleep through the
night, they can have already learned how to put themselves to sleep, the only remaining thing to be done is to drop the
middle of the
night feed.
The pediatrician also advises mothers to train their babies to learn how to be able to sleep
by themselves without
feeding in the
middle of the
night.
By five weeks, I was totally exhausted, those babies still didn't want to eat in the
middle of the
night, and on the understanding that the advice to do this
feeding was out
of concern for my milk supply, I started getting up to pump instead and let the babies sleep.
There's a blog written
by a same sex couple (two women) that describes what happened when their newborn was readmitted for jaundice in the
middle of the
night and the «baby friendly» hospital would not
feed the child even though the gestational parent couldn't have breastfed even if she wanted to.
Your infant will probably have given up
middle -
of - the -
night feedings by this age (although some breastfed infants will continue).
Essentially
by dream
feeding your baby, you're pre-empting a
feed,
feeding him before he's ready so that he doesn't wake up starving hungry and screaming to tell you so in the
middle of the
night.
Therefore, if you don't want to be woken up in the
middle of the
night by a hungry baby, then you need to encourage cluster
feeding.
When it came to
middle -
of - the
night feedings, the idea
of warming up a couple bottles with my husband and feeling like we were in this parenting thing together was much more appealing than stripping down and
feeding the babies all
by myself.
Top that with some serious sleep deprivation, turbulent hormones, and the cultural expectations around bonding, bliss, and being «mom enough,» and you've got another kind
of rude awakening on your hands — one not precipitated
by middle -
of - the -
night feeding requests.
We tried multiple times to
feed this to him, only to be woken up in the
middle of the
night by his panicked barking from his crate, followed
by projectile pooping.