If you have just
stopped nursing at night, comfort and assure your child if he wakes up, but don't go back to nursing him.
We know of wonderful mothers who do
not nurse at night, but they get up and respond to their baby, no matter how many times that might be.
My pediatrician told me that at 6 months, if he's eating / drinking enough during the day, then he's probably just
nursing at night for comfort.
He was down to just a couple of times
of nursing at night, but it was still disruptive for all of us.
Babies still like to have the reassurance, company and warmth
by nursing at night when they wake up.
He started to help me, as in, get our son for me and put back to bed so I could
nurse at night without having to get up.
However, I could never manage to clean their teeth
after nursing at night, and I figured the nutritious breastmilk did them more good than it would harm.
It is often recommended that a new mother nurse her baby every 2 - 3 hours during the day and go no longer than 4 hours
between nursing at night.
She needs to
nurse at night now, and it really doesn't matter that she didn't a month or even a week ago.
CHRISTINE STEWART FITZGERALD: We had a system where my husband you know, if you heard the baby storing, he would get up, he would diaper them and then he bring one to me because I wasn't really doing
tandem nursing at night but he'd bring one to me and then I'd kind of do the sideline thing, nursing her in bed and then, after that, she was done then we just switch and he'd you know, put that one down, get the other one.
I couldn't come up with anything between all and nothing, so my
son nursed at night until he was 4!
To the mothe of a strong willed 18 month old: my son I just now 6 months and I still nurse him exclusively but when he was 3 months he came down with an awful cold and wanted to
nurse at night like always to go to sleep but couldn't because his nose was so congested.
Now we
never nurse at night, and except for normal pregnancy stuff (getting up to go to the bathroom, braxton hicks, etc.) I sleep great!
The third kiddo I thought that I would nurse longer, until 2 years or more, but when I felt ready to not
nurse her at night so that we could both get more sleep, she wasn't really interested in day time nursing either.
Mothers who discover the ease with which they can
nurse at night when bedsharing report that they continue breastfeeding for a much longer duration than they would have done otherwise.
The problem is he's always preferred the left breast and I usually only
nurse him at night back to sleep because I'm too exhausted to get up and rock him back to sleep.
Davidson also says that if you are
currently nursing at night regularly, night weaning your baby might change your supply and affect your baby's breastfeeding during the day.
«You could try to
nurse at night instead of using a bottle so he knows that's the way to get food at this point, or you could try paced bottle feeding, where you sit baby up and the bottle is more horizontal than vertical so the milk flow isn't as fast, and also take frequent burping breaks.»