Some say night feedings are the toughest to wean off.
There is the «camp» (or school of thoughts if you want) out there that
says that night feeds are still important for babies under 12 months and shouldn't be skipped.
Not exact matches
Neill Blomkamp, the sci - fi visionary behind District 9 and this year's intriguing Chappie unleashed a flurry of Alien artwork on his social media
feeds last
night,
saying «Was working on...
Well
said jossy, there z no need for qualifying for a competition we will never win because of our clueless manager, its time to think about some thursday
night football, am
fed up of cl round of 16.
Indeed, we should have mate, as Luis from chelky, and you
said it as i pointed last
night... Kos is the only top class center back, Mus has qualities and spirit but not top class, let's get real, Kos even look strange because he is alone and
fed up after a while with these guessing positionning tactics all players look lost really, look at Bellerin!
About conceiving while nursing... we did not have a problem but I think it is because we got pregnant shortly after we dropped our
night feedings — they
say that if you nurse esp between midnight to five am that is the time your body is most likely to build up your supply and produce hormones that would keep you from getting pregnant.
Lastly - I am confused because in Babywise it
says to do 7
feedings a day but it's also
saying to do the dreamfeed to get them to sleep through the
night.
We give her a full 7oz bottle at 10 and she doesn't wake up for it but takes the whole bottle and spits it out when she's done and my husband
says (he gives her that
feeding every
night) that she's dead to the world.
BW
says they just eventually sleep through the
night, but did we wreck that by not having a dream
feed to begin with?
Elizabeth Kallen
said, «If I can't have caffeine after being up all
night nursing, then no one is going to get
fed, dressed, or loved!»
Anways I know BW II
says to
feed solids the first 3
feedings and end with a liquid
feeding but does anyone think it would be a problem to do the last
feeding with solids because she already seems to not get enough with just nursing in the last
feeding and thus wakes up during the
night, this has been ongoing for two weeks.
When you have a baby who was waking twice a
night to
feed until she was 6 months, and you
say «oh, this is really not too bad» but then they suddenly start waking more often until they wake up EVERY single hour EVERY single
night.
On his website, he
says that a baby over one year old who has received quality
night parenting up to that point may cry if not
fed on cue, but will be more angry than truly distraught.
Some moms also find they can pump less at work if they
feed baby more overnight or wake to pump at
night, too,» Gourley
says.
No one has mentioned swaddling yet here but for my girl the Velcro didn't work after she was keeping me up 11 to 2, as a routine I
said no this can't get in a habit is I opened my happiest baby on the block book and saw how the Dr recommends and sure enough stopped fussing and went to sleep and only
feed twice that
night praise god and this is her third
night of sleeping peacefully so I do what I want without anxiety not any baby blanket will do you need extra large and the right material light and heavy swaddleby design blankets
Those who
say «money isn't everything» have most likely never had to spend countless
nights awake worried about how they are going to
feed their children or pay their next gas bill.
«Physiologically, babies do not need to
feed in the middle of the
night from four to six months of age; they should be able to sleep for six to eight hours if you let them... no extraordinary measures like cereal needed,»
says Dr. Clemente.
Most mothers I have talked to
say they usually go out at
night after they have already put the kids down for the
night, so by the next
feeding, 6 - 8 hours had already passed.
They might start waking up at
night again and
feeding more often so who's to
say, you know, there's really not a set number but that 8 - 12 in a 24 - hour period, that one's a really, really, really important goal to meet, at least the very minimum those, that 8 times in those first six months.
Say you had twins and were producing 80 oz for them — eventually if you were nursing they'd sleep through the
night and you wouldn't wake them up to
feed them.
They
said that at 4 months children can stay in the same diaper overnight, and since my daughter was dry overnight at that time (3 months old) and I changed her diaper after the
night feed, I thought their advice made sense.
My baby was a nightmare like i
said, i finally managed to make him stop
feeding at
night.I use to give him kids rooibos tea but that
night i decided not to make it for him and hey it was n`t easy because he kept on waking up crying for it almost the whole
night but i just ignored him and i am telling you it worked very well because the following
night he slept the whole
night and till today we sleep like angels with my babyboy, so ladies i suggest that u give it a try even though it is not so easy but it worked brilliantly for me.
We found that we did decide if one woke up let's
say at
night time and with hungry we would
feed her and then we would go again and just
feed the second one sometimes sort of that dream feeling.
In his book Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems, pediatrician Richard Ferber
says unnecessary
night feedings may actually cause sleep problems.
They recommend having your baby sleep in a crib in her own room, rather than co-sleeping with you, though Ford
says it's okay to bring your baby into your bed after 10 p.m. to make middle - of - the -
night feedings easier.
Ford emphasizes structured
feedings from the start,
saying that carefully planned daytime
feedings help babies sleep through the
night sooner.
From day 1 she was in her crib in her room, her pediatrician
said at 3 months she no longer required
night feedings, and I gave her a chance to put her self back to sleep when she woke up.
While Chapman
said she may not be able to jump out of bed when the baby wakes at
night, she will still be able to hold, dress, and
feed her child, as well as change diapers.
«During daytime
feedings, I talk a lot to my baby, while the
night feedings are very quiet with as little light as possible,»
says one mom.
I'm not
saying to completely wean them, but think about cutting down the amount you nurse them and think about introducing formula so you can enlist your husband in middle - of - the -
night feedings, or evening
feedings.
There is so much conflicting advice about when to stop
night time breastfeeds: One book
says, «when your baby weighs ten pounds he will no longer need
night feeds» (Three of my own babies wouldn't have had
night feeds from birth).
While my daughter is in the 75th percentile for weight, my doctor
said I still had to nurse if she wanted milk during the
night - as long as she slept for at least four hours between
feedings.
My doctor
said to not
feed her because she should be able to go through the
night, but whenever I don't she just cries harder and harder.
She gave up a couple of days before her 3rd birthday, I cried the first
night she didn't ask for «boo boo milk» I had originally
said I'd go up to 1 year at most as
feeding a toddler was weird, how wrong was I!!!
My friend
says she still has to get up at least once a
night to
feed / comfort or the child will cry.
So, Kim, when you
say wean her off the
night feedings, it's difficult to do.
Seven months after having triplets, seven months after the non-stop
feedings, sleepless
nights, bleary - eyed conversations and relentless diaper changing began, Dana Teagarden of Miami can
say this in a happy voice:
My children were born yes they did wake up during the
night, 1 of them had colic and I use to walk the floor with her, but my mum
said that happens sometimes there is nothing wrong with it I was also breast
feeding.
When you're ready to
say goodbye to the nighttime
feedings, I'd try either 1) handing bedtime over to your partner, who can maybe fib on your behalf that you're busy doing X, Y and Z and won't be able to sit in the bedtime chair that
night.
Newborns sleep between
feedings all day and all
night long, Shubin
says.
Although I agree that an infant can become dependent on the breast to fall asleep and yes, once I gently weaned my daughter from
night time
feeds at around 10 months she did sleep for longer stretches but it by no means solved all our sleep «issues» — To
say that all healthy infants should be able to STTN at 6 months, is an incredibly discouraging thing to
say to moms who then start thinking there is something wrong with their child and in the end let them cry it out because they read articles like this where it worked for one person.
«I struggled to sit up in bed during countless
night feeds, partly due to having had a c - section, partly due to exhaustion,»
says Franki, mum of one, UK.
Most doctors and pediatricians in general would
say, she should be able to sleep through the
night without a
feeding.
With this being
said I will accept the offer once or twice while in the hospital to have the nurse
feed the baby a bottle in the middle of the
night.
I'm not
saying you do it every time, of course, because sleep is a beautiful thing, but there is such a power in taking a look around in those middle of the
night feedings, catching a glimpse of the moonlight, and really treasuring just being there in the moment with your baby.
CHRISTINE STEWART FITZGERALD: Yeah, just go back to sleep, yeah, but I think we did find here was like, round to four months, that's kind of when I think the eating patterns, you know, we're starting and I want to
say it was probably about four and a half months when we didn't have to do the
night feedings.
As it was, I listened to my pediatrician (who is unusually knowledgeable about this) and did something that every nursing advocate I have ever talked to
says (backed by at least on well respected org) to NEVER EVER do — ie I started skipping the
night time
feeding and stayed away from the pump.
They
said he would never learn how to «self - soothe,» fall asleep on his own, or sleep through the
night (because I was — gasp — nursing him every time he stirred, to comfort him, not just to «
feed» him).
so i re-read «healthy sleep habits» and noted Dr Weissbluth
says its «very common» for children ages 4 - 8 months to have one or both of these 2
night wakings, and
said it would be reasonable to respond with a prompt
feeding and right back to bed.
However, last
night she woke up every two hours, and one of the times I
fed her because she just kept crying, and the doctor
said that making her go completely cold turkey with the
feedings might be a shock to her system.