My DD is 6 months and at night she'll feed anywhere between 10:30-11:30 then somewhere in the middle of the night she'll feed again then finally again between 5-6am.
I am trying to gently wean her off the middle of the night feed by decreasing the amount of time on the breast every few nights. We got it down to 5-6mins but the last week a new prob has arisen. Usually I get let down in the first 30secs of feeding but now this feed its taking 4-5mins for let down to come. (It's just this feed the rest are always quick). So now how do I time how long she is on the breast to be able to cut it down? At present I'm stopping the feed after 3-4mins after let down but how can I keep dropping down the time til she doesn't want this feed anymore if she is still sucking away for 4-5 mins prior to that waiting for the let down? Or does anyone know how I can get the let down quicker like the rest of her feeds?
Does she need the feed, or does she just want a suck? Can you get her sucking something else and see if she goes back to sleep with that? Sounds like she's not wanting a feed, she's just used to having a cuddle and a suck at that time, which is why she's not stimulating your let-down.
I could be way off the mark here, but I've heard that this is the last hurdle before sleeping through really begins so just thought I'd share.
Hi there
Have you started her on solids. I know when I did with DS I found that he wouldnt wake for that middle of the night feed. He has farex for breakfast, lunch yog, and dinner vegies and he seem too sleep through once he was having his solids.
They say most of the time babies wont sleep through untill on 3 feeds of solids a day. Some bubs do but mine didnt.
I think it really just depends on the baby. I know thats probably not what you want to hear
My Aunty saud her 2 kids fed every 4 hours much longer than 6 months, and they did not sleep through until 24 months and 19 months.
Other than during teething/illness, Milo has slept through minimum of 5 hours at night since he was about a week old, and by 8 weeks was sleeping 8 hours.
He now averages 10-11 hours a night. Sometimes I have to go in and comfort him, but not get him up etc, and sometimes when he is crying he's still asleep.
Are you exclusively b/f? Would you consider giving her water at that feed, if you were certain it was not food she was after?
Or just trying to resettle her without a feed - this is what I did when Milo dropped the middle of the night feed.
Ryn- I don't think she really needs a feed as she is only on there a few mins, but she will not suck anything else.
Missy- She's been on solids for couple weeks now, just on 2 small meals/ day.
Rayray- She won't take a bottle or anything so can't try the water thing.
But last night she woke only 2 hours after her dreamfeed so I refused to give her a feed and settled her without one, took 15mins but then she slept for another 5 hours so all up that was 7 hours without feed, so I know she can do that.
Might just try settle her each night without the breast and hope she eventually stops waking.
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Any advice/ opinion.
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