My DS has been waking 3 times a night recently. Yes, it's tiring - but generally I just give him a quick feed and he's down again without any fuss. I've mentioned his night wakings to a few other mums, and they've come back asking if I feed him every time. I do. But they've said that they've heard that after 6 months babies don't need the night feeds, and if they're waking it's just out of habit.

Is this true? After I heard that I actually tried it with DS... but it ended with him being awake for 3 hours and being fed back to sleep anyway . If I'd fed him to begin with he probably would have just gone back down easily.

I guess I'm wondering if there's actually any truth to it, cause if so then I guess I could be getting DS to sleep through (or at least wake less). But then again, what I'm doing now works okay too...