thread: When did you stop feeding (breast) your baby overnight?

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  1. #1
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    May 2004
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    My daughter stopped overnight feeds of her own accord at 10 weeks old.

    My son only recently stopped them just after his second birthday when he finally began to sleep through all night. I didn't change anything, he just stopped waking up.

    Look out in the morning though, the second his feet hit the floor he is straight into my bed to catch up

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    DS stopped at 12 weeks when he slept through, but took them up again at 6 months through to about 12 months. But then it was only once and he went straight back to sleep again. TBH I really loved that time of the night when it was just the two of us snuggled up together.

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    My DS is 9 months and still has one "real" feed during the night and sometimes a couple more to settle. (don't get much sleep in this house).

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    My DD 'stopped' bfing overnight quite young, less than 6 mths. She then started again at about 14-16 mths and didn't 'stop' for a few months. In the end, as she was doing it out of habit and hadn't done it for so long (which was playing havoc with my sleep since I had to work some days!), I introduced a cup of water instead and if that distracted her, she wouldn't have a bf. Once she was taking that the majority of the time I got a bit firmer and wouldn't let her, but she was well and truly approaching 2 by this stage.

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    Jun 2005
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    15 months for DS, and I weaned him off the night feeds by offering water instead. I mainly did it because I was pregnant.

    DD is still feeding through the night.. full on feeds. Am thinking about offering water soon to see if I can wean her off the night feeds.

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    Jan 2007
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    I think DS was about 9 months when got rid of the night feeds. I did it by progressively pushing back the time I would give him a night feed (eg. I wouldn't give him a feed before 2am, then a week later I wouldn't give him a feed before 3am, then a week later I wouldn't give him a feed before 4am, etc). I got DH to resettle him with a bottle of water & cuddles, no boob.