Otherwise she sleeps through without any fuss. She sometimes wakes up around 1 am or 4 am, but I can easily re-settle her without nursing her to sleep. It took a couple of weeks, but my daughter is now 14 months old and sleeping through the night (7 pm to 7.30 am) without any feeding in between. We were way past that: it was time to drop those night feeds! Physiologically, babies may still need to feed at night until they are well established on solids, which is around 9 months old. But, even then, she would toss and turn for almost 2 hours before falling asleep again. She was still in our bedroom (in her own crib) and there was no way to re-settle her without a feed, or without putting her in bed with us. Plus she started waking up more often and was getting quite upset if I wasn’t giving her the boob. Particularly because I had to go back to work and be on the road by 6.30 am! I was starting to feel quite exhausted with all the waking up in the middle of the night. The problems started when she was 1 year old though. It was then much easier to go back to sleep.Īnd, other than the 4 month sleep regression, when she was waking up every 2 hours, she was quite consistent with waking up just once or twice for a feed (also read our article on combination feeding with some alternatives to exclusively breastfeeding). I just had to pull my top up and I could feed my baby in bed with all the lights off. By the time I went back to bed I was wide awake and it would take me forever to fall back to sleep.īreastfeeding, on the other hand, required such little effort, particularly when co-sleeping. I bottle fed my first daughter and I used to hate getting up all the time to prepare the bottle, turning the lights on, etc. I used to think nighttime nursing was so easy, particularly compared to bottle feeding. But, I must say, by 12 months old I was exhausted with all the waking up and I was so ready to wean her off breastfeeding at night! I have been exclusively breastfeeding my second daughter from birth and I have absolutely loved it. My Own Experience with Breastfeeding at Night Here’s all the information you need on how to stop breastfeeding a 1 year old at night, including tips on how to get your baby to sleep better so that they can start sleeping through the night. Do you have a 1 year old that’s constantly waking up at night for one or more feeds? It’s so hard, I know.
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