Night weaning

Has anybody successfully night weaned a breastfed baby, who feeds for comfort at night?

My son is using me as a sleep aid, feeding on and off all night, and whilst I don’t mind a couple of feeds at night, I’d like to cut them down.

I don’t want to sleep train (we also bed-share), so has anybody successfully reduced night wakes & feeds via any other method?

Thank you!

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Following if anyone has tips

Same with me

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I did before by getting dad to go to him first - he attempted to resettle twice and if that failed I fed. It halved our night feeds! This was a couple of months ago though x

Same here.
I'm trying the Pantley pull off method (gentle method, no crying !) But it will be a long process I think and my boy just started teething as well which sets us back. Going to a breastfeeding group this morning to ask advice about this so I'll let you know if I get any good tips. :)

Following 🤞🏻 Breastfeeding and Co-sleeping. He feeds every 2-3 hours for comfort.

I stopped co-sleeping three days ago for the same reason, I was so tired and my back have been killing me, I’m doing the pick up put down training, that is more gentle, but it’s been so hard these past three days, but she has been eaten twice instead of 6 times, so trying to keep up with this.

Hey so I've just been to the breastfeeding groups and they suggested that I take a step back with solids in the day and focus on giving him more breast milk as it seems that where we are now he is taking most of his nutrition needs at night so will try to reverse that.
They also said that the second part of the night babies are on a lighter sleep, REM sleep so it's totally normal they latch more often.
They say kids will naturally wean off themselves at night around 14-18m if we are willing to wait for this to happen.
Also to add other sleep associations when baby falls asleep (lovey, white noise, patting, singing etc) to eventually try to remove the boob to fall asleep.

Hope it helps !

Hi. I know this is an old thread. My baby is 16 months and I’ve been struggling with frequent wakes and co-sleeping. How did you get on in the end with night weaning? Also, did you stop co sleeping at the same time?

Hi Naomi! I’m sorry to say that I am still breastfeeding and co-sleeping half on the night.. it’s been hard to continue a sleep training, never liked the idea of leaving her crying, now we have some bad nights (teething, the flu..) and some others not that bad (waking up twice) but so used to survive with these broken nights and just accepting my baby needs to be close to us at least half of the night :)

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