Less night feedings
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I’m no expert, but I have heard that babies 7 months should be able to go longer without eating. Everyone says different but I think 6-12 hours without feedings. So I would recommend trying to soothe with other methods when baby wakes up if it’s been less than x amount of hours. Or try offering less and less oz of milk until baby is weaned from those nighttime feeds?
Good luck!! It seems tough
@Michelle did you go into soothe every so often to sleep train or how did you do it?
I EBF so it's a little different but I don't think too much.. I'm finding that mine is nursing less during the day and wants to nurse all night long 😫 I think it's become a regular thing to be focused on everything going on around him and be too stimulated to want to nurse then when it's dark and quiet he realizes he's hungry.. I just started today trying to get him to nurse every couple of hours throughout the day, hoping he'll want less at night.
My baby doesn’t feed at night, he stopped night feedings around 3 months and has been sleep trained since he sleeps from 8:30pm-6am
Exclusively breastfeeding and my baby has been waking twice to feed, sometimes 3 times if it’s an off night or if she didn’t eat enough during the day
My baby wakes up 3-4 times to nurse. Not sleep trained. She’s 7 months. Probably could do less but not willing to sleep train
@Emilee first 3 nights I would intervene at 3 minutes, then 5, then 7,7,7….till she fell asleep. By night 3 she slept through the night. I continued if she would wake up and did 7,10,15,15,15… I would pick her up, calm her down, lay back down and walk away. We have some off days once in awhile around 4/5am. I will wait 10 minutes now. But she’s pretty good now and I’ll get multiple days of her sleeping through the night with the occasional wake up. But I’m so grateful for our sleep now and she’s such a happier baby because of it!
Easiest for me was cutting them cold turkey and I sleep trained. I started sleep training at 6 months. Life changing. No longer wakes up for feeds and sleeps through the night. He’s probably waking to feed out of habit. Make sure he gets his bottles in during the day, to avoid night feeds.