Reduce Nighttime feeds

On the same boat, here to read the comments.

Hey mama ,You’re not alone. My 10 month old daughter still wants night feedings…My advice is to not be too hard on yourself, definitely have that bottle ready for him and when he starts fussing properly prop it up with a rolled up blanket and lay him on his side and put another rolled up blanket between his knees and at his back like a U shaped pregnancy pillow for mums,so he feels like he’s being held for comfort and so he doesn’t roll. I hope it helps

We talked about this with our doctor, the only way is weaning it, basically not offering the bottle anymore and it may cause a bunch of crying but by day 3 they will be fine. At this age they are just USED to it, not need it anymore. It's rough, not gonna lie but it'll be just fine. We did this at 6 months so by 10, they are way far good with they meals during the day

My 10 month old is still up twice almost every night for feeds… it’s exhausting and feels like it will never end.

My daughter wakes up twice a night like clock work. She goes to sleep between 10pm-11pm, and wakes up twice for feeding. She only drinks 4oz at a time, with cereal in it. My husband and I are exhausted 😩

Yikes my son is in bed by 6:30-7 but he is always up at 5 am. This is partly because that is what works best for me as I have always been an extremely early riser. He takes two naps throughout the day no more than an hour….curious to know what are your sleep schedules like and if this is the reason he’s waking or does he just need to be weened as @Manuela says. I read about weening off and it seems like they have just gotten used to a night feed. I’m currently pregnant with baby #2 and I’m scared if this continues this will just be one more feeding to an already disastrous newborn feeding workload.

You can get them used to not eating during the night by offering less and less milk during the night! With my son I would set a timer and only nurse him for a certain amount of time and then gradually decrease it. That way he was still getting some milk so I could get him back to sleep without tons of crying, but he was getting used to going thru the night with less milk.

My son is 10 month old and I give him his dinner closer to his bedtime plus put half a jar of banana baby food in his formula bottle right before bed. He now sleeps until 8 am when I wake up.

@Amy that’s a good point 👍 it’s ideal to sleep earlier but it’s hard when hubby and I are work different shifts in the day and evenings. Not ideal for baby but have to make it work with our work schedules.

I’m in the same boat with my 10 month old as well. The doctor told me to feed her three times a day so she’ll be full that worked for about 3 days. She’s start by to refuse food sometimes now or she’ll eat but still cry like clockwork at 3-330 and then between 5-630. So it’s not really going well

Offer water instead. Once they see they don’t get milk they’ll stop asking for it