Weaning

When we did overnight weaning, we decreased the middle of the night feeds by a couple minutes every couple days and that worked beautifully for us. I plan to do the same thing to drop the last nursing session before bed.

I used a pacifier but also to wean him I did the band aid trick and after reducing feedings as much as I could I still had night time and after daycare feeding and on weekends I would feed on demand so I put band aids over my boobs and told him “no milk, no boobies” he understood and weaning went positively. Now I need to work on the pacifier. But I’m pregnant too so it helped me a lot.

I'm still trying to figure it out too. But I've been offering her more food like 2 hours before bed and have her play and crawl around untill she gets tired. She'll still fall asleep on the boob but she's starting to fall asleep faster and not on it as much

I am also trying to figure this out! It hurts my heart to deny her. She is teething and it is the only thing that seems to help. She got teeth later than most it seems

I’m in this exact situation I’m pregnant and my first literally just stopped I started with only breastfeeding at night and then I finally stuck it out and stopped at night it’s now been 2ws without breastfeeding I just recommend going cold turkey and pat him at night at just keep fighting it

And trust me I get your baby being so dependent on boob I breast feed no bottle all his life so it was extremely hard to get to that point

@Jalyn yes my son has never taken a. Bottle he’s drank out of a straw cup for water and now whole milk but to get to sleep at night he has to bf and I think it’s cause he’s don’t it since he was a baby is use to it

I am also pregnant and starting to dry up now. I've recently done the same with my 17 month old. I started soothing her by patting her butt and laying with her. After a week, she stopped expecting milk at night. That time frame is a little rough, though.

@Alexus hey at least your son will drink whole milk I’ve tried to fully switch him on milk but he refuses it still he will have sips here and there he survives off watered down juice lol

@Jalyn lol yes it took me a while to get him to drink milk but I barely give my son juice and my Pediatrician told me to only give him a little amount of water and only offer milk so that he’ll take it more but that’s because my son neeeded to gain some weight plus they get enough water out of the food they eat and stuff like that. Kids are tough especially EBF baby’s lol

Think of it as changing habits; that way when he cries it’s easier to stick with your guns. He’s sad because of the change and that’s normal. Is he in his own room yet? Is your husband patient and willing to help? Some tactics are to introduce a bottle with water, a binky, bring back some of the newborn tactics that worked; bouncing, singing, stomping around w/e it was. Wear a sweatshirt so you can’t whip them out. It actually is a lot easier than you’d expect. The first night is rough, but you are giving your baby the opportunity and gift to learn how to sleep on his own which will help him his whole life. Other things I found helpful were 1) a baby expects what put them down to get them down again - so if it’s boobs they want boobs; if it’s the rocking chair then the rocking chair will work again. 2) night feedings mean the digestive system is active which interrupts sleep. Once you really get sick of it you’ll do what it takes lol it’s definitely a time to get creative again.