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reneeC 
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Posted: 23 March 2006 at 9:51pm |
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my little one is nearly 11 months and when she is a year old i want to wean her off i was just wondering if there are any good tips i am dreading it for the simple fact that she isn't sleeping through the night and i we are still living with my mum so the whole controlled crying thing is a bit of an issue? would love some help
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nikkitheknitter
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Posted: 23 March 2006 at 9:58pm |
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Hrmmmm... well this isn't really going to help with the sleeping through the night thing.
I started cutting down breastfeeds, one per week (or every couple of days) and replacing them with formula (she wouldn't take cow's milk at that stage), then she cottoned on to what I was doing and started refusing formula too. So I just continued to offer to her and if she turned it away then she didn't get any milk at all.
After a while of having only one breastfeed per day, I decided to try the last feed as a bottle. At some stage she took it when she realised that if she wasn't going to drink that then she'd get nothing - then she'd drink anything!
Switched to cow's milk and haven't looked back.
It did take a while though as I was anxious that if I didn't give her a bedtime feed then she wouldn't sleep through. So yeah, that was why it was the last feed I dropped. In the end it was a matter of trying her with a bottle because I needed to go out one night. Fortunately she took it then otherwise I'd have been screwed!
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Posted: 23 March 2006 at 10:00pm |
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I don't know if this helps at all... but controlled crying wasn't working for me, neither was trying to soothe my darling to sleep... again, in the end I just had to be tough and let her cry it out. She went to sleep much faster than any other method! (Seemed to renew her efforts to cry when I used controlled crying)
They say it takes 3 nights to change a babies habits. Unfortunately that means staying strong for 72 hours, but you can do it!
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Posted: 24 March 2006 at 8:18am |
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how many feeds are you giving at the mo and what time does your baby wake, these things could make a diff. with my son he just seemed to drop feeds himself. well sort off, one day we were out and really busy and i forgot to give him a feed and he didnt complain and when i realised i felt stink, but tried it again the next day and hey presto one feed gone. mind you i also never replaced it with a bottle or anything and he was sleeping thru earlier than your baby.
have you spoken to your mum about it?, she may have some ideas. i know my mum is a bit old fashioned with some of her advice (like why are you still b/f at 6 months?) but she did also have some really good helpful advice too.
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AnnaD
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Posted: 24 March 2006 at 8:36am |
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Quinn would never take a bottle or drink milk. In the end, he was about 13 months and he was down to one feed in the morning and one in the evening. I slowly dropped the morning feed so he was only having one. He didn't even care! Then after weeks of psyching myself up for it I stopped his evening feed. Once again, he registered no complaints!
I was like Nikki, thinking that if he didn't get that feed at night he wouldn't sleep thru. But, basically he very rarely sleeps thru anyway and whether or not he had that feed there was no difference. When he wakes up, I ignore him for as long as possible. Sometimes he puts himself back to sleep but sometimes I get up,lie him down, tell him to shoosh and leave. He knows the deal now and goes back to sleep.
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Anna and Quinn 10 July 2004
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reneeC
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Posted: 28 March 2006 at 9:16pm |
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ella at the moment is having around 2-3 feeds a day with lots of water in between. i have tried giving her a bottle but she will have 50mls and thats it lately her sleeping pattern hasn't been to bad going to bed between 5 and 6pm then waking at 4am then 7 i think i am more or less worried about when i do stop b/f how will i calm her back to sleep i don't wana b a mum who is still b/f when they can ask for it!! ( no offence to those mums who are) i am such a softey and i think i am in the habit of just getting up still half asleep i might add feeding her and then back to bed i don't usually fully wake up you could call me a zombi hehe
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weaning off the breast???