Um we weren't BF 6 times a night (thank god and all his minions lol) but prob 1-2 times a night? We introduced a sippy cup of water during the day so she got used to using it, altho I'd still offer her breast first before water iykwim....but at night when DF got up to her, he would offer her the water and 9 times out of 10 she'd take it, which reinforced my belief she was BF mainly at night for thirst and/or habit. As DF was always holding her then she was getting the comfort side of things from him

I'm not sure if I'd go cold turkey on 6 BFs a night to none BUT then having said that, you want your last one to be very clearly the last one you're prepapred to do until morning iykwim? So if you choose a midnight feed then i would still somehow try to convey that to her- I know, not easy at 10 months old.  I would def start saying milkies/boobies/whatever you call them have gone ta-tas or byebyes etc during the day when you're done BF and then when it's your last feed of the day try introducing something more like 'sshhhh milkies sleeping now. See you in the morning milkies'. Of course she won't understand but hopefully over time she will. Clodagh def understands now and understood I think a good few months ago....of course it took a while but now I just need to say (if I don't want to/can't BF her during the day) 'sssshhh milkies sleeping, see you tonight milkies'...she puts her wee finger to her lips and says sssshhhh lol  And in the morning if she's watching me getting dressed she sees my breasts and does her milk signal then says byebye and waves to them (we recently dropped the morning feed). It's very cute. I feel a bit sad dropping most of her feeds btw but my nipples are literally gonna fall off if they don't get some rest before new bubs comes!

That's my opinion on how you might wanna try stuff anyway. I'm no expert though hehe

T-Rex, suprisingly night weaning wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be.... Clody is also a bit of a dot, but shorter rather than skinny iykwim? She sits about the 50th percentile for weight for her age so I was never worried about her not getting enough calories or anything. And I'm pretty sure I would've been feeding her 3-4 times a day at that age? Maybe more? But yeah we had a looong BF before her bedtime, I just let her have her fill and she'd often fall asleep on the breast.

We went about night weaning by getting Daddy to go to her when she woke during the night. It took about 3/4 nights of her being a bit upset, but he was always there to hold her and cuddle her and give her a sippy cup of water etc, so it's not like she didn't have anyone iykwim? Now when she wakes she calls for Daddy and generally resettles fairly quickly.  I think I also made sure she was getting a good size dinner, complete with 'dessert' of yogurt and fruit and weetbix etc...stuff that I thought might fill up her wee tummy so I knew she wasn't waking from hunger.

You can only try it if you can't face BF bubs overnight! the only thing I would say is make a cut off time for BF that makes sense...ie a bedtime feed then the next one a morning feed. It's pointless (IMO) to say oh I'll feed her up till midnight, cos babies can't tell time lol so to her it's just dark iykwim? Dr Sears has some great advice in his books, as does Elizabeth Pantley  Oh I also told her that 'milkies' or-whatever you call them- where going to sleep too lol and that we would see them again in the morning

Um sounds about like what we had...except I think I was pg again by about the tiem Clody was 10 months old so I night weaned her (although still demand fed during the day).  We don't do CIO or CC either so yep it was a matter of lots of cuddles, lots of BF, lots of tears from everyone and not much sleep and quite frankly it was bloody awful. I thought I was getting PND at the time but it turned out to be utter sleep deprivation . It does get easier as they get older but having said that, we still get woken up twice a night now-on avearge- but resettling is usually fairly quick. Or we have nights like tonight where its been a work in progress since 7.30pm. Sigh. Can't help sorry, but can commiserate. ((hugs))

Until 10mo DD was similar.  It took hours to get her down to sleep at night and then she'd wake within 1-2 hrs, if I resettled her back into her cot it would only be for another 1-2hrs so she usually ended up in my bed on the first wakeup. 

By 10mo I was constantly exhausted, not eating properly because putting her to sleep took so long I missed dinner and by the time she was in bed I was too tired to care and at my wits end.  I was working fulltime and was in a rut - the norm wasn't working for me but I was too tired to do anything about it.  I spoke to several mums including Louise from The Sleep Store and took advice on how to encourage her to self settle, picking and choosing what would work for us.  I took a week off work to instigate the new routine which involved set bedtimes, no more feeding to sleep, no more rocking to sleep, no more night feeds, clearer sleep cues, darkened bedroom, lots of cuddles and reassurance (I won't do CC or CIO).  It took me an hour the first night to get her too fall asleep in her own cot, only 30 mins the next night but on the 3rd night she went to sleep almost immediately and what's more she slept through the night - I was stunned.  For months afterwards I still couldn't believe how well she went to sleep and slept through.

I started using sleep cues and routines when DS was still a newborn and he started STTN from 7mo, which is only 3 months earlier than DD but he was self settling from 7 weeks old and having decent daytime naps too (which DD didn't do).