night time

Okay so my little man will happily go off to sleep by himself through the day but I'm afraid to say at night he's in a BAD habit. You see he is waking every three hours and he wants boobie. He doesn't fall asleep on the boobs but will go straight back to sleep after he has been put back into his bed.

I am having to get up three or four times a night and he doesn't need these feeds. He eats plenty through the day.

How would you go about stopping. I was thinking about just refusing him but I'm worried he'll just cry all night. The crying until he stopped didn't work for us when trying to get him to go to sleep nicely at bedtime so not sure it would work in this situation either.

my boy was exactly the same...........he was about 8mths before he went to one feed then 11mnths after we gave him bottled water he decided this stinks so slept through at 1.........he is more then likely doing it for comfort..............let your partner go in instead of you as he will smell boob and think dinner time..........once he finds out dinner isnt coming it should be fine............i would start on the weekend as you could be up all night :) is he taking bottle too? or will he? cause if that doesnt work then try the warm water..........he may just be thirsty..........good luck and hoping my #2 is a good sleeper as im exhausted :)

At around that age Blake started waking every 3 or 4 hours instead of just the once like he had been doing. That probably lasted about 2 or 3 weeks (I was an absolute wreck!) but then he grew out of it helped I think by getting his solids well established. I fed him, when he woke he would feed for a decent amount of time so I figured he actually was hungry and to not feed him was just delaying the inevitable. I was a bit worried that I was setting up a bad habit but he now sleeps through the night fairly regularly so it seems no long term damage was done! If you don't think he's hungry though then that's a different story and I'm no use whatsoever!

Jack still wakes at least twice a night and he often wants a drink of water. I am quite thirsty at night as well.

I would suggest that if this is a relatively new problem it could be heat related and go away once the weather cools. If he is not going to sleep on the boob then the feeding is not necessarily a sleep association

I much prefered to feed Isabelle than try "other" means .. it was soo much quicker.

It didnt do her any harm .. (just made a tired Mummy, especially when I was back at work)