Weaning nearly 1 year old...

well i think it's time To Wean. I feed Luke bedtime feed and a night/early morning feed around 5am. Sometimes another morning feed so all total 3 BF a day.

He has bottles during the day usually 3 of around 100mls each. 9.30am, 1.30pm,4pm.


I have tried giving him a bottle at the bed time feed but he doesn't want it only wants to be BF.

Luke is happy to take bottles in the day but bedtime/ night/morning he wants Breast.

What can I do??? Now he's nearly one Plunket says he should be on about 2 - 3 feeds a day he had 6 feeds today

He eats really well loves his food. So the amount of milk is not affecting that.

Help!!!!!

Yeah why do you need to wean?

You could just cut the bottles down/out or give him water etc from a sippy cup instead.

I just re read it and it does sound confusing!!! Sorry.

I want to wean to stop the waking at night/early morning it is sometimes 5am but has become anywhere between 3 - 5 am.

So yesterday he went to sleep at around
7pm
woke at 2am
went back to sleep at 2.10am
awake at 2.30am
Fed at 2.38am
asleep at 3.00am
awake/ fed at 5.00am
asleep at 5.15am
awake at 8.10am.


I just want to sleep all night!!! and not wake at 3am!! or 5.30am.!!

So thought weaning may be best as have tried crying it out but it hasn't worked so far.

also as he is 1 in 10 days thought I should cut back his feeds?

If I were you I'd look at upping his solids during the day and letting the milk feeds drop back gradually, to help his night sleeping. I weaned my eldest at that age (from bf) and the 2nd eldest one month prior. They had continued to wake every night and when I weaned, they stopped waking in the night. I'm not sure whether it was comfort/habit or if they were just digesting milk too quick and not having enough food. But since you have tried CIO, the solids intake is probably the next best thing.

And you could try introducing water with meals and milk in between...

ETA: if he's not so keen on formula, skip it entirely and introduce cows milk - with a small amount of milo if he needs convincing!

Edited by busymum

Michaela's waking for night feed up until 10 months was because she had problems self settling. Once she learnt how to self settle at 7pm she started staying asleep until 6am. The sleep store helped me create a routine that she and I were both comfortable with (no CIO or CC)

You could try sending someone else in with a bottle at night. If there is no breast on offer he may take that instead, if hes hungry. We sent my mum/DH in for a few nights when Jake got in a bad habit of waking heaps after a sore tum (about 5.5 months, after starting solids). After a few nights he was down to just one feed of only 100mls, which we dropped with a bit of crying - far less than I imagined though - about 20mins the first night, 12mins the second night then he slept through from the 3rd night. Not everyones cup of tea, but I was exhausted! And I knew he didn't really need to be feeding in the night - he was just using me as a comforter.
We also did as someone above suggested, gave him a toy/cuddly which he still uses to self-settle in the night.

I agree with SimoneF too - could you make him hold out for the milk feeds during the day and have a 200ml bottle instead? That may encourage him have a larger last feed so he isn't waking hungry.

Thanks everyone for your advice and ideas

I had to work late tonight had a meeting so DH was there to give dinner, do bath, e.t.c and Luke took a bottle, 100mls for his last feed.
Which was excellent So happy he fed, even though it was only 100. Today he had 4 bottles between 100 - 170 mls each so he did have more today which was good.

So the plan is to offer water when he wakes at 3am we have offered bottle DH has done this and he takes 100mls.But DH is tired too and needs sleep too.

So will see how it goes. I don't really want to wean but NEED SLEEP!!!! So will see how we go....

Luke fell asleep early last night, 6.20 pm so when i arrived home at 7.15 he was already alseep. Usually he is in bed at 7pm or just after. So was expecting him to wakre up early for a feed.
He woke at 2.30am for a feed I fed him as I hadn't fed since the night before and had heaps of milk and leaking every where. So he fed well and then woke at 4.30 fed one side and back 2 sleep. Awake for the day at 7.30am.
So i didn't stick to my plan... Thought i couldn't as if i gave him water he wouldn't drink it as milk was dripping everwhere!!!

Have decided to stop night feeding during weekend as have more time and won't be working the next day !!!