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Nightweaning
Apr. 12th, 2011 06:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
puzzlementV is close to 15 months old. His number of night feeds and wakings vary from 1 to about 6. (I suspect the "underlying" number is 1 to 2, but he's been teething for about 6 weeks now with his first set of molars so... lately more 2 to 4.)
It could be worse as he almost always resettles extremely well after being fed, but even so, we need more sleep now, especially as I find it difficult to resettle myself if woken after 4:30am. I could probably do one night feed for the rest of my life, but anything more than that isn't ideal.
What usually happens at this point of the story is that the mother says "and I can tell he isn't hungry in the night, so that's OK." But... actually he does seem hungry to me, at least for most of the wakings. Occasionally there's a waking where he's more "phew, Mum still exists, all is right with the world" but many of his night feeds are voracious.
( Our setup )
So, given that I think there's a mixture of nursing-for-nutrition and nursing-for-comfort going on, what do you think we should do about night weaning, or reducing his night wakings?
It could be worse as he almost always resettles extremely well after being fed, but even so, we need more sleep now, especially as I find it difficult to resettle myself if woken after 4:30am. I could probably do one night feed for the rest of my life, but anything more than that isn't ideal.
What usually happens at this point of the story is that the mother says "and I can tell he isn't hungry in the night, so that's OK." But... actually he does seem hungry to me, at least for most of the wakings. Occasionally there's a waking where he's more "phew, Mum still exists, all is right with the world" but many of his night feeds are voracious.
( Our setup )
So, given that I think there's a mixture of nursing-for-nutrition and nursing-for-comfort going on, what do you think we should do about night weaning, or reducing his night wakings?
