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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I just want to let you know that I went through this exact situation. DD was 9 mo, pediatrician was like "she should not be feeding at night" but nursing was the only thing that would calm her and I simply do not have it in me to do actual CIO.

I have two questions for you:

1) What is your daily schedule like? Do you work, is it full time, is it out of the house? In other words, what are YOUR sleep requirements? I think in retrospect the focus on getting my DD to STTN by my pediatrician was based on the expectation that doing one night feed was greatly disruptive of my sleep schedule. But I was working part time in the afternoon and was home with the baby in the morning for the whole first year. Which meant that I took a morning nap with the baby every morning at 8:30 or 9am. I was sleeping great, the 3am feed didn't bug me at all and since the baby never woke up DH, I did not view it as a problem.

2) What time does you baby wake up in the morning after doing a night feed? Mine would sleep until 7am. I later learned that many people whose babies "STTN" at this age also regularly woke up ready for breakfast before 6am. Truthfully, I'd rather do a sleepy night feed at 3am and go straight back to sleep than wake up at 5am to feed and then struggle to fall back asleep.

My kid naturally eliminated the night feed around 10 or 11 months. I think I did a dream feed for a while to help make it happen? But only like a week or two. We never did CIO.[/quote]

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