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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, is the problem just the number of night wakes or is it also really difficult to get her down to sleep for the night (i.e lots of wakes on transfers and having to start the whole thing over)? If she goes down relatively easily but is just waking a bunch to nurse back to sleep, you could try to gently night wean her. She’s only 7 months, so maybe pick a cut off time to keep a night feed (say one feed after 6 hours or whatever) but otherwise send your husband in to do the soothing back to sleep via rocking, singing, bouncing, whatever works for her. If she (and he) are used to you simply nursing her back to sleep for every wake, the first few nights will likely be hard. But hopefully she gets the hang of it, goes back to sleep with other forms of comfort from the non milk source, and without multiple night feeds, stops waking so frequently.

This is what did the trick for my son around the same age. Though instead of a cut off time, we did a dream feed around 11pm to be sure he was full. Once he got used to my husband responding to night feeds without milk, he stopped waking, and we cut the dream feed a month or two later when he was solidly eating 2 meals a day on top of milk.[/quote]

I had been considering night weaning so this helps. Since I’m breastfeeding it’s hard to know how much she’s taking and whether she’s truly hungry but my sense is it’s more for comfort since she used to only wake once a night to feed and now wakes many times throughout the night. I’m so tired I forget to think of things like this. Thank you[/quote]

Pp here. Mine was similar though bottlefed during the day so a bit easier to know. He had gone down to 0-1 night feed before the 4 month regression when sleep became an all out battle. Then we just got in the groove of it being easiest to nurse back to sleep for the night wakes. But I noticed he was barely taking his morning bottle feed after we got in this pattern. So when we switched to an 11pm dream feed and then otherwise sent my husband in to respond to wakes, he was suddenly taking a full feed again in the morning. This set us up for more regular full feeds all day too. And I think was a snowball effect for him sleeping better at night.[/quote]

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