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[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]

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