Does your baby still wake to eat in the middle of the night?

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Any tips to eliminate this would be much appreciated!

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Mine wasn’t until he started teething and then he started waking twice a night to eat, around 11ish then again around 3-4ish. At his 9 month checkup Tuesday the pediatrician told me to stop feeding him even if he wakes up because he’s just doing it out of habit and I need to soothe him back to sleep another way. HA! I tried that Tuesday night, made it through the first wake, he fussed and cried for about 30 mins but he woke up at 3 and after fighting him for nearly an hour I gave him the bottle. Last night I fought him for an hour at 1:00 and gave in and he woke up again at 5 to eat. I feel like he’s not gonna eat unless he’s hungry, because there are several times that I try to feed him and he just plays with the bottle. So he’s not gonna cry for an hour and wake up for no reason and I’m not gonna starve my baby just because the pediatrician says he doesn’t need to eat in the middle of the night at his age. I have an 11 year old so this isn’t my first rodeo, and if my baby is crying and wants to eat, no matter the time, I’m gonna feed him.

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Mine just stopped earlier this week and now that I write that she’ll be waking up tonight 😂😂

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I did what Taking Cara Babies suggests! I basically waited until the longest time she could go without eating was. So if she woke up to eat at 4am one night, then 2am then next, I wouldn’t feed her till 4am. And I basically used the paci to calm her for those two hours. It was pretty rough the first few times I didn’t feed her, but eventually she could go till 5:30am, and then she just naturally dropped it. I also dropped the feeding by a couple mins each time too, so eventually she was just nursing for like 4 mins at like 5:45am, and she ended up sleeping till 6:30 after that! I did this at 5 months too and it worked great!

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My babe still wakes once . I’ll let him ween himself off of it . And this also isn’t every night. He sleeps the night about 70% of the time and up once about 30% so I don’t think it’s to bad i don’t plan on cutting the feeding since he’s SO active

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I tried to eliminate feedings by pushing them back or forward. I also tried just going to her if she was crying and not talking or whining. I also tried rocking her and not actually feeding her. These didn’t work for my baby. She figured it out on her own. Good luck!

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I chose poll because she sometimes wakes to eat, about once a week. I let her fuss/cry a little (5-10 minutes) because sometimes she falls back asleep on her own. Otherwise, I feed her. In my mind, this is a temporary stage and I’d rather not sit up listening to her cry for a long time if she truly is hungry. She’s mostly BF so I know she isn’t ingesting a set amount of calories every day, and I figure sometimes she needs that middle of the night feed.

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My first was eating twice before day break even when her pediate asked me to stop, I tried but it didn't work, just one night at her 11th month, she woke up, fed her and she threw it up, that was d last day she wake up for feeed. She will be 2year this July and my 2nd will be 1year same july

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My daughter is still wakes once a night to eat. My first did too until she was 1 and I took the bottle. I hope that will be the case this time as well. She doesn't take a paci or have a lovey or even liked to be rocked. So it's been hard to get her back to sleep without a bottle. Though I really haven't tried a lot.

Does your baby still wake to eat in the middle of the night?

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