This 6-month sleep regression is lasting forever! Any tips or tricks? He is waking up to nurse as…

Feed him a bed time snack before he goes down for the night? Maybe rice cereal

My son went through this. It was awful. He didn’t start sleeping through the night completely again until he was 14 months and I stopped nursing him. Hoping your baby doesn’t give you as much trouble as mine did.

@tyrellp, he already eats dinner like 30 minutes before bed. I mix cereal, breast milk and veggies.

@mswedes, 😩 I’m worried how weening him will go if he can’t sleep through night by the time we do it. My plan is around 1 year

Last night was terrible for us also . Same thing up nursing a whole lot .nit felt just as bad as the new born days of not worse bc it was harder

To get her back to bed . I totally feel with u

My son's doctor told us not to do middle of the night feedings after 6 months of age. Apparently they don't need it anymore and it's more for comfort. She said don't pick the baby up, just comfort them while they're laying down and give them a stuffed animal of some sort. It worked for us! There are articles about it online too.

@meganph, my goal was 1 year and I was hoping to go as long as we could after that but I found that because I was nursing him when he’d wake up at night he became reliant on it. Then nursing was the thing that was actually keeping him up. If I could do it over, I wouldn’t have popped the boob into his mouth without trying other things. He ended up in our bed and with my boob in his mouth all night long. It was so hard on me emotionally, physically and mentally. Weening was hard for a few days but after about a week he’s been back to sleeping through the night.

@aengs2, I guess every dr is different. Mine didn’t say to stop. I’m not sure how that would go, because he typically doesn’t stop crying until I’m holding him and sometimes won’t stop crying until he is latched.

@mswedes, I have refrained from putting him in the bed with us. But, like you, I usually just pop the boob in his mouth when he cries at night. Sometimes he will let me just hand him his binky, other times he will keep crying until I take him out