night feeds/wakings

[beckygatt]

Did he manage to find them? Even at 6 months? She'll put it in her mouth if its already in her hand but not sure she'd find it in the dark. If she could it would be great!

[kels]

my son doesnt have a paci?
well i will try and reduce feeds by 1oz every 3rd day, i wont keep volume the same otherwise what i do give wont fill him up.
i may just go in and say bottle in mroning,night nights and sit with him?

[anna*]

Kels, that's the point of reducing the formula gradually - it's outlined here. http://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=46907.0

The idea is that you don't have to go cold turkey on feeds but eventually they stop bothering to wake up for it.

[kels]

BW actually recommends reducing the feeds, this lady read somewhere else to reduce formula, keep water volume higher. ok its great that it worked though! don't get me wrong. but i don't think he will feel satisfied if is tastes like watery milk and may not up day intake as the volume is the same.
my only concern is seperate of this that he is a poor milk drinker and i dont want to risk him taking less, maybe i should wait till he off bottles?

[anna*]

It's just a different way of reducing the feeds. But yes, if you're concerned that he's not getting enough milk, it's not a good time to be reducing night feeds. Although perhaps skipping night feeds will make him take more during the daytime?

[kels]

i no,it may, some day he doesnt drink alot and doesnt wake in night and i would of thought he would and some day he drinks well and still wakes?!

[anna*]

Yeh they can be so confusing like that. Maybe it's not hunger waking him, but he's just got used to having a bottle when he does wake?

[b0nni3]

Hey Becky, about the paci thing - I think it was around 7 months. He used to only suck on our pinky fingers (hellish for us, having to bend over his crib) and when he was 6 months old we decided that was enough. After much deliberation we decided just to give him a whole lot of pacis. I remember a few weeks of it being a prop - as in, needing to replug at night - but it quickly ceased to be so. I think that happened maybe a week or two after he turned 7 months. Even to this day he spits out the paci after falling asleep and "re-fishes" if he needs it. He doesn't seem to depend on it too much because he is always happy to hand it to me when he wakes, _and_ sometimes he'll refuse it altogether and suck on his lovey.

[beckygatt]

Thanks bonni, will try to encourage that!!