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winning weaning
May. 23rd, 2014 07:50 pmIt's the life of Riley at our house, man, until you turn seven months old. But then your troubles begin. You have to sleep in a crib. You have to start on solid food - and that means... THE WIPENING. And then there's the night weaning.
But at the age of eight months, 20 days after the beginning of sleep training/night weaning, it is reasonable for us to expect that:
- Rocket can be put down in his crib at around 7:15 pm and will go to sleep with no more than a minute or two of crying, IF ANY
- He will sleep till at least 6 am, maybe 6:30, with only one night feeding, which I wake him up for and which he will go right back to sleep after
- My boobs have adjusted to the night weaning and I no longer wake up in pain & soaked in milk. (I could have night weaned more gradually & given my boobs longer to adjust. I was so desperate for more sleep & fewer wakeups that I chose not to.)
Not every night goes this smoothly, but enough do that at this point it is what I plan on.
I'm keeping the one night feeding because my understanding is that night weaning cuts down on your daytime milk production as well (and indeed I have unfortunately seen a drop already.) So I plan to keep doing the 1 am feeding until Rocket is eating more solid food or until I just can't goddamn stand it anymore, whichever comes first.
Rocket has 4 teeth and he wants to crawl but he can't and he loves kisses and tickles and his brother and there is a very outside chance that he's learned the ASL sign for milk but a much bigger chance that he just likes to practice opening and closing his hand and he is in all ways a big bag of squishy adorableness. This has been your State Of The Baby Report.
But at the age of eight months, 20 days after the beginning of sleep training/night weaning, it is reasonable for us to expect that:
- Rocket can be put down in his crib at around 7:15 pm and will go to sleep with no more than a minute or two of crying, IF ANY
- He will sleep till at least 6 am, maybe 6:30, with only one night feeding, which I wake him up for and which he will go right back to sleep after
- My boobs have adjusted to the night weaning and I no longer wake up in pain & soaked in milk. (I could have night weaned more gradually & given my boobs longer to adjust. I was so desperate for more sleep & fewer wakeups that I chose not to.)
Not every night goes this smoothly, but enough do that at this point it is what I plan on.
I'm keeping the one night feeding because my understanding is that night weaning cuts down on your daytime milk production as well (and indeed I have unfortunately seen a drop already.) So I plan to keep doing the 1 am feeding until Rocket is eating more solid food or until I just can't goddamn stand it anymore, whichever comes first.
Rocket has 4 teeth and he wants to crawl but he can't and he loves kisses and tickles and his brother and there is a very outside chance that he's learned the ASL sign for milk but a much bigger chance that he just likes to practice opening and closing his hand and he is in all ways a big bag of squishy adorableness. This has been your State Of The Baby Report.
