Night Weaning

Do you nurse them before he goes to sleep? If not, you can give him a little cereal with his bottle before he goes to sleep. I just found out with my boys (they're 14 months) that if they eat something around 8pm (I put them to bed at 9pm) then they sleep throughout the night. Then at 8:30pm I put their pj's on and change their diapers so that they don't overwet their diapers in the middle of the night and wake up because of that.

Then if by chance they do wake up in the middle of the night, I do not nurse them, I just either give them a pacifier and lay them back down or if that doesn't work, then I rock them to sleep. And that usually just takes about 5 minutes or so. After doing that for a few nights, your son will get that he does not get nursed and won't demand it after awhile. Sometimes babies who know they will get nursed in the middle of the night will still wake up just so they will get nursed. If they know they don't get nursed in the middle of the night, then they tend to sleep through especially if they got that snack a couple of hours after dinner.

Hi A.,

When I weaned my son from the night nursing (he was about 14 months), if he woke up and I thought he was hungry I would offer him a drink and a small snack (a cereal bar or something similar). I know your son is younger so I'm not sure what he eats now.

I wouldn't say that weaning him at night made him sleep straight through. But it helped a smidgen. Tiny bit. I think until they are done teething, there is always a chance they are going to wake up at night. And then there's nightmares, etc.

My son is 20 months, we just switched him to a toddler bed, and he for now seems to be sleeping through every night.

Good luck!

If he's hungry at 10 months during the night, I would suggest feeding him more during the day. More food may help. When my son was that age, he still woke up to nurse more than once at night, and I know they don't really need to eat around the clock.
If you have a husband or partner to help you, I'd suggest when baby wakes up, have dad go in, not you. Dad can give baby a cup of water. Then after a few days when baby realizes that's what he'll get during the night, just leave a spillproof sippy of water in the crib (or a bottle if he doesn't take a sippy). Often when they realize they'll just get water, they stop waking, or at least if they see their drink is there, they don't need to wake you.

Hi Andra,
Did you check if he has acid reflux, check that with your doctor because my son had the same problem and nursing make it even worse, and after I gave him medicine for reflux he start sleep throw the night.
Please try your best to find the reason, there is a reason for it, do not listen to the doctor and people that saying, don't worry he is going to be OK when he gets older. because you are going to be more and more exhausted.
Good Luck and take care.
Narges

All babies are different, and learn to sleep in longer stretches at different times. Sadly, night nursings are usually the last to go. If you want to wean at night, you probably need to add those nursings he will be missing back into the day. After all, he'll be skipping a couple meals if he goes without. (meaning, he may keep waking because he's legitimately hungry).
The book Good Nights has a great plan for helping breastfeeding babies learn to go back to sleep at night without nursing. Maybe you can find it at your library.

He might just be using you as a pacifier. My sister actually has a 6 month old that will sleep until about 2am then she wakes up for a "feeding" sucks a little bit and then goes back to sleep. I know a pacifier seems like a bad idea but try one or try just comforting your son by touching his arm while he is in his bed to let him that you are right there. good luck!