Night weaning

The time has come for night weaning...for no reason other than I'm keen to sleep for more than 5 hours in a row. OB was night weaned (by himself) at about 3.5 months and was sleeping 12 hours straight. But then we moved and he got a cold and it's been easier to night feed him since then - basically I've been lazy...

So on Sunday night when we got back from Katoomba I put him to bed as usual at 6.30 and was determined not to feed him (other than his "dream feed" before midnight) until 6am. He had his dream feed at 10.30pm and then woke at about 2.30am for his next usual feed. It took about an hour to resettle. At 3.30am he went back to sleep and slept until 6.30am (when he woke I fed him). I did have a backup plan incase he didn't just go back to sleep - I was going to feed him every second time he woke rather than every time and wean him slowly. 

Monday night he went to bed as usual, had his dream feed and woke at 3am for his usual feed. I gave him a sip of water and cuddled him and put him back in bed. It took about half an hour of cuddles and re settling to get him back to sleep. And he slept till 6.30am.

Last night (Tuesday) he went to bed at 6.30, slept all through taking him out to bible study, had his dream feed at about 10.30pm. Woke at 3.30am and I gave him a cuddle, changed his nappy (which i forgot to mention i did the previous nights) and put him back in bed. He went straight back to sleep (yippie) and slept till 5.30am. 

Not sure how keen I am on the 5.30am wake up - I'm quite tired today. Fingers crossed he will sleep right through tonight (theoretically that's what he should do, but what baby follows the book?!).

Looking forward to an uninterrupted nights sleep!