weaning suggestion pls

ladies,
My baby is 1 yr old.he is almost weaned...except that during his afternoon nap&at night he want to nurse......he will never sleep without nursing&even when he wakes up in the middle of the night,inorder to go back to sleep he wants to nurse!!!!its not nutirtion or hunger but is more of the comfort factor.....dont know how to kick this habit.......suggestions pls

am also going through the same thing. have tried formula milk but he hates it:confused:.....

Mine is just 6 months but still I am also going thru' the same stuff all day especially at night. When hungry I feed her but most of the times she wants to just hang in there to go to sleep even after she is full with cereal, doesn't take formula or pumped milk. I feeling very tired.

Please some suggestion.

Thanks in advance
-Dhivya

even i h ave the same problem my baby is 8 months old...he wants to nurse especially in the night times....it is not a metter of hungry but i think its more comfort thing..don't know what to do..

Hi Girlies,
If you can acess vepennai, that is neem oil the baby will give up at once.Apply on nipples when the kid asks to be nursedit has a very bitter taste and so the reaction.My almost three year old younger daughter was thus weaned at one and a half years by this method. Hope this helps, Good luck.

Hi,

What helped me was this : make the baby sleep away from you - preferably you sleep in another room and let the baby sleep with your husband. Do this for a couple of days. Whenever the baby cries, dont go there and let your husband comfort the baby - after a few tries, the baby will accept the fact that mother is not around and will settle down.

When you dont want to nurse and when there is no one around to hold the baby, never take the baby to the usual place where you nurse. Divert and play till somebody else can take over - takes about a week or so to kick the habit completely. All the best,

But there is one issue - Unless the whole family, mainly you and your husband are strict about this (you not entering and he should comfort the baby without letting the baby cry too much), this will not work out.

Cheers,

Sumathy

Hi All

Why not use a dummy! (think its called a pacifier in some countries). If its just comfort - its better than babies getting into the habit of sucking the thumb.
But why the hurry to wean. Breastmilk is still the best - tinned milk doesn't have the antibodies etc that breast milk has. Its said that when a baby is sick the mother's body makes antibodies for the childs sickness!! and this is given through the breast milk.
My son was 7 weeks premature weighing only 1.8kg and then dropping to 1.6kg in hospital. The paedritrician insisted he be only breastfed because of the the benefits of breastmilk and baby's digestive system being immature. So while he was in hospital I had to even pump milk and leave for him. When we brought him home I used to end up feeding him for an hour - well he'd doze off in between. We were so concerned about him putting on weight that I put up with it however when I asked the doctor he said baby was using me as a "dummy". 8 minutes on each breast and stop. Only after 2 hrs (maybe 2 -3) should you feed again. Baby will empty each breast in that time or drink as much as he needs. When he was abt 18 mths he stopped. For the 1st 3 yrs he hardly had any colds, flus or sicknesses yet he was born in winter and premature.
Don't stress too much esp if you are at home cos 18 mths or 2 yrs is NOT such a big chunk from our lifetime, hopefully! to sacrifice for your child' health.

Regards Neesha

Neesha
your reply is good.

I am just going to wait until my daughter outgrows this habit(feeding for sleeping), only problem is that she spits up a lot especially when she does this but have its getting little bit better.

Thanks everyone for ur reply.

-DSrini

Originally Posted by vidhukumar

ladies,
My baby is 1 yr old.he is almost weaned...except that during his afternoon nap&at night he want to nurse......he will never sleep without nursing&even when he wakes up in the middle of the night,inorder to go back to sleep he wants to nurse!!!!its not nutirtion or hunger but is more of the comfort factor.....dont know how to kick this habit.......suggestions pls

hi vidhu
i had gone through the samebut forlast 1 month i m able to get rid of my 19 month old son's habit. i bought dabur chawanprash but my son didn't like its taste , so 1 day when my son wascrying for milk i applied chawanprash on my nipples and triedto feed my son. but when he tasted it he spitted n said mama chi chi .after that whenever he asked for the fed i repeat it .he used to cry alot that he is not able to drink it. but i stick to this game. he cried very badly but i made it a point to apply it always. now i fed him only once in night. now he never ask for it during day. i fed him at night b'coz i feel that he might be hungry.
you can also try this with something whose taste is not good and not good looking. but remember that ur child is not able to know what u r appling . read him stories when he is about to sleep. i hope this can help u .
shalu

Originally Posted by vidhukumar

ladies,
My baby is 1 yr old.he is almost weaned...except that during his afternoon nap&at night he want to nurse......he will never sleep without nursing&even when he wakes up in the middle of the night,inorder to go back to sleep he wants to nurse!!!!its not nutirtion or hunger but is more of the comfort factor.....dont know how to kick this habit.......suggestions pls

Hi vidhukumar,
My son is also 1 yr old, n I am also having same problem, u're going through. My husband tried to stop this habit by sleeping next to him, but we failed, as he cried n cried till morning n used to be very cranky in morning, b'coz of sleepless nights n stopped eating in the daytime. n become more clingy to me, so we decided to give up for a while, one of my tried n she's smileing with success, It's worth trying u know, u can ask u're husband r any other family memeber to takecare of baby in the nights, they say it takes abt a week r two not more than tht,It depends how strong u're, babies can be very manipulative, they make us do wht they want to be.
Here's is a link, which I tried to make my son sleep through the night, i hope this might help u!
cheers
shwetha
Sleep Training