Due to the continuous promotion of breastfeeding in recent years, there are now many mothers who continue to breastfeed their babies after the age of one. The housekeeper gives you a thumbs up! It's really not easy for a mother who can persist in breastfeeding until now. But at the same time, nursing mothers will face many troubles, among which night milk is the most complained about: fragmented sleep; Support the eyelids to breastfeed the baby; I want to cut off my night milk, but if I don't eat it, I cry; On winter nights, you still pick him up and coax him... Nowadays, you only have one wish: to cut off your night milk as soon as possible and sleep a whole night!
There are different opinions about stopping overnight milk. The regular parenting school believes that unnecessary night milk can lead to severe sleep disorders in infants, and if the frequency of night milk is too high, it can cause indigestion and excessive nocturia. Intimate parenting advocates that babies will gain more intimacy and security through timely response to night milk, and encourages mothers to persist in night milk as much as possible until the baby voluntarily weaned. The butler believes that the baby is now over one year old, and if night milk has seriously affected your physical and mental health, it is not impossible to make up your mind to cut it off. If you are restless every day due to poor sleep, it is the more terrifying thing for the baby. How to break it? Let's take a look at the tips provided by the butler:
Abstain from sleeping with milk
If your baby has the habit of sleeping with milk, then the first thing to do is to quit sleeping with milk. The methods that are more suitable for older babies are briefly described as follows:
1. Step by step method: When the milk falls asleep and becomes drowsy, the nipple is pulled out. If crying, it is stuffed back in, and when it becomes drowsy, it is pulled out again until it falls asleep without milk. If we can persist in this process every time we sleep, including waking up at night, we will see initial results in about a week.
2. Delayed gratification method: suitable for babies who wake up at a fixed time to breastfeed. Don't rush to breastfeed every time you wake up. Cry for 15 minutes first. If you can't sleep back, comfort yourself in various ways. As long as you don't cry too hard, don't pick you up and walk around to coax you. Wait for half an hour to an hour until you have no intention of sleeping back before breastfeeding.
3. Accompany sleeping and pretending to be dead method: suitable for milk sleeping babies who can stand up. No matter whether the baby falls asleep or wakes up at night, no matter how much they fuss, they just lie there pretending to be dead and ignore it. When the baby cries and gets tired, they will eventually flip around and find a suitable way to fall asleep. Breastfeeded babies can be accompanied by someone other than the mother.
Other methods
1. Drink enough during the day and before bedtime
Mothers should pay attention to their babies' eating habits during the day, as sometimes they may forget about feeling hungry while playing. In addition, to prevent the baby from waking up hungry in the middle of the night, the mother should make the baby drink enough before going to bed. If the baby falls asleep halfway through drinking, find a way to wake him up and continue feeding him. You can use burping, scratching the soles of your feet, changing diapers, shaking gently, or other methods to wake up your baby and let them continue eating.
2. Delay the time between two breastfeeding sessions
For example, if a baby wakes up at 00:00 and 4:00, gradually increase the interval between breastfeeding from half an hour. On the first day, postpone the feeding time to 00:30 and 5:00. After the baby wakes up, try to let him fall asleep on his own first. If the baby is not asleep but keeps crying, try soothing them by patting them, touching their back, or singing lullabies to them. Wait until the soothing method is used and he continues to cry before satisfying him. This keeps delaying the feeding time until the baby's first night milk is slowly delayed until after 5am, and then it's done.
3. Increase parent-child interaction during the day
For working mothers, babies may wake up more frequently at night, and they hope to have more contact with their mothers through this method to increase their sense of security. If a working mother wants to stop breastfeeding at night, she should try to increase quality parent-child interaction when the baby is awake. Stopping breastfeeding at night will be easier.
4. Replace milk with water
For babies fed with bottles, it is relatively easier to stop breastfeeding at night. You can gradually reduce the amount of milk in the bottle and mix it with water, then gradually increase the proportion of water until you transition to completely drinking water. There is no need for the baby to get up anymore.
