isod:

Hi Nairalanders,

I have a 5 month+ baby who is used to eating approx, every 3hours. During the night, he wakes up like twice to breastfeed. Now, this is causing some issue in my household as my hubby thinks he is cultivating a bad habit and Im encouraging him too. Im a working mother and I feel the only time he gets his antibodies and nutrients is in the night cos during the day he is on formula.

What do you guys think? (Mothers/ Fathers/ Doctors / Nurses/ )

blank:

for as long as baby demands ke? So, baby doesn't want junior abi? I will continue till he is 9 months and then water from then on. If he still doesnt get the message, i will send him to his grandmother. Even with all the eba, custard, cereal, cow and gate he eats before he sleeps, he still wakes me up 3 or 4 times a night. Sometimes, it feels like its a habit cos he doesnt eat much.
He is 6 months now and i want my nights back. Besides, he bites more at night.

I feel your pain. But you ladies bite more at night as well, we've got the scars to prove it.

Siena:

Continue night br[i]e[/i]ast feeding as long as your baby demands it. You may gradually want to introduce formula for night feeds, and reduce bre[i]a[/i]st feeding when he's 12 months+.

isod:

Yes my baby sleeps with me on the same bed. Efforts at making him sleep in his cot have been very futile especially as I have to go to work the next day. He sha wakes up thrashing hands and legs first, trying to feel me
I would try feeding him well before he sleeps and see how it goes.

Cant wait for the guy to start eating eba and the likes!!!
But its been a while I slept through out the night, I practically just move like a robot.

dominique:

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nice contributions (except phemmmy. . . don't even try it! ) that very question has been playing on my mind for a while now. my 5 month old son wakes me up approximately every 2 hours to b_.reastfeed. i was starting to wonder how much longer i was going to go through with this situation though i'm used to getting little sleep. now i'm trying to introduce him to formula and cereals with very little success. any ideas how to go about it?

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@ Plappyville, u are very right. I moved my oga to his own cot but recently, i have just been too tired to carry him back to his cot when he wakes up. That is why he has the temerity to kick me in d back if i am not fast in waking up or he bites my husband's elbow.   God knows we try but there are times it takes God's grace. When he wakes up in his cot, the kind of cry he cries eh, will wake the whole street.
Can't wait for him to outgrow this nightfeeding business. Eba no dey work for this young soldier not to mention formula.

Fhemmmy:

Why now, make i no talk my mind?
I am not joking with this things oh . . .very serious

dominique:

na you and your wifey get talk.

ronkebp:

My dear, i nursed my little champion, till he turned one. and i had to start weaning him because [size=14pt]he started sommersaulting on my bosoms,[/size] i was like, this has to stop. So we are still battling with that now, i would rather you pump, well during the day, so that he still takes the milk, and at night try substituting for something else, maybe his milk, (sma, goodstart, infamil, etc) because by the time he gets older, you will find it difficult to wean him, am learning better now,