Breastfeeds diminishing during the day but still plenty at night...

[lizzieiscontented]

My DD is just over 11 months and I have noticed her day feeds are diminishing but she is still feeding a lot at night. We co-sleep. I am just wondering if anyone else has experienced this and if there is some way that I can encourage her to not feed so frequently during the night. She definitely does not seem to want it as much during the day so I thought she might naturally decrease her needs during the night too!

I don't reeally mind but it would be nice if my sleep wasn't as broken up at nights as it has been this past year, lol

TIA

[RiffRaffMama]

I can't explain why but my kids did the same - decreased during the day until their only breastfeeds were at night and ultimately just the one around 6am. Other than increasing the distance between the two of you at night so she can't smell the milk as strongly all I can suggest is to ride it out. It sounds like she may self-wean in the coming months. My kids did at 15 months.

[fludo]

Give more feeds, or longer feeds in the day, and don't allow unlimited access at night, if you really want to change this.

[chickaboo]

I'm in the same situation. DS doesn't want anything from me during the day but will drink 4-6 times a night from me. He is now 11 months, of age, I get a thrill if I get 2 hours of sleep straight!
We co-sleep (cot opens out to the bed so I just lean over and BF him. I know some of it is comfort feeding but I try the dummy first and after a small amount of time of crying I just give in to him. I think I will just have to give him time and one day, he will sleep for longer periods (i hope). It is hard when you are single parent and working (albeit part time) and getting to work takes 1 and half hours. Exhausting, but I wuv him soo much and as he will be my last I'm not stressing too much. Just would love a little more sleep!

[Lilahh]

My DS is demand feed in the night at 13 months and has no day feeds anymore from dropping them all. He has his first morning and before bed milk and then has 1-3 feeds (usually 2) overnight. So usually 4 in 24 hours. He was having 4-5 feeds through the night till I finally moved him to his own room at 10.5 months. Since then he has been sleeping one 5-8hr stretch each night which was unheard of before we stopped cosleeping.

Not saying its for everyone, but moving him to his own room definitely helped.

[Thermolicious]

Has she started a new developmental milestone? sometimes they are too distracted for the first few days/weeks of a new thing to feed so they make up for it at night, DS2 has always done this but it always goes back to normal (that is feeding a lot during the day and night lol).