Most babies do not eat night milk after 6 months, and some babies do not eat night milk after they are out of the month. These are not criteria for evaluating baby’s growth, and each baby’s development is different. If a mother can respect her baby’s choice, the time between nighttime feedings is gradually extended from once every 3 hours to once every 5-6 hours for 2-3 months old babies. after 6 months, most babies do not eat milk for 7-8 hours at night and can take a long nap. So why do we need to wean from night milk? Here’s what you need to know about nighttime breastfeeding Why do babies still eat night milk after the age of half a year? There are two kinds of situations to develop the habit of night milking. 1, the mother wants her baby to eat more milk, grow better and faster, so she will wake her baby up regularly at night to eat milk, train her baby to become a night feeder and develop the habit of eating milk at night. 2.Feeding milk as a method of hypnosis. Babies fall asleep easily with milk, so whenever they wake up at night, the mother immediately gives milk. Even if the baby is not hungry, he can fall asleep with a few bites, so he will eat milk every 1-2 hours at night. A normal baby will wake up 8-9 times during the night. Because sleep is made up of sleep cycles, small babies sleep for about one hour per cycle and wake up briefly at the end of the sleep cycle. Once a baby gets into the habit of falling asleep with a nipple, he or she must wake up later to take a few sips of milk before falling asleep again. The result of both of these situations is that the infant sleeps less at night and the mother is very tired and even sleepless. The effect of sleep on the baby Adequate sleep is very important for the physical and intellectual development of the baby. Newborns sleep 16-20 hours a day. A 2-year-old child lives for a total of 24 months, 13 of which are spent in sleep and only 11 months of waking. Adequate sleep promotes the development and growth of brain functions and facilitates the storage of brain energy. It consolidates memory and restores strength. Insufficient sleep affects the development of children’s cognitive functions, impairs frontal cortical function, leads to changes in emotion and attention, and triggers deficits in language and abstract thinking functions. In addition, a child’s poor nighttime sleep has a significant impact on the entire family, causing sleep deprivation in the parents, triggering emotional stress, depressed mothers and strained relationships between husband and wife, which is detrimental to the development and growth of the infant. Will weaning from nighttime milk be nutritionally insufficient? Knowing the importance of sleep, mothers naturally understand the reason why they should not give their babies night milk. But will it be nutritional deficient if you don’t give your baby night milk? This is not a problem that mothers need to worry about, because children who eat less milk at night will definitely eat more during the day and will not affect the growth and development of their babies. However, there are a few babies with very low weight, some with birth weight less than 2.5 kg, with delayed growth in the womb and eating less after birth. Growth and development without super catch-up growth, this baby, each time during the day to eat very little milk, the night can eat night milk. However, the number of times is only 1-2, and they fall asleep soon after eating milk. Weaning from night milk is about forming good sleep habits! For babies who have already developed the habit of nighttime feeding, giving up nighttime milk makes babies feel “painful and uncomfortable to cry”. What should our new mothers and fathers do? A preventive approach should be taken. How to prevent it? We should also start with the law of infant sleep development. A common sleep problem in the newborn period is the reversal of day and night. It usually resolves in 3-4 weeks after birth. The best way is to give proper stimulation during the day, such as talking to your baby more often to encourage him to wake up, and to keep a low profile at night, not talking to your baby except for feeding and necessary diaper changes. If your baby does not want to sleep and wants to play with you, you should not get involved. But do not go more than 4 hours between feedings at night. This is because the baby needs nutrition for fast growth and also needs to stimulate the mother’s milk production. Most babies before 2-3 months do not self-soothe, they like the embrace of adults, family members can sleep better during the day holding, put to bed and wake up. In 2-3 months, you can hold your baby to sleep. You don’t have to worry about making your baby develop bad habits, after 3 months, it can’t be continued. At 3 months, your baby should develop the habit of falling asleep without the nipple. If your baby falls asleep while feeding, your mother should wake him up and put him back to sleep on his own in his crib when he wakes up. The goal is to separate the experience of eating and sleeping and to develop the experience of separating eating and sleeping. 6 rules to help your baby establish a sleep routine From 4-6 months old, you can start to develop good sleep habits by following these 6 rules to establish a sleep routine. 1. Teach your baby to fall asleep on his or her own. Mom carries your baby to his crib when he is awake, says you should sleep now, gives him a kiss and says goodbye. The child falls asleep quickly and when wakes up and sees that everything is fine, the child falls back to sleep and mom is not even awakened. 2, to adhere to the routine activities before going to sleep. 4 months to start to adhere to the daytime naps and nighttime sleep with a fixed routine, fixed time and crib, before bedtime there is a fixed “ritual”, conducive to the baby’s own sleep, such as bath and massage, and then and the baby to make out, snuggle and sing. A little older, read books, stories and finger plays. Don’t spend more than half an hour. Then tell your child that you are now going to sleep, put the awake child in bed and dim the lights. If you do this every day, your child will get used to it and learn to fall asleep on his or her own. 3. Go to bed early and get up late. Children can sleep better when they go to bed early, and “overworked” will not sleep longer. Usually go to sleep at 8:00 p.m. 4, 4-6 months do not sleep with a pacifier, do not hold, pat, rocking to sleep, do not use a comfort pacifier before bedtime. Because he already knows the environment before going to bed, if you use the above methods to do “crutches” when you fall asleep, the second half of the night at 3:00 or 5:00 when you wake up, you still need these “crutches” to fall back to sleep. 5, baby travel, sick or teething after the need to revisit the sleep routine. This will take a few days, and if you don’t remind your baby, he will maintain a disrupted sleep schedule. 6.Don’t treat your 4-month-old baby like a newborn. 4-month-old baby is capable of falling asleep on his own if you give him the opportunity to learn to do so. The exact method of transitioning to a better type of sleep is not exactly the same for each baby, but it is basically to give as little soothing as possible and spend more time letting your baby learn to fall asleep on his own. It’s important to develop habits that we believe our moms and dads can do.