Only when a mother to know, get up in the middle of the night fluffy head to feed the baby how bitter and tired, no personal experience simply can not imagine! Many mothers do not sleep well because of the night milk, night milk daytime work, physical health, emotional impact. Frequent night milk will also lead to baby sleep deprivation, adequate sleep, benefits, frequent night waking, the baby’s growth and development, neurological development are affected, appetite, mood, the overall state is not good. Therefore, the night milk, when break is broken! When exactly is the most appropriate time to wean your baby from nighttime milk? 6 months, 8 months? Or 10 months? In this regard, moms need to understand the concept that quitting night feeding is a process, from the time you reduce the number of night feedings for your baby, it already belongs to the category of quitting night feeding. When your baby shows the following signals, you can gradually reduce the number of night feedings: 1, your baby’s sleep pattern has been formed, the duration of continuous sleep at night is extended; 2, the amount of milk for each meal is gradually increasing, and during the day, you can eat most of the milk required for the day; 3, you begin to add complementary foods, complementary foods are becoming more and more diversified. In addition, if the baby sleeps continuously for 5-7 hours at night and wakes up at 4 or 5 o’clock in the morning to drink milk, this milk is not night milk. How to wean the baby from night milk? 1, to feed before bedtime Whether breastfeeding babies or formula milk babies, this milk before bedtime is very important, the milk and sleep of these two things as far as possible to separate, so that the baby seriously eat full, and then sleep peacefully! Some babies are accustomed to eating and sleeping, the result is not enough to eat, sleep not long! 2, adjust the feeding time Gradually adjust the baby feeding time, each advance and delay in half an hour is appropriate. For example: gradually 3-4 am milk delayed to 4-5 am. And then the night 11 o’clock milk gradually advance in about 10 o’clock, and so on. 3, dilution method to reduce the amount of milk By way of reducing the concentration of milk in the bottle, so that the baby feels that it is not worth waking up in order to drink a meal of night milk as light as white water, this method is more suitable for bottle-fed babies. If the bottle is already completely white water, but the baby still drinks it with gusto, parents need to pay attention to whether the humidity in the bedroom is too low. Consider using a humidifier. Is the baby using the bottle as a soother? If yes, please cancel this bottle feeding directly. There are requirements on the number of times your baby originally breastfeeds at night. If your baby breastfeeds frequently at night, it will be easy for him/her to not be able to hold on to the bottle. babies under 6 months of age should not be diluted with water. 4, change caregivers If breastfeeding, changing caregivers is a more effective method, suitable for babies over 1 year old. During the baby’s milk addiction, it is best not to let the baby see the mom! Seeing the mother will give the baby a kind of psychological suggestion, which will make the baby more anxious! If you can’t change the caregiver, the mother must wear a tight cover before going to bed, so that the baby can not easily lift the mother’s clothes to help themselves to the night milk. Always have the confidence of success at one time. Hesitation, compromise and repetition on the part of parents will, on the contrary, overwhelm the baby and increase unnecessary crying. Be gentle and take a firm stand. Without milk to drink, you will definitely cry, but parents’ emotions must not be affected by the baby’s crying. Never reprimand your baby, don’t get angry, and don’t be mean. These wrong practices will make it difficult for the baby to break the night milk 1, at night when the baby cries to give breastfeeding, always to milk to appease him, making the baby on the night milk to produce a stronger dependence. 2, at night the baby has to suck on the milk in order to coax to sleep, for the future to wean the night milk to bring more obstacles. 3, constantly nagging the baby or even slightly reprimanded, “no more milk at night,” so that the baby feels indifferent, panic and anxiety. Warm tips: Many parents will worry, if the baby quit the night milk, whether it will be malnutrition. In fact, this situation rarely occurs as long as the baby in the daytime intake of sufficient nutrients, even if you do not eat the night milk, there will not be malnutrition problems.