My baby is seven months old and has to eat night milk twice at night. I want to wean him off night milk, but I don’t know if this is the right time. How to wean him from night milk? What do I need to pay attention to? What are the circumstances for weaning? Parents need to make judgments based on their own situation, their baby’s situation, and their baby’s growth and development to scientifically and correctly wean their baby from night milk. The first situation: the baby eats milk for the sake of appeasement. If the baby wakes up at night and eats very little milk, less than the amount during the day, or goes back to sleep after being soothed, it means that night milk is a psychological need for the baby, and parents can try to wean the baby from night milk at this point in time. The second situation: it really bothers the mother’s sleep. Many mothers do not sleep well because of night milk, night milk at night and work during the day, and their health is suboptimal and their emotions are affected. If you feel that night milk is seriously affecting your life, you can start to wean your baby from night milk. How to scientifically and correctly wean your baby from night milk? If your baby drinks breast milk, it is difficult to wean your baby from night milk. At this time, in addition to solving the problem of feeding your baby, there is also a great need to soothe your baby. If your baby is drinking formula, parents need to determine whether your baby’s need for night milk is psychological or habitual. If you decide to wean your baby from night milk, you can start by gradually diluting the milk concentration and slowly change from night feedings to night feedings with water until your baby is completely weaned from night milk. When choosing a weaning method, you need to consider your baby’s current nighttime milking frequency and your baby’s personality traits. For babies who are gentle and receptive to change, you can try multiple methods at the same time, such as reducing the frequency of nighttime feeds and reducing the amount (single feed) at the same time. For babies who are stubborn and resistant to change, the pace of adjusting nighttime milk needs to be more moderate, for example, for babies who are breastfeeding, it is recommended to extend the nighttime milk interval, also starting from 15 minutes and 20 minutes and slowly lengthening it. What do mothers and babies pay attention to before and during the night milk weaning period? 1. When a child is about 2-3 months old, he or she will be able to stay awake at night for 5-6 hours without breastfeeding. Mastering this knowledge will reduce the number of times a mother wakes up at night to feed her baby, and as long as the baby does not wake up during the night, do not wake him up for night milk. Frequent night milk will not only reduce the sleep quality of adults and children, but also sow the hidden danger of baby getting tooth decay. 2, breastfeeding baby, the mother can observe and record the baby night milk pattern, consciously extend the interval of each night milk, slowly let the baby get used to, and gradually lengthen the interval. You can start with 30 minutes, then adjust to 1 hour, and finally to dawn. This situation requires more patience and persistence from parents, and it takes a relatively long time, and needs to be combined with other methods of weaning to achieve the effect of completely eliminating night milk. For bottle-fed babies, parents should first record the amount of night milk each time and then reduce the amount by 30 ml each night. If the total amount of milk for the whole night is 30-60 ml, parents can consider completely eliminating night milk for one or two times. For breastfed babies, parents should first record the duration of each nighttime feeding. If it is 20 minutes, consider reducing it to 15 minutes in sequence. Over the next few days, shorten the time by 3 to 5 minutes per day until it is completely eliminated. 4. For babies over 1 week old, you can eliminate night feeds directly, without giving a single bite. If the mother and baby are sleeping together and breastfeeding, be sure to wear a tight cover before going to bed to avoid letting the baby easily lift the mother’s clothes to help herself to night milk. Be sure to have the confidence to succeed once. Parents’ hesitation, compromise and repetition will instead overwhelm the baby and increase unnecessary crying. The mother should be gentle and firm in her stance. No milk to drink will definitely cry, but the parents’ emotions must not be affected by the baby’s crying, never reprimand the baby, don’t get angry, don’t be mean, as long as you hold on to the first night, everyone has succeeded a big part, the next few days the child will still be crying situation, the mother should hold on, quit the night milk will be successful to quit the night milk. 5. If your baby won’t stop crying, the first thing to adjust is the parents’ expectation – weaning from night milk is not an easy task and requires a lot of patience and persistence, in addition, review your own program – whether the method used takes into account the frequency of night milking and the baby’s The last point is also the most difficult, the whole family to maintain a united front, to eliminate the teammates who shake the army. Many babies still wake up at regular intervals even if they don’t eat milk at night, because they have formed a biological clock. After weaning, if your baby wakes up regularly only once a night, you can “wake up early and go back to sleep” – by turning your baby over in advance of the habitual night waking point and slightly waking him up, then let him go back to sleep. Babies who have multiple scheduled wakings need to change the way parents handle their babies’ night wakings. Try to lull them to sleep by patting them to sleep. At this time, if you use cuddling, the dependence on night waking will shift from milk sleeping to cuddling, another pitfall. Regardless of which method, it is not something that can be changed overnight. In addition to fully understanding your baby to choose a better way, what is needed is persistence. There are times when success is just around the corner, but giving up on persistence is a foregone conclusion. For moms, quitting nighttime breastfeeding is really a mental and physical battle, and they need a teammate (husband can also be, and friends can also motivate each other) who can encourage and support them together to get through the difficult times.