This feeding boundaries and night weaning toolkit is for responsive parents who want some information about limit-setting or weaning. In this guide, I aim to give you the information you need about limit-setting and night weaning for both bottle and breastfeeding. I will also share some practical tips, lessons from experience and suggestions for why, how and when to make changes.
I’ll cover:
- Why and how you might want to make changes
- Realistic expectations about night waking and feeding
- How night feeding limiting or weaning makes parents feel
- Age appropriate boundaries with feeding
- Limits in the day and night
- Support for breastfeeding limits
- Support for bottle feeding limits
- How to go about setting limits
- How to maintain responsiveness while setting limits or weaning
As with all my guides, the focus is on making gentle, sustainable changes that are respectful of your child’s age, stage and emotional maturity and never compromise the close, loving bond you have worked so hard to build with your child. While many parents are keen to make changes to their child’s nighttime sleep, you will never feel like you have to do anything that makes you feel uncomfortable.