Night weaning does not mean an end to night waking and should therefore not be something parents feel they ‘need’ to do to get their child sleeping ‘better’. It’s certainly not something you need to do simply because a health professional tells you too.

There’s plenty you can do to make the transition to day care easier on everyone, no “habit” breaking necessary. In fact we encourage you to keep feeding to sleep as a tool in your toolbox, it will make nighttime during this transition period so much easier.

If your baby is breastfed, then yes, they really could be hungry every time. Why? Because human milk is a quickly digested food source. But even if they aren’t it is that frequent feeding overnight that will enable your supply to keep up with a growth spurt, or will help them to settle to sleep.