What is the key to getting my baby to nurse less at night?

What is the key to getting my baby to nurse less at night?

Gary Feldman (Medical Director, Stramski Disorders Center, Miller Children's Hospital ) gives expert video advice on: Should I nurse my baby whenever he cries at night?; How do I know if my baby is waking up at night because he's hungry?; Should I put my baby on a nursing schedule to help him sleep at night? and more...

To get your baby used to feeding less frequently at night, you would start in the daytime. You'd begin to space out their feeds. When we talk about feed, we are really talking about nursing or bottle feeds, because as they get older, to say about four or five months of age, you start introducing solid feeds anyway. So, that's going to give them more endurance between feed times. It's not going to be necessary for you to nurse them or bottle feed them. That's going to stretch them, if you like, in the day and that stretching between feeds should work for night time as well, meaning they will nurse less then, too.