Night weaning
Also called night wean, night-wean, nightwean, night weaned, nightweaned, night weaners
Night weaning means stopping a baby's feeds during the night while daytime feeds carry on. Parents use it as a verb too, as in we're night weaning or she night weaned herself.
How it's said
Night weaning is a workable alternative for many moms...
DD suddenly night weaned herself at 11 months.
Any night weaners out there to offer support?
Who says it
Where it came from
Wean comes from the Old English wenian, to accustom, and came to mean taking a child off breast milk. Night weaning narrows it to the night. Lactation consultants at KellyMom write that breastfeeding is not an all-or-nothing process and offer night weaning as a middle way.
Pediatrician Jay Gordon wrote a plan for it, aimed at babies past their first year who sleep in the family bed. He offered it as a gentler alternative to Ferber and Weissbluth, and the post became his most popular.