Sarah Vaughan wrote:
cjra wrote:

[...]
I am concerned about her lack
of food - nights when she doesn't eat much I always worry she'll wake
because she's starving, so think that nursing her will help that, but
it doesn't....

When I night-weaned Jamie, I gave him a bottle of milk instead so that I
could feel comfortable that I *wasn't* leaving him hungry by refusing to
nurse. As it turned out he was hardly taking any, which confirmed what
I'd felt to be the case, but it was good to know that for certain. If
it had turned out that he was taking a lot, I'd have done the old trick
of diluting it down on successive nights.

Which I've heard work *great* with a number of kids, but
totally backfired with mine. As soon as he figured out I was
diluting, he started refusing bottles of any sort, day or night!
However, I had also found out that he *was* eating a lot at that
late night feed. Eventually I just agreed to the late night
feeding and rescheduled it to suit me better, and then a few months
later he dropped it all together. Which, I guess, just goes to
show that there are lots of different potential reasons for the
same outward behavior, so we all have to go through this detective
work to figure out what the problem is and develop a solution
that works for our families.

Best wishes,
Ericka