nighttime nursing

This won't be easy but you can do it. Your e-mail doesn't say where she starts sleeping at night - your bed, her crib? Anyway, she needs to start in her crib still awake - not nursed/rocked, etc to sleep. Unless she's on a growth spurt, I think a nine-month-old should be able to sleep through the night. Try nursing her up as much as possible before bedtime and, some moms may disagree here, but I always topped my boys off with an ounce or two or formula just to make sure they were really full.
If you've got the going to bed in the crib issue and the nursing several times at night issue, don't try to tackle both at once. deal with the crib first.
GOod luck

Susie is a discussion leader in the east valley for arizonamoms.com. She has two sons, ages 7 and 3.

We had a very similar issue with our daughter when she was 10 months old. The first thing we did was get her to sleep in her crib, which was definitely the hardest part. We had been trying to rock her to sleep and it turned out that the best thing we could do for her was to place her in her crib when she was still awake although sleepy. Our pediatrician told us to let her cry and then to go in and reassure her every 5-10 minutes and settle her back down. It was so difficult doing this for a couple of nights, but it was amazing about three nights into it, she starting sleeping in her crib and she slept for much longer stretches of time.

Good luck and Hang in there!

JuneSlager is a discussion leader for arizonamoms.com, raising three children (ages 15, 14, & 11) in Northeast Phoenix.

I don't really have too much advice, but I can agree with the time-length it takes for them to get used to something new.
I read in the Babywise book I have that it takes an infant usually about 3 days/nights to form a new habit. And, I must say, it is pretty true-when my son was younger and we were trying to cut the middle of night feeding, it did take only about 3 nights before he was sleeping through that feeding.
Good luck!

I would say go with your gut - but the sooner you can train her to the crib the better. I am not certain how long it would take and every baby is so different anyhow.

My advice is to remain consistent and whatever you do - don't feel guilty. This is the first of many times you'll need to implement something that the child will not prefer - but is best for everyone nonetheless.

Not to mention safer. A friend of mine's husband rolled over on the baby in the bed in his sleep and when he woke up the baby was not alive. This is a true story.

Thanks you all! I am going to take the advice of putting her in her crib while she is still awake. That was my gut instinct anyways. I think it will be good for me and my husband too!