My little boy is 10 months and has associated boob to sleep for months now and the association is incredibly strong. To cut a long story short, he is now waking ridiculously frequently throughout the night out of habit for boob, as much as hourly so I'm not sleeping. The last 4 days I've started to not feed him to sleep for every nap and he's successfully gone to sleep without boob a few times for me and my mum (by rocking/cuddling/pram) but it does take a while. He co sleeps and I don't want to change this and stop the nursing to sleep as the same time (he cries everytime he's put in a cot). Last night I decided to start tackling the waking for boob at night and he woke 4 times, 1 of which I fed him back to sleep at 2am, the others I shushed and kissed/stroke/sang. 2 of these went quite smooth and it took 10 mins or so of crying, but one took an hour of on and off crying, I felt terrible but figured giving him a boob at the end would undo all the work. My question is, where do I go from here? Do i go cold turkey and stop night feeds all together? What about feeding to sleep for naps alone, only sometimes? I can't rock him for every nap as hes getting heavy. I gave him some water in the night too which he drank on one of his wakes. Can I continue to feed him to sleep at bedtime but then not when he wakes during the night? Some advice please. Thank you
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