Help! Feeding to sleep - how do I wean my boob addict 1 year old?

[NinaFeath]

My 1 year old needs the boob to go sleep... I have to wait until she's asleep and then remove her from the boob, otherwise she'll be there for hours! Or if I put her down to early she kicks off.

I want to stop breast feeding but how on earth do I get her to sleep without the boob? Anyone had the same problem? My husband can rock her to sleep but she won't let me.

From the early days I tried to teach her how to self settle but she goes ballistic when I put her in the cot awake so I kept resorting to the easiest option which is feeding to sleep.

My third son was the same. I often reflect that he would have breastfed till he was five if I’d let him.

I basically took a week off work in order to wean him off the boob and get him sleeping in his own bed, as we were co-sleeping and he would just use me a dummy all night keeping me up. He was 14 months old.

He was only having one other feed first thing in the morning, and I literally put him in his cot in his room did bedtime routine and left the room. I did rapid return - so left him to cry for a minute then went back in to shush, then for two minutes, then four etc. He screamed bloody murder the first night and finally dropped off around 11 (and didn’t wake again); second night he cried and fell asleep by 9; third night he just laid down and went to sleep and slept through. Has been a dream ever since. He’s ten now; when this question comes up I always ask him if he remembers this time and he gives me a looks and says no.

Honestly for me it was short term pain, long term gain. Yours might take a few more days but perseverance is key really.

I did exactly the same with the same result.
I'm planning on full weaning from the breast soon, wish me luck!

well when bottle feeding mine i would give her a comforter to stroke.So over time she would associate the comfort of feeding with the comforter .So i was able to to get her to sleep with t he comforter maybe worth a try

I had some problem many years ago. I just made sure I wasn't around at bedtime for a few days in a row and left DP to it. However, DD was nearly 2. Also it was a long time ago, so I have forgotten the details.

I did this when DS1 was 13 months old (total bottle & dummy refuser). DH took over bedtime for a week with the exact same routine except water instead of milk. I think the first few nights were a bit rough (I went out so I wasn't tempted to jump in) but DS settled to it by the end of the week. Obviously that only works if you have someone else to fill that gap for a week though!