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To ask for help how you reduced breastfeeding if baby feeds for comfort before naps and bedtime?

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Pastaalldaylong · 09/07/2020 19:51

Baby is 10 months. Never taken a bottle. Does take a very small amount of milk (25-100ml) now from sippy cup but then still always needs a breastfeed before naps or bedtime to wind down.
Occasionally rocking works but more often ends in her arching her back and not settling down until I BF. I'm back to work soon and am starting to worry about how she will nap during the day as she's only ever breastfed to calm down for it.

She still wakes up 2-3 times a night for a feed and I'm worried that if she doesn't nap well during the day then nights will get even worse. Any practical steps to reducing feeds to just morning and evening? Thanks

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Laserbird16 · 10/07/2020 07:24

In my experience of 2 children, it is very hard as the source of milk to comfort your child to sleep when the comfort they want is milk!

I imagine it must be like being on a diet and someone holding two amazing chocolate cakes is telling you no you can't have any when you're starving.

I just got DH to put the eldest to bed, it took longer but she managed it. A great parenting mantra for me is many things are solved with time. Eventually they will wean and sometimes it is a blessing to have BF as a tool when they're sick, teething, hurt etc

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