The little, slow weight gaining, reluctant to feed baby I used to have has turned into a 3 meals a day + frequently breastfeeding one year old (on Friday!). She's never been a good sleeper, not since 4 months anyway, but nights have been getting harder and harder recently. She tends to wake every two hours after about 11pm and will insist on a feed. I've always been happy to feed her at night, particularly as she was so little and needed the nutrition. I'm sure she doesn't need it (nutritionally) now and actually, she rarely falls asleep feeding. It can still take up to an hour of sitting/ rocking after the feed before she falls asleep. And this is several times a night. DH can't settle her at night (fine during the evening with him, once it's past our bedtime only I will do!). She will not co-sleep, I would have loved her to. She just wants to play if we try and can be awake for hours.
I'm going back to work part-time soon and don't really know how I'll manage with nights like this. Does anyone have any suggestions? She's a really lovely baby in the daytime - bright, happy, smiley, but at night is quite different! She cried so much in DH's arms last night that she was sick and it was only for a couple of minutes. Leaving her to cry is not an option for us. But I suppose night weaning of any kind will involve crying. Oh, I'm confused and probably not making much sense.