14m old DD - won't sleep, feeds all night, things have to change!

[MrsMcJnr]

I need any advice you can give me on how to wean my DD off the breast. She is 14m and we had got to the stage that she was only feeding in the mornings, at bedtime and then all through the night but we are on holiday at the mo and the changes have led to her wanting to be fed all the time. We go home on Tues and I really need to break this cycle. I need some sleep!

Hello MrsMc :) I am going through this at the moment with dropping night feeds (I have been working PT in the day so DD who is same age is used to going all day without bf). If I am not at work and DD asks for 'titty' I say no they are sleeping you can have 'bot bot' which is her word for milk. You can get DP/DH to offer plain water/cows milk in the day or if she wakes in the night, you will get screaming and complaining at first, but if you stand firm she will eventually give up and take it. It took us three days now DD wakes twice, she will pat and shhh to sleep at the first waking then take a bottle of cows milk at the second. You can go straight to cup if you wish, but as I need her to stop waking every two hours at night for when I go to work FT in two weeks it was just easier to go with bottle as she will take it without waking. Hope this helps.

Oh my, am in almost exactly the same situation with dd2, except she's 16 months old. She had just gone her first ever full night before we went on holiday a couple of weeks ago, but now we're right back to square one! What worked the first time, as all sheep says, was dh going in to settle her instead of me, cos all she wants is the boob if I'm there. We also went without giving her anything to drink, suspect she would have just went from crying for the boob to crying for a bottle! We had also moved her from sharing a room with us to sharing a room with her sister, which seemed to work too, she seemed much less disturbed altogether. It only took a week of hell to get to this stage the first time, so I'm hoping she'll soon be back to where we were!

Hey Allsheep DD doesn't like cows milk and has never had a bottle and I'm reluctant to offer one now but I hear where you are coming from. DH is really no help, he says he'll get up but never will
Esme - interesting about the room sharing, I keep thinking about putting her in with DS (she is on her own at the mo) but am worried she'll disturb him. Last week she slept through for 3 nights for the first time but we too are back to worse than before!

Well, DD2 can really howl , but dd1 never seems to be woken by it. Thought she was going to go through the night last night, but dd1 woke up to go to the loo, and woke her up...an hour later we got back to bed. Tis a nightmare!

hey Mrs, my LO is 17 mths and still BFs (4 times a day). But we went on holiday at 14 months and she fed LOADS. I think it was just being out of her normal routine, feeding was a comfort. When we got home it was easy to slip back into the normal routine without thinking about it.