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Bigmouthstrikesagain · 10/09/2010 22:32

I started this thread about 2 1/2 years ago. Update dd1 did stop breastfeeding before dd2 arrived but only about 8 weeks before!

Now I am getting the same issue with dd2 - but this time I am not pregnant (thank goodness). DD2, who is honestly my most sweet natured child generally, is becoming very insistent and belligerent around feeding. She refuses other drinks (says no and pokes at my breast to indicate her preference), and as we are co-sleeping she has taken to waking for feeds in the early hours which she had dropped previously.

I want to move her into her own bed but don't want to spend half the night in their with her as she shouts for a feed, and I don't know how to get her to drop this nightfeeding without badly disrupting dh and my precious sleeping hours. Now I have to get 2 children to school in the morning I need to be able to function and dh needs to get up early for a long commute, so he would not thank me.

If dd2 moves into her own bed she will be sharing with her sister anyway so I would be disturbing dd1 as well.

I could continue as is for longer but she needs to stop being rough and biting me so I have to hone my disciplining moderately while half asleep and grumpy skills. Maybe I am less tolerant after feeding for so many years...

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Bigmouthstrikesagain · 10/09/2010 22:35

She will be sharing a room with dd1 not a bed btw!

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Ineedsomesleep · 11/09/2010 08:55

Think you have just got to accept that if you stop then the others are going to be woken at night, for a chort time anyway.

How old is DD2?

Bigmouthstrikesagain · 11/09/2010 15:59

dd2 is now 23 months - I wouldn't mind so much but dd1 has just started school and she is finding that tiring enough!

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Ineedsomesleep · 11/09/2010 17:23

Could you wait till half-term? Failing that start on a Thursday so that she is only tired on the Friday, assuming that it will all be over by the start of the next week.

MumNWLondon · 11/09/2010 23:10

How about moving DD1 temporarily to living room until DD2 happy not to scream.

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