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Stopping breast feeding

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Mondaybaby · 17/11/2011 10:00

My dd is 14.5 months. We co sleep for much of the night although she always starts off in her cot. As soon as she gets into bed with me she wants to latch on and stay like that for the rest of the night. She rarely unlatches herself and rarely stays asleep if I unlatch her. She is not feeding but just latched on for comfort. This has been getting worse recently and I am at my wits end with exhaustion. I don't want to stop bf her yet, I had hoped to go on to 18 months or 2 years. But I am starting to think that the only way that her sleep and my sleep will improove is if I stop allowing her to latch on. I have tried to refuse her but she becomes hysterical and so so distressed. She is like a different baby in the night as she is so happy and relaxed in the day. I don't want to stop bf her under these circumstances, it seems like a very sad reason to stop but maybe my idylic idea of her self weaning or starting to sleep through the night will never happen. I don't know weather to carry on as I am and just accept the lack of sleep, the uncomfortable positions, the knawing at my boobs all night or say enough is enough and make her sad.

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MigGril · 17/11/2011 12:42

I can garantie you one thing it will pass and she will learn to not need you so much at night as she get's older.

The next thing you have to decided is do you really want to stop now or not. You could try just night weaning and there is some useful inof hear www.kellymom.com/bf/weaning/weaning-night.html on this one.

But I will tell you this it is very comman for toddlers to still wake at night something in the order of ~25% still wake every night and another ~25% still wake some of the time.

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