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14 months - how to stop bfing??

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ladybirdsinmyeyes · 23/11/2011 10:08

My DD is 14 months and for one thing feeding has been painful since she got her razors teeth (which was AGES ago and not the reason I'm stopping but I have had enough) but also she needs me to be there from before bedtime when she's getting tired, through bedtime to feed her and then in the house for her wake ups, one or two before my bedtime. I feed her when she wakes as they are at regular intervals, not every ten mins, two hourly or so. And this is all I have ever done with her to get her to settle, as for my DS we had a nightmare of constantly in and out to settle in the night, rocking, dummy attatchment. I was getting so little sleep that I found this simpler, although I am now looking for my escape route!! What can I do to change our routine and get her to at least drop some of these? I'm worried because she won't understand why I'm trying to change a good thing (except for my nipples and social life), I haven't needed to leave her crying at nighttime. She doesn't have a dummy.

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ladybirdsinmyeyes · 23/11/2011 11:23

Any advice?? It's a nighttime issue for sure - she's not really bothered in the day and will nap in the pushchair, so obviously it is an association that I have used to get some sleep myself. She still sleeps in a cot in our room and at the 2-ish and 4-ish wake-ups will often need to lie next to me in bed to go back to sleep as well as have the feed - but if I just lay her down (without feeding) she's furious.

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Graciescotland · 23/11/2011 11:27

No advice but I'm in the same boat with my 15 mo so I'll watch with interest.

molejazz · 23/11/2011 23:01

Seems like a sleep issue rather than a bf one?

I thought my DS needed feeding every time he woke up until I tried rocking him. At 14mo he didn't usually fall asleep feeding anymore anyway... so you might find the ending bf doesn't improve the sleeping IYKWIM?

Have you heard of Pantley's No Cry Sleep Solution for tips on breaking sleep associations? (it's a book).

Maybe take this over to the sleep threads?

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