I want to wean my nearly 3 yr old off the breast

[puffylovett]

I cannot cope anymore with the 1-3 hourly wakings and the bashing me on the head till he gets milk

He would be at me all day if he could. It's driving me mad! He's not quite as bad in the day as he used to be. But we still had a scene in the park yesterday

How do I do it!!!

He's allergic to cows milk btw and won't take any alternatives.

I gave DD2 a non spill cup of very weak sugar free squash to take to bed.

Water would have been wiser, aged 11 she still won't drink water and has squash.

She loved BFing and sort of instinctively developed BF manners.

She learnt not to bite.
Got the idea of drinking her squash and not waking Mum.
And weirdest of all knew big girls didn't feed in public without being told.

could you express for him?? still the same goodness etc but may be easier to wean him as he wont be close to you when having it - make sure you still have cuddle time etc without bf.

We've had several nights of lOnger sleep (yay!) but I'm not convinced its due to sleep training. He's been sooooo grumpy and tantrummy, had one or two temps (no other symptoms really) and today complained his legs hurt.

So I think the treats / reverse psychology has definitely sunk in as we talk about it lots, but he's still feeding stacks (although occasionally not to sleep)...

Can't express as my pump broke :(

Glad you're making progress op. here we've had several nights of ds going to sleep without milk and last night actually a seven hour stretch (still doing early mornings as it was exhausting fighting about it at that time!). The secret- singing before sleeping so when he's too tired to listen to stories and wants to suck he gets distracted, joins in (so using mouth and can't suck) eventually falls asleep. I have to say that feeding was a lot easier but it's working at the moment...

My dd is the same. At 23 months she's still waking and hitting me for milk. Her brother was the same but we managed to wean him at the same age as I was pregnant and it started to hurt. The difference was he was happy going with dh and we used to pump in lots of squeezey fruit pouches every night and would allow dh to cuddle him etc.

Dd won't. I'm distraught. I've been back at work since she was 6 months old and we have no family near by. I'm snapping at everyone. I'm tired.