Stopping at 16 months - tips needed

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part of me could BF longer, but the nights are now getting too much. DD2 has got much better at sleeping but the last 3 nights have been hell. Last night we hardly slept at all - she just wanted to be with me and on boob all night. I'm too tired to function properly at work.

I have a few days holiday coming up and think it's time to stop over these days off - or else we'll get right back into more feeding being together all day. I barely remember what I did with DD1 beyond wearing a tight high neck tshirt to bed. And now I'm too tired to think properly. Any tips? We are down to morning, bedtime and evening feeds. Sometimes day feed in the weekends, though these are becoming less frequent.

I feel sad, but I think the time is right.

I stopped at 15 months by moving him into his own cot and kept a very early morning bf for a few weeks when he called early.
The cot moving was the hard part. A few nights of patting and putting him back down which was hard on us but by about night 3 it seemed to work and he woke up less.
He still got one bf on waking when it was bright.
Then I stopped offering that bf and he naturally stopped looking for it. It was very gradual and, in my mind, kind, as he was never denied the bf, and I wasn't tempting him with smells by lying next to him.
During the day is different. The only thing I think of is to distract her if she asks. I don't think necessarily offering another drink is the right thing to do and could frustrate her as its not always an alternative drink she wants. Its the comfort and cuddles.

I work FT so the days are only an issue in the weekends. She has been in her own cot for a while, though usually gets in with me at some point in the night. I thought it would gradually taper off, but she when she wakes she is. V demanding re having a feed. We have lots of cuddles but she totally tantrums if she can't have a feed.