Need to wean 2 year old -help!

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I was going to wait until she was ready but I can't night wean her despite trying constantly since she was one. I am exhausted. I need to sleep.

I have no idea how to do this. She is very clingy. Screams her head off if I refuse. Ds was so easy compared to this, I cut down really gently but it's not working with dd.

Suggestions please, am desperate!

Can anyone else deal with her overnight for a few nights? I found ds3 was fine settling for others, but would only settle for me if I bf him.

Dh works away but we did try this over Christmas but she was hysterical, gave up after ten days as she was getting worse not better. Stubborn monkey.

Do you co-sleep?

She comes through half way through the night and stays in with me.

I have just very successfully (and painlessly) night-weaned ds (23 months) using Jay Gordon's method. It's designed for co-sleepers, and it worked really well. Have you tried it?

drjaygordon.com/attachment/sleeppattern.html

Try again:

drjaygordon.com/attachment/sleeppattern.html

We used a variation on the Dr Jay Gordon method with DS1, worked very well too, highly recommend.

Thanks will check it out!

Hope it works out for you. For us the first night was the worst, and it really did get easier and easier as we went along. I was quite stunned at how quickly ds got the idea and accepted it. (Previously, he was waking hourly to feed.)

We still co-sleep, and still breastfeed during the day. He still wakes up once a night, but either just goes straight back to sleep as soon as I stroke him, or has a few sips of water and goes to sleep. He's never awake for more than about two minutes, and only once a night.