Any advice on weaning 14mth off breast feeding?

[LadyRainicorn]

Dd2 is 14mths and still breastfeeding. I work full time and she feeds when I come home and a multitude of times in the night. We half Co sleep but my back hips and knees are staying to kill me when I'm stuck in one position too long, plus she's got the wiggle on a lot of the time and kicks us etc. I think we disturb each other and would probably sleep better apart. ... If only she didn't have a tantrum at not getting boob when she wants it, even in the middle of the night.

Her eating in general is great- much better than dd1 in fact and she'll eat an absolute ton of food at mealtimes and between. I also want to wear a normal bra and not be a leaky cheesy sleep deprived mess anymore so I thought I'd wean her off me but I'm a bit stumped at what approach to go for. I did a graduated thing with dd1 at about the same age but I was home all day for that and I think some of the feeding (not all cos she's a greedy bugger) is more to do with being back withmummy than food.

Any suggestions gratefully received

At that age I moved dd to her own room and she did wake less, although I still had to feed her a couple of times a night, the sleep in between was much better for me.

Thought you might like this thread too, I've put some links on you might find useful

Thank you I'll have a read of the thread. Unfortunately we don't have space right now to put her in her own room.

I think she'd happily feed for a long time yet. It's me with the problem, nursing in bed is not comfortable and leaves me on pain for the rest of the day. We're also investigating a possible allergy to ibuprofen - she had a hive like rash the last time she had any and the last few times I've had some the morning after dd2 had disgusting runny poo. I'm in frequent pain and I'm already not taking the best medication I've had (tramadol) because it had a similar effect. I don't know if I could cope without ibuprofen long term.

Most of the better sites seem to be advocating night weaning but during the week dd2 pretty much only feeds at night

Shame you haven't got the room, and sorry you can't take your medication too, it sounds tough.

Agree that lots of sites advocate night weaning but I didn't do it until we stopped bfing altogether. Are you able to move her further away from you in your room?

Thanks for the sympathy, I know lots have it worse and I have managed to bf up till now so I guess I'm just trying to psych myself up for an extremely unpleasant weaning week.

And hoping there was some magic trick, never hurts to try does it?

I know how you feel -and mine's only 8 months! With dc1 I followed a night weaning plan by Dr Jay Gordon. Just Google 'nightweaning dr jay gordon'. (Sorry, can't link as am on phone). This did work and made for much easier nights without having to go cold turkey and give up bf altogether.

Good luck.