Is it ok to go cold turkey???

[Littlepeaa]

Hi. Just looking for some general advice and tips on going cold turkey with my 15 month old is an absolute milk lover. We co sleep, and she basically wakes up 6+ times a night and I am so exhausted.
she’s always has refused the bottle so it’s really just down to me at night.
when my partner does try to sooth her back to sleep, instead of me breastfeeding, she would continuously screams and screams like an absolute crazy baby so I just give in.

(I’ve literally never seen such a hysterical baby- but maybe that’s normal?!?! It’s absolutely frightening. Both of us are like shook! )

But anyways we are wits end trying to generally reducing feeding, with zero progress made.

I think just going cold turkey is the only way.
is that ok??

Going cold turkey whilst co-sleeping will be very tricky.
You need to break the feed to sleep/feed = sleep association which will be easier then cold turkey but your partner needs to start the process including first few night wakes and resettles ideally in their own room.
We found the Lucy Wolfe book handy. I switched from feeding to sleep to feed before bath and my husband would do bedtime. He sent me for a walk first few days. He would deal with any wake ups til around the 4 hour mark where I would give a feed then hand back to my husband.
Do it at a time where your both on board, baby is well and your partner doesn't have work the next day.

I did it and it was the best thing we did. When he turned 1 year I had had enough - we coslept and he was waking every 1.5-2 hours to feed. No bottles ever just me. I did cold turkey, and just cuddled and soothed him when he cried. I even wore a tight sports bra to bed so I couldn’t give in easily in the night!! It took a few nights and now 2 months later he sleeps through in his own cot, it really has felt like a miracle. You won’t damage your baby by stopping breastfeeding suddenly at this age, as long as you’re there giving other comfort.

edit to add: I still fed to sleep for the initial bedtime for a month but stopped all night time breastfeeds. Then when he had that sorted after a couple weeks, I stopped feeding to sleep for bedtime. And then I think it was another week or so he started sleeping reliably at night.

I did it- went back to work on night shifts. My husband had to deal with it but when I wasn't there our baby settled ok. Can you go out?

Of course you can go cold turkey if you want to but have you tried some gentle night weaning?