Extended BFing advice please

[callmeovercautious]

DD is now 26M. She BFs morning and night and occasionally once in the day. I am, in alot of ways happy to continue.

However I feel it is getting in the way of DH and her bonding. She loves him I know but she is so clingy to me that sometimes she won't even give him a cuddle at bed time. He is a great Daddy and does lots with her, spends time alone with her and she has great fun with him etc.

I am considering encouraging her to drop bedtime feeds but I am at a loss as she takes over an hour to drop off if DH puts her to bed with a cup.

Any advice? I don't want to force her as we have always been a fairly baby led family until now but I feel we need to make a bit of a change.

weaned my dd recently at 28 mths. she now is more into daddy, goes to bed for him no probs, less clingy all round.

got him to put her to bed, whilst weaning, to break the association with me. although it took longer it has now improved greatly, two minutes, kiss, night night.

all the clingyness in my mind was definitely linked to the feeding.

i also think that on ocassions, children need a little push to move them onto the next step and that letting them lead all the time, is sometimes not always productive.

Clingness is more to do with the child's personality not how they get their milk. My 2.3 year old toddler is very independant, far too friendly with strangers, a daddy's girl and still breastfed pretty much on demand.

If daddy wants to do the bedtime bit, you could nurse DD downstairs and then daddy takes her upstairs to bed. We have done this since the arrival of 3 month old DS and it works very well for us.

Thanks everyone. Sorry I posted and ran but we went away Saturday am overnight.

Babieseverywhere - the BFing downstairs is a good idea, we will give that a go.

Also it appears she now has a stinking cold so perhaps she has been feeling rough hence the super clingyness It has definately been worse in the last week.