Is anyone else still breastfeeding their 12 month+ dc through the night?

[bewareofthedog]

Hi all. Dd is 17 months old. We co-sleep and she still feeds through the night. I've tried other ways to get her to sleep but to be honest bf is the easiest way. I don't really mind as such as I know she won't be doing it forever; I suppose I'm just looking for a bit of reassurance.

I have a ds who's 4 and I know he fed through the night until he was quite old but typically I can't remember how old he was when he stopped. I know it involved a bit of crying when we were weaning him off the nighttime feeds which is more difficult to do with dd as it disturbs ds, so I'm hoping that she'll get there in the end herself.

Yep,still feeding 23mo through the night sigh
Normally only once, but at the moment 2-3 times because he has a cold,poor love.
I am considering night weaning, problem is DH would have to go into him,and as DH works full time and has a long commute I am reluctant to ask him as he really should be getting a good night's sleep during the week.

Fingers crossed he will be getting a new job which means he'll be getting 2 mo's garden leave - then the night weaning will begin! Otherwise I will have to do it!! Probably in the new year.

I fed ds through the night untill he was 2, then I fell pregnant with dd and had really really sore nipples. So we let him help his dad put up a big boys bed in his own room and just stopped feeding him. We had a few days of crying but it wasn't as bad as I thought.

I gave up at 18m when it became clear that was why ttc dc2 wasn't working - this article by Jay Gordon was hugely helpful and is worth a look if you ever want ideas on how to stop without traumatising dd (or yourself).

There's always something isn't there? Dd is a late teether, she only has about 7 teeth at the moment and is constantly chewing, so I'm reluctant to take that comfort away from her. But if it's not that it's some virus or another that she's picked up at nursery.

I would also like to do it when dh is here, but he works shifts and works away so it's not that easy for us either.

Here's to us both having some kind of success in the new year!

Thanks for that link Mrs B; it looks familiar, I think I had sight of it when I was nightweaning ds. I also followed the principles of the No Cry Sleep Solution.

I think it will be easier once she's got a bed of her own, so we'll look into getting that in the next couple of months.

Like I said, we've been through it all once before, but you really do forget these things, even though it feels like the focus of your life for so long! Hopefully this time next year feeding through the night will be a distant memory!

It's reassuring to know we're not alone. It feels that way sometimes.