Help my 3 yo stop BF...ideas please!

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I really would like to stop B/F my DS who is just turning 3. This is my preference, not due to pressure from anyone else etc etc. I am thoroughly fed up (excuse pun!) and want to sleep at night! He B/F to get to sleep and wakes up in the night and B/F to get back to sleep. My DD was similar but with her it was a case of having a conversation with her, explaining and stopping! My DS is about a mile behind in terms of speech and emotional maturity so a conversation isn't really a possibility. It will have to be cold turkey, (although I will explain anyway.) and I'm guessing a few sleepless nights of full on screaming. Has anyone else had to dissuade a reluctant toddler that playing with breasts is now a thing to look forward to perhaps in the future! Any practical tips, advice, cunning plans, how you did it stories etc will be appreciated. Thanks.

i have heard one person who nightweaned to start with by saying that boo boo had gone to sleep. offered water and cuddles instead

still bf during the day, just weaned at night.

i don't know about stopping entirely, but i set some rules (for myself!) about when was going to feed. i started at nothing after midnight and before xam.

try that and tell your ds that is going to happen. and then when he comes in the night say it is isn't xam yet, go back to sleep. and go back to sleep yourself. it works more easily than you might expect.