I have already posted this in the Sleep topic, but I thought I post it here as well....
My DD2 (20 wk) has never been a good sleeper, but she always slept from 7pm until 1am, I would then feed her in bed with me and after that I never really managed to put her back to sleep in her cot, so ended up co- sleeping until the morning with her feeding every 1-2 hrs. She then started sleeping through the night when I went to Italy to visit my parents for Xmas, there she would sleep from 7pm until 7am! Since back things have really deteriorated, she now sleeps from 7pm until 11.30pm and after that she is on the breast all night, pulling, kicking, falling asleep etc. I do not mind feeding her during the night, but I feel that she is just using my breast as a dummy, as soon as I take my nipple out of her mouth she wakes up and she only settles if I put her back on the breast. My DD1 is having a kidney operation in June and will need to stay in hospital for a week and I?ll be staying with her, so I do not want DD2 to rely on my breast to go back to sleep, but at the same time I really do not want to let her cry! My question really is if this is just a phase and it is most likely to pass soon, or if I should be stopping this comfort feeding now so that she learns that after a feed she needs to go back to sleep. Unfortunately she does not take the dummy. My DH keeps going on that I should just feed her and put her back in her cot and my mum says I should just let her cry, I feel so down, I feel I am doing everything wrong, but I really can?t stand to listen to her cry.....