Hi all- I'm after some advice/ideas. I have a 9 month old DS - I will be going back to work in 2 months time and between now and then we need to have stopped breastfeeding and started sleeping better- and I'm not sure how to get there!
On the milk front- he won't have a bottle (hits it away, even with freshly expressed milk in it) and only drinks a negligible amount of water from a sippy cup. I have tried the NUK bottles- a brief success a couple of months ago but then he twigged what was going on and started rejecting them again.
Sleep wise he is terrible- I either feed him to sleep or put him in a stretchy sling and wander round till he drops off. Through the night he'll wake 5 or 6 times and I just plug him in for a breastfeed to keep him sleeping. And if that doesn't work I bring him in to our bed which usually works.
Any advice on how to get to where I need to be? Am going back to full time shift work so we really do need to work towards becoming less reliant on Mummy for feeding and sleeping.... ever hopeful.
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How do we stop breastfeed and start sleeping better before work starts?!
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freemyboobs · 03/12/2014 00:11
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