Night weaning

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Baby is 10 months and I want to start winding down breastfeeding with a view to stopping completely around a year. I think the first step has to be weaning at night otherwise when I cut down in the day he'd be likely to wake up for extra feeds at night.
Sleeping is pretty erratic - sometimes up every few hours, sometimes only once, rarely sleeps through. However he eats solids well so I don't think nutritionally speaking breastfeeding at night is necessary at this age. He is massive for his age if that makes any difference. I know it's comfort etc not just nutrition but I've really had enough after 10 months of feeding him almost every night and am ready to stop now, he will have to have comfort by cuddles instead (as he would if I was bottle feeding or if husband helped overnight).
Any tips for night weaning? I am expecting some crying... I am wondering whether to just offer water or to offer cow's milk - I know they're not supposed to have cow's milk as a main drink yet but he would have breastmilk and formula during the day so it would just be a little bit overnight (which I suspect he wouldn't take anyway).
I did controlled crying to get away from feeding to sleep so he goes down awake which I'm hoping will help.
I know it would probably work better if husband went in but I'm pretty sure he would just say I should breastfeed him to get him back to sleep quicker so he is not going to be any help.
Any tips much appreciated!

I think it is too early. I coslept with my DD so she had cuddles and attention on demand but did needed milk durring the night until 13 months. She was ff and did not have a milk/sleep association so it was not a comfort thing.

Thank you - I don't mind offering cow's milk or formula in the night at least to start with just to check he's not properly hungry, I just really feel like I need to get away from breastfeeding in the night. My older one didn't feed in the night by this age (dropped night feeds himself) so that's probably affected my approach.
I tried co-sleeping but it really didn't work, neither of us slept well. But I know it works for lots of people.

I would imagine if I had a bf baby then cosleeping would be worse as the baby would just want to feed all the time. It would be like me and cake.

Does your little one take bottle? All my friends who night weaned said their child would only settle for Dad.

Mine when cosleeping just sprawls across half of a double bed.

I'm starting to condition a toy etc now, at 11.5 mo with a view to
gradually and gently night weaning like this: sarahockwell-smith.com/2014/08/10/how-to-gently-night-wean-a-breastfed-baby-or-toddler/

I can't be doing with sorting bottles or cups at night as it's quicker and easier to BF plus it's bad for their teeth

Thank you both for your views - he must have read my post because he slept through last night just to confuse me! He has done this occasionally before so I'm not holding my breath that the sleep problems are solved but maybe I'll give him a little longer to sort it out himself. I do agree that faffing with other sorts of milk in the night doesn't really appeal. I looked at that link and getting him used to a cuddly toy is a good idea, at 10 months I guess he's old enough not to get it stuck over his face or anything. He doesn't have a bottle but does have a sippy cup of formula every afternoon, doesn't drink loads but at least he knows what to do with it.

Yeah, mine is 1 this week so I'm a bit late to it and he's never done anything close to sleeping through but I'm tired now....

We're nearly 2 weeks into the 'conditioning' bit as it's partly timed that we don't have to change anything else before a holiday with lots of DH family in a big house so need to keep DS quiet at night!!