Co-Sleeping and sleep training

[LillyPillly]

Has anyone done this successfully?
My 14 month old is breastfed and is waking every 1.5/2 hours at night to feed back to sleep.
She breastfeeds then I transfer her to her cot for daytime naps and she settles herself fine, but every time I try and put her in her cot at night she screams hysterically.
There are comfort toys and a nightlight in there for her so it's not too dark. She is eating plenty during the day and is in the 100th percentile for height and 60th for weight. She also drinks water from a sippy cup.
I don't mind her co-sleeping at night (in fact I love her sleeping with me) but I just don't want to be woken up constantly to be a human pacifier!
Is it possible to co-sleep and sleep train and if anyone has done it could I please have some advice? Thanks :)

Do you want to share a bed but not have her feed so much? She's not going to take the change without a bit of annoyance.

There's a technique where you let them feed almost to sleep but not quite. Gently break the latch as they're drifting off. She'll stir and get back on. Keep doing it and eventually she'll go to sleep without the nipple in her mouth. Build on this to break the feed to sleep habit.

Another friend just went to bed in a cardigan buttoned right up to her neck so boobs were inaccessible. Baby was annoyed but got over it.

We found we all got better sleep when we put dd in separate room tho. Did gradual retreat method, not exactly fun but only took a few nights for her to get used to it.

Thanks. My baby doesn't even feed to sleep as such, she feeds, rolls around a bit, sometimes has a little bay chat to me then goes back to sleep. I think I might need to go the cardigan method!

It sounds like what you want to do is night wean her and not sleep train. I night weaned mine around 13 months (he’s 15 months now) but I also moved him to his own room. I was going back to work and needed to not be co sleeping so I didn’t just wake him up when I got up for work.

I cut down on night feeds at first, so I’d feed him up until we went to bed, but not after until morning and then finally did only bedtime and morning. We just figured out new things to do to help him go to sleep. It did take about a month or so though. You definitely can night wean and carry on co sleeping, but I think it’s usually harder because they smell the milk more. We definitely get better sleep now though and it’s been fine once we adjusted.