Still breastfeeding my 17 month old. Only morning, afternoon at 5pm when I get home and evening. Weekends I BF to sleep for naps. It's been fabuluous, until 3 weeks ago I just had to get a boob out, he calmed down instantly, went into a deep sleep, in less than 5 minutes, and mostly stayed asleep. Same for any night wakings (he sleeps very well unless teething or ill).
But the last 3 weeks it's just not working anymore, he's taking aaaaaaages, like 20 minutes and still needs a rock and a pat. Tried lying down in bed with him and it doesn't work. Has started regularly waking at 4am too.
What do I do? He's a sensitive little boy, there's no way ferber or CIO will work for him. I can't leave him to it.
Dad tried settling him, he won't have it, he gets so worked up now if dad goes in that he screams and screams and then takes me an hour to put him down (again, unusual, as until 3 weeks ago he did go to sleep for dad if I was not there).
He sleeps 7.30 - 6.30 ish, has one nap of 1.5 hours.