...This was the post I hoped someone would write to give me a bit of hope and it's finally happened!
My 16.5 mo dd slept through the night last having co-slept half of the night since the was born and still regularly bf-ing. Went down just after 7, woke just before 5 for a feed and then slept til 6.30. Absolutely no intervention from us, attempts to sleep train or anything.
May be a one off but at least we now know she can do it. Maybe we didn't make a rod for own back after all - In Your Face well-meaning elderly relatives!
Hope this gives someone somewhere a bit of hope!