breastfeeding 14mnth baby back to sleep all night

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I need help. My 14 mnth baby is still being breastfed to sleep. I dont mind this for her daytime nap and night feed but she can wake up, up to four times or more a night and ive formed a habit of nursing her back to sleep. Now she cant go to sleep any other way. I know this has to change- so tired- but is there any other way than CIO? Also if I do CIO am i not sending mixed messages to her by putting her to sleep with boob when she first goes down but refusing her boob during the night? I want to continue breastfeeding longer, she has now three feeds during the day. I have great support from my partner that allows me to catch up sleep during the day but a new work situation will soon stop this. Help.

Dummy?

Posted too early there. But not that much more to say than have you tried a dummy (apologies if that is too obvious!). Also, can your partner try settling her whilst you stay out of sight?

We night weaned earlier, I think around 11-13 months (all a bit hazy) by offering water, a cuddle and dummy during night wakings. Took one night and she was happy and didn't try and get booby, even though we cosleep.

Can you reduce the feeds a bit at a time? Or get your partner to resettle and offerwater? That's how we sorted DS out.

At this age mine suddenly started dropping night feeds on his own - I may have been lucky.

I'm trying to encourage him to drop his last middle of the night feed now that he's 16 months, and the Pantley pull-off (no cry sleep solution) where I gently push under his chin to close his mouth when he's down to barely sucking seems to be working to reduce his dependency on me (it's been working like a charm - without it, there's desperate sleepy grabbing and straining to get the nipple back, with it there's a token struggle and he drops straight off) - worth a try?