DD is 18 mo. For a very long time indeed she has bf to sleep. Up until recently though, if she woke in the night if I saw to her she would, again, only bf to sleep, but if DH got up he could shh pat her back to sleep. It's not just waking in the night that's a problem though (as she doesn't always do this), it's getting her asleep from our bed having just bf to her cot without waking her - some nights it takes 2 hours as she wakes up as we carry her and screams and then needs another bf to sleep, and the pattern can repeat several times until she's finally properly asleep in her cot.
She now will only ever get back to sleep with a bf though, nothing else works and if DH goes to her she just goes crazy and gets in a manic crying state.
FWIW her day naps are spent in the buggy or car seat as she won't nap in her cot and needs to be walked/swayed in the car to sleep.
Today we are putting in her room a big girl bed (4 foot bed) with the idea that I can bf her in there so we don't have to move her and that if she wakes up she might be more settled with DH if he can lie in the bed with her as opposed to patting her through the cot. She's never been overly keen on her cot and I wonder if I big bed will make her more happier as there's more freedom.
Does this look like it might work? I want to break the bfing when she wakes up in the night - there will be a time where I don't bf her anymore and she needs to learn to get back to sleep. But then I realise I'll still be bfing her to sleep in this bed but just trying something new when she wakes in the night. We've tried CC in the past and not sure we want to try again as we had 2 weeks of her screaming for hours at a time. Tonight will be her first night in big girls bed so I want to make sure we start with a pattern as we mean to go on.