Hello there from a relatively ancient (48) first-time dad to a wonderful almost-two-year old daughter. My partner has breast-fed our daughter since birth, and continues to do so, albeit far less frequently now. Our daughter who until recently has co-slept with us would wake my partner up repeatedly through the night to breast-feed. (I'd wake up by default because of the noise). While our daughter now naps a good one and a half or one and three-quarters of an hour per day, she continues to wake up repeatedly - sometimes for seconds, sometimes for minutes - throughout the night. We literally have not had a full night's sleep since she was born.
In an effort to wean her off breast-feeding during the night and improve all our chances of getting a full night's sleep, about ten days ago we moved our daughter to her own room. The deal now is that I put her to bed just after mum breast-feeds her, and go into her room when she cries in the night. I can easily put her to bed, and find comforting her back to sleep to be easy...but she is crying out for mama in the middle of the night as much as she used to cry when co-sleeping and breast-feeding, so I'm still waking up at least once every two hours to do my soothing routine. Do I simply need to be patient and believe that this will all change for the better soon, or is there something in the routine that we can change so we all sleep better? Neither I nor my partner can bear to let our daughter "cry it out," for what it's worth.
Apologies for the long comment, I'm new to all this and haven't yet picked up on the protocol.