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11 mo can't sleep without nursing

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lauraroseFT · 17/05/2021 10:58

Hello, I'm trying to night-wean my 11 mo in the hope she starts to sleep better. She's only ever nursed to sleep and is still waking up multiple times per night. I did a really gentle sleep strategy with my first baby and she eventually slept straight through the night after being weaned. But it's not working with my second one! She just can't self soothe. She's ok with my husband putting her down for the night/ naps or even sometimes resettling her but she needs to be walked for a long time. It's like she gets really exhausted but not that sleepy state where I can put her down and let her try to do it herself. She's either wide awake and jumps up the minute I put her down or she's over tired and cries and wants to be nursed. There seems to be no middle ground with her like there was with my first. Can anyone give me advice on how to help her self-soothe/ get sleepy without getting overtired? I've tried loveys and dummies. Sometimes if she's in bed with me I can stroke her back and she goes back to sleep but that's not often. please help I'm at my wits end and feel like I'm becoming a bad mother because of sleep deprivation. thank you x

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FATEdestiny · 17/05/2021 19:29

you'll need to stop breastfeeding before all sleeps in order to break the feed to sleep habit, so not just night wean on it's own.

Assuming you are doing that, I'm afraid you either (a) need to be much, much more patient or (b) be a bit harsher with your methods. It largely depends which parenting camp you're in as to which option you go for - neither is right and neither is wrong.

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