Moving away from nursing to sleep

[Daisysandviolets]

We're trying to conceive number 2, so I think it's time for me to move away from breastfeeding my one year old to sleep but I don't really know how to do it, she doesn't nurse in the day at all it's only at night. Everyone I've spoken to has said to just let her cry and within a couple of days she'll be ok but it's seems a bit savage to me! Is there any gentler ways?

I still breastfeed to sleep sometimes but when she won't sleep from breastfeeding, I lay my daughter down in her cot with her teddy bears and a light projector that plays music and projects pretty patterns on the ceiling. She doesn't normally cry if she is tired, sometimes she whinges a little bit. If she is really fighting sleep I rock her in her car seat and transfer her once she is asleep! Failing that I do leave her to cry sometimes and she will usually be asleep within five to ten mins. Good luck!

A gentler way would be to practice cuddling to rocking to sleep, instead of feeding.

Do you need to? A lot self wean when you get pregnant, apparently the milk changes.

I’d start offering warn milk in a cup before bed downstairs, and then just try cuddles.