14 month old waking every 2 hours for breastfees

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My DD is just short of 14 month old and is eating an okay amount of solids during the day (she was a slow starter to weaning). She wakes every 2 hours from when she goes to bed to waking up. If I don't breast feed her she goes bonkers. We co-sleep at the moment so I can get better sleep. Anyone experienced anything similar? I'm thinking to wait until she understand a bit more to try stop feeding so much in the night. Any advice appreciated

At that age, she's old enough for you to be able to tell her there'll be no more milk until morning - and mean it! She'll only go bonkers once because there'll be nothing in it for her and nothing worth waking up for. My son was a bit older when I ruthlessly drew a line under night feeds - I think about 16 months - but it was ultimately so easy, I wished I'd done it earlier! Good luck.

She has no biological need to feed at night at 14 months.
At some point you will have to deal with the bonkers. Depends when your tolerance for constantly broken sleep ends.

If you're able, I would move her to her own room.
When DD2 was about 9mos, we moved her to her own room b/c she was waking in the night and the quickest way to send her back to sleep was to BF her. Sleeping in her own room, if she woke, she would settle herself.

I just fed mine, I night weaned my first at 18 months but I regretted it later as it was too soon for her, so I did it with my youngest at 2 and that was definitely about right. Personally I would just feed her OP, it will be a phase in her growth, or you aren't connecting so much with her in the day and she's using it as a way to get close. If it's that you can spend more time together in waking hours and see if that resolves it. But it won't last forever either way. This too shall pass!

She doesn't need milk from then (my youngest stopped bring at night by 12 weeks). With the other two I stopped feeding at night from about 10 months. Just got DH to put them to sleep for a few nights as when they saw me they just wanted milk. We out then in their own room. I need sleep or am very grumpy so I guess it depends on your ability to cope.

Mine are all fecking huge (well over 6 foot) and healthy so didn't impede them!

I had this with my DD, she used me as a human dummy during the night and for her short lunchtime nap. I was advised to put her in her cot awake, she cried of course- wait outside the bedroom for 3 minutes, go back in without speaking to lay her down and then leave. It took 7 cycles of lay down/walk away for 3 minutes at the lunchtime nap before she went to sleep. That evening it took two cycles of the lay down and walk out routine. After that I just put her in her cot awake and she went to sleep when she was ready - no crying. If I’d have known how easy it would be to break the habit I would have done it sooner. Horrible to do at the time but definitely better for her and me in the long run