am I crazy? attachment parenting has led to 19 month-old waking every 2 hours

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I have been responding to nightly cries of co-sleeping dd, now 19 months, since birth, with nursing back to sleep, a la dr. Sears and attachment parenting. Mock me Dr. Ferber and gasp at the dark circles under my eyes. It ends eventually, right? Will dd eventually grow out of it? She nurses... oh 17 times a day.... It strikes me as ridiculous, but I still don't favour any other parenting philosophy than attachment parenting.

Tell me at 2 or 2.5 baby will out grow this!!

I've always co-slept with DS (18 months) and he still BF a LOT day and night too. More if we are in the house but even if at toddler group he will break off from running around a couple of times for a quick feed.

If I so much as turn over in bed he wakes up and will rarely sleep for more than 2-3 hours at a time. Very short naps in the day too.

I don't feel overly tired though. I only wake momentarily in the night when he wants a feed. He will not take no for an answer. I sleep when he sleeps even if that means we sleep til 9 am or longer sometimes. I don't have a partner but I'm lucky that I also don't have other young children to juggle as well and I'm not working. I cope the best way I can.

When it all gets too much I chant 'This too shall pass'.

My dd is 26 months old and although she stopped breast feeding months ago we have been co-sleeping up to a few weeks ago. I am 5 months pregnant and was not getting any sleep with her in the bed so we decided to give it a try. We set up her bedroom and she loves it and goes to bed in her own bed easily at night. However, it seems to me that after so long co-sleeping she has never learned to settle herself. She is waking repeatedly in the night and will only settle with me in the bed with her. I am completely exhausted now and don't know where to go from here.

suiledon - can you put her bed next to yours? might make settling her less traumatic for you.