Last night I slept all night for the first time in 12 months. I started weaning DD 2 weeks ago when I was ill with a bug (simply couldn't get up in the night to feed her, so DH went in and offered cows milk). Since then she has started actually eating solids, drinking cows milk from a bottle and I'm down from 8 feeds a day to 1. She started sleeping much better at night, and last night, didn't wake up at all. If I hadn't caught the flu when I did, I'd still be feeding her all day and all night (and working full time into the bargain). I know this won't make a difference for most sleep deprived mums, and I may get flamed for this, but it seems that BF a one year old on demand wasn't doing her much good (she has been in the 5th percentile, down from the 75th at birth). Now she is gaining weight and can sleep all night. Much to my surprise, she doesn't seem bothered about the switch from the breast to bottle and really eating solids (instead of playing with her food she now eats it). Anyway, thought I would share my experience, hope it does someone some good.