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You’re doing a great job! Btw I also nurse my daughter too to sleep at 16 months. We co sleep together since it’s easier for me to get more sleep. One day it will get better that they will get there without it but until then just know it’s normal and it won’t last forever ❤️ Also I want to add I have been working to getting my daughter to sleep in her own bed so I have her bed next to mines on the floor. I start off nursing her to sleep and then I go on my bed if I don’t fall asleep with her. When she start to rustle awake (this happens about 3 times) I go back to her to nurse her to sleep again before she fully gets up that has helped since she literally goes back to sleep pretty quickly. Sometimes I end up sleeping next to her other times I have successfully slept separately for a few hrs 😅. Hopefully in time as it’s been two weeks that she will learn to sleep on her own.
I’m in the same boat as you with our 16 month old but am also 7 months pregnant. We are able to keep him in his crib most of the night only because my husband can often do the first few wakeups. But sometime around midnight our LO demands the boob. Just had a night where he took 2 hours to go down to sleep 30 minutes (did that several times). I have no real advice but whenever my LO is doing something I’d rather they didn’t I think: ‘will they be doing it when they are ten…’ (will they be doing it when they are 20…) and the answer is pretty much always no. So think of it as a phase. Give that baby just as much love and patience as you can.
Our girl is the same age and she co sleeps between us, I comfort nurse her to sleep. She has her crib “attached” to our bed, and sometimes I put her there after she falls to sleep the first time (and then keep her in the bed co sleeping after that). But usually just sleep in bed with us. Since she will start looking for my boob in her sleep a few times in the night (and will wake up if she can’t find it) it’s just easier to to have her next to me. And honestly, I find it so cozy now. I used to struggle around 4 months when we were trying to teach her to sleep in her crib by herself, which just led to one of us up and rocking her forever just to get up and do the same thing soon again, which led to exhausting nights and lack of sleep. I didn’t want to fully sleep train so eventually just surrendered to co sleep and now all get good sleep. And I love it. I obviously wake up when I hear her start to move and “pop my boob in “ but I barely have to move for that. This works best for us❤️
I was in the same boat and got a Montessori style bed (queen) on the floor and his room and I “fall asleep” with him and then leave once he’s gone to sleep. And on nights when he won’t stay in bed or stay asleep then I sleep with him. Hope this helps some. Just remember: this doesn’t last forever 🫶🏼
I am in the same boat, actually right now she's in the bed with us at 16 months and I still nurse her all night, I keep saying I will stop I will stop but I struggle so hard and I give in and let her nurse and put her in the bed, now when I say let's go night night she goes straight to our room I try to put her in her room and bed and she isn't having it. I am at a lost too, I have asked so many people for advice and all they say is just let her cry it out but I can't I'm not that kind of person and I read that it can affect them when they are older for crying it out so yes I am with yall I have no idea what to do
Girl, that sounds absolutely exhausting.. I would be a shell of a human if I had a lot of wake ups (and I was). Sleep training was the answer for my family and since then she sleeps really well, with few hiccups when she is sick which is very understandable.
It’s going to take more than a few days, I would say about a week you will see some results if you don’t give in. It’s really hard but that’s all he’s ever known ❤️! You got this!