Gentle sleep training/Weaning Baby from breastfeeding

Moms who are currently breastfeeding or have breastfed, I need some advice.
My baby is almost 9 months and still wakes anywhere from 2–6 times a night. My body is finally catching up, and I’m extremely sleep deprived.

I’d love to hear tips on gentle sleep training and also on slowly weaning from breastmilk at night. My goal is to continue breastfeeding until about 15 months, but I really need some ways to help her sleep longer stretches or at least cut back on some of the night feeds.

Right now, when she wakes she cries so hard that she won’t calm down until I either hold her or nurse her, and it’s really tough because Dad can’t help much — she refuses his soothing attempts.

Any advice or personal experiences would mean so much. Thank you

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We just one day started going in and just doing pacifier and patting . He would sleep again without needing any food .
Important for us was do not pick baby up when going in.

And when you do start sleep training it can happen that you don’t sleep much the first view days .

Don’t give up! They just need a minute to adjust

We went from bottle/ boob every 2-3h to only at 9pm dream feed and a 3 am feed . now we are getting to only a dream feed at 9pm .

Make sure she gets enough during the day. Focus on full feeds.
Then when she wakes up give her time to settle. Then pat, rock, shush, calm in whatever way you can without picking up. If that doesn’t work. Pick her up and calm her. If she wakes back up start again. We’d do it 3 times before feeding. It took about two weeks before she didn’t need to eat at night anymore. Did this at 6.5 months.
It’s a really hard few weeks and it’s so tempting to just feed so you can sleep some but you got this!

I read like 3 or 4 books and just did a combination of them and I had both kids sleeping through the night at 5months. You just eliminate one night feeding at a time and eventually they don’t wake up. My son is 2.5 and I still feed him before bed but I’m also EBF my daughter who is 7months

We co-sleep with ours (she sleeps next to me with bed rails on the other side), and that makes it easier to pop out a boob and suckle at night while still half asleep. Some times she fusses and I’ll roll her over to me and hug her and pat her gently, and she will not require a feed then.

Is she co-sleeping?

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