Weaning off boob

no same it’s the only way mine will fall asleep 😭

My 18 month old was still breast-feeding all night long and to get to sleep. Last weekend we just started weaning for night feeds. First I solely started with just focusing on the breast-feeding to fall asleep at bedtime. It took about three nights until he didn’t cry anymore. I still laid in bed with him the entire time until he fell asleep and found some bedtime nursery songs to listen to until he falls asleep. We do that every night now with the same songs.

Once he got the hang of not having one feed, I extended it to the next and the next and so on. last night was our second night of no feeds. At the 4 AM mark he is still pretty cranky that he doesn’t get milk, but he finds a spot to snuggle with me and he falls back to sleep shortly after.

Long, lol, but this has seemed to work for me. I was very nervous about weaning, and wasn’t about doing the cry it out method. Hope this helps! You got this!

I was nighttime feeding my 18 month old but I went away for 2 nights to break the cycle & dad got in bed with him, he said it was a nightmare first night but as he didn’t see me the next day he said he oaky the 2nd night. Dad carried on sleeping with him for another 2 nights when I was home and now I’m back in bed with him and doesn’t ask for it until 6am. He goes to bed with a bottle of cows milk now. We get up as soon as he asks and make him breakfast xxx