Sleep help

My girl is 11 months and turns 1 in about 3 weeks. She’s breastfed but eats 3 meals a day plus snacks. She doesn’t seem to want to breastfeed often during the day until it comes to nighttime. She’ll sleep through for like a week then it’s back to waking up every 3-4 hours at night. She will breastfeed to sleep but I have weaned her off needing the boob to nap (though she mostly still sleeps on me). She naps twice a day. The first nap is usually about 30 minutes but it’s easy to get her down. The second nap is a train wreck. She fights it so hard then gets overtired and then wakes up mad after the nap. That nap only lasts 30 minutes before she starts looking for the boob to latch to so she can sleep more (though sometimes my parents can get her to nap longer on them) but I’m so tired and burnt out I just want to sleep again but don’t know how to fix it. Anyone have any suggestions?

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I feel like i am reading about my 11 months old
I am going through exactly the same thing! We weaned him off the need of the boob to fall asleep, we rock him instead. But at night he wakes up and wants to be on my boob and next to me to sleep.. i am exhausted
Same he eats well solids during the day and i try to give him good meals so he won’t be hungry hoping that he will sleep through the night…
It works sometimes and then out of the blue some nights he just wants to be next to me and wake up 3,4 times..
It’s also not the best for his teeth we brush them at bed time but he ends up drinking milk at night..
if anyone has advice that will be helpful and we thought of moving to formula after he turns 1year but not sure that will change his behavior he will probably still wake up at night

The longest stretch of sleep ive had with my baby girl (now 11 months) is five hours - only once early on.. Regular nights its a stretch of maybe two hours. I've tried everything short of hard-core sleep training.

Shes eats three meals a day and snacks and i encourage her to BF as much as possible during the day, but it has to be in a room where there are no distractions. She naps mid-morning and sometimes in the afternoon, but I dont push the second one because I feel like shes naturally transitioning to one nap.

The one thing I found that made her sleep better (still looking for me and waking frequently, but easier to lull back to sleep without latching) was ramping up my protien intake and healthy fats and eating so I never get really hungry. I also try to remember that every little human is different with different circadian rhythms and that they are going through so much change.

Youre doing great! Each night is one step closer to a full nights sleep. ❤️

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