Nursing over 1 year

Sooo I didn’t get this far with my first boy. He chose to stop drinking at 7 months and preferred bottles. My second son loves nursing and I’ve tried slowly weaning him but he for sure wants to nurse still and won’t drink more than two ounces from warm whole milk bottles. I’m fine to keep nursing, but it doesn’t feel very effective with how much he asks for it and he also is busy and won’t sit drinking for more than five minutes (unless it’s before nap or bed and then he falls asleep). I’d love advice on tips for getting him to focus—also should I keep laying him down? Sometimes he sits up but then wants to latch again and then he just chills sitting up drinking lol.

He still wakes up every three hours more or less in the night. We had an amazing week and a half of him sleeping through the night just before he turned 1 but now it’s constant wake ups. He’s a screamer and no matter how much I feed him before bed—of whole milk he ends up refusing and food he’ll eat til he refuses it—he will still chug both sides of milk each night wake up. There’s times I can get him to fall back asleep if I fight him for 45 minutes and he sleeps out of exhaustion. He’s very determined, and yeah he’ll scream the whole time. Poor neighbors. So idk, it’s not like he’s starving but he’s definitely hungry in the night too. Need some advice ! I guess every three hours is better than every hour (which we have when he’s sleep regression, which he might just be in right now 🤷🏽‍♀️) but I figured I’d ask. please and thanks!! 🙏🏽💚🙏🏽

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Had sex with husband and hes easier to be around

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Baby sleep

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Confidence in breastfeeding knocked.

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Sleeping in day

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Sometimes she’ll go down for like 20 min nap but I can’t even get her to sleep on me which before she would any one have any tips for naps in the day ☹️🩷

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