Fed up

My 16 month old is only waking twice a night but for both those time she is suckling on me for 40 minutes and then I can’t transfer her to the cot so I’m in there for nearly an hour and then have to end up getting my husband to come in when she’s asleep enough to pass her to him, within 10/15 minutes of being in there he gets her down

I know two wake ups isn’t bad but being in there for so long is killing me and then because I’m so awake after that it’s really hard to get back to sleep.

The only answer is to stop the nursing back to sleep but she cries so much I can’t handle it, a few minutes feels like a life time 😩 I feel so trapped and fed up this is so so hard. I can deal with multiple wakes if she goes back down easily but this is torture
I wouldn’t even mind co sleeping but our bed is way too high and our mattress is very soft so it’s not safe and whenever we’ve tried anyway she just gets wide awake and thinks it’s play time 🤦🏻‍♀️

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It’s her second wake now and we’re trying not to give in and give her the boob, she’s been crying (on us) for 50 minutes, I feel like the worst mum in the world

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Co-sleep and feed side lying.. game changer. Get a firm mattress topper.

I couldn’t be dealing with transferring etc. if you co-sleep latch baby then go back to sleep.

It’s the only way I’ve survived breastfeeding 2 babies x

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It’s tough but you’re doing great! I know it’s hard but two or three torture nights of not giving in and she will sleep through. My little would also wake me up but now she’s 19 months and we’ve had about four months of great sleep. She now sleeps about 9-10 hours straight. Around 15/16 months we had the two awful nights, she would stay up for hours and I would just pretend I was asleep until she tired herself out and knocked out. Then she just stopped waking up because she knew she wasn’t getting milk until morning.

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I'm with Samantha, you got to let her cry it out.

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I had this also, in the end we removed me entering the room at all and solely my husband entered and did the wake ups, we introduced a teddy and just kept offering her that and stroking her with it after id laid with it for a couple of nights....took about 5 days but it sorted it out,....we also made sure we timed exactly 5 mins before he entered, feels like a lifetime but it's not x

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The comfort ladder where you try different things first with nursing as a last option helped up move away from feeding back to sleep and you only allow 30 seconds of crying before trying something else.

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I don’t want to be that guy and dishearten you but my breastfed baby didn’t sleep independently or through the night until we weaned entirely.

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Will your husband be able to go to her a few nights when she wakes? Since she does somewhat settle for him. And you can be somewhere where you can't hear her cries? And your husband can call you in if it's getting too much x

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My 16 month old is only waking twice a night but for both those time she is suckling on me for 40 minutes and then I can’t transfer her to the cot so I’m in there for nearly an hour and then have to end up getting my husband to come in when she’s asleep enough to pass her to him, within 10/15 minutes of being in there he gets her down

I know two wake ups isn’t bad but being in there for so long is killing me and then because I’m so awake after that it’s really hard to get back to sleep.

The only answer is to stop the nursing back to sleep but she cries so much I can’t handle it, a few minutes feels like a life time 😩 I feel so trapped and fed up this is so so hard. I can deal with multiple wakes if she goes back down easily but this is torture
I wouldn’t even mind co sleeping but our bed is way too high and our mattress is very soft so it’s not safe and whenever we’ve tried anyway she just gets wide awake and thinks it’s play time 🤦🏻‍♀️

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