
My daughter (11mon) is very attached to breastfeeding. Since she was born, there's never been a problem wth latching, milk production, hardly any pain, etc. My breastfeeding experience has been a dream, so I know I'm very lucky. Now that she eats solids she has weaned herself from nursing countless times a day to nursing herself to sleep, for both naps and bedtime. My only problem with this is she's SO dependent on it. And I know I've definitely encouraged it (she's my first child). I've encouraged comfort nursing and nursing on demand, which I didn't have a problem with.She cannot/will not fall asleep without nursing. I'm a SAHM, her dad works through her naps and often through her bedtime. She's never cared for pacifiers and has never gotten attached to a bottle. She bottle feeds fine but I've never had a need for it since our nursing went so well. Also, she only naps on me. I was a big believer in not holding baby every time she naps, so she could learn to nap on her own. She did very well until 4months. We were hit by a drunk driver and she refused to nap after I set her down. So that's continued since then.Lately she's been up almost every hour at night. Bedtime is 7 or 7:30pm, she sleeps through until 11:30, then up almost every hour after that until 7 or 7:30am. Every time she's up the only thing she wants is to comfort nurse herself back to sleep. I do let her cry it out sometimes but she sleeps in our bedroom and my husband works in the morning so I've gotten into the habit of shushing her so he can sleep. I know that's bad.I guess I'm asking how can I correct this? What's worked for you? I plan to continue nursing until 18months so I'm not looking to cut her off. But I'd love for her to not nurse throughout the night. Ideally, nursing herself to sleep for naps and bedtime would be great and I could hopefully work from there. via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2wwMwRp
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