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AnnieEL
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
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*Kendra316*
HI! Question for you, if you don?t mind. I was reading the post on sleep suggestions and I am currently in the same position you were. My daughter is 15 months still nursing to sleep, in our bed, and waking up several times a night. I?m kicking myself for not having dealt with it by now. What did you do about the nursing piece while sleep training? I?d love to be able to be done all together; I had no intention of nursing this long. She begs for it and it?s a sleep crutch, so I guess I?m trying to figure out whether to try to stop nursing first or to deal with the sleep problem first (or both at the same time)?. Thanks for any info that you might have!
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Re: *Kendra316*
Hi!! Like you, I never expected to nurse for 26 months. When we got him out of our bed at 14 months, I didnt want to change too much in his routine. So I left nursing a part of our bedtime routine, but I did NOT let him fall asleep on the boob anymore. I wanted to break the sleep crutch. I also shortened the time on each side. I let him have a couple minutes on each side, then it was hugs, kisses and right into bed.
He still woke up a once or twice per night and I would nurse him back to sleep. It never messed up his initial going to sleep, so I let it be (it was just easier). But he soon started STTN until morning more and more until he wasnt waking at all.
Then after he got used to going to sleep wide awake and being put down by other people than just me with no nursing, it was my goal to stop the nursing before bed. I tried it one night myself and I waited for him to ask, he never did, so I just skipped that part of our routine and he was fine with it. Of course I went downstairs and cried, but I still had our morning nursing (which I used to just be lazy and get a few extra minutes in bed). But I knew I had to drop that last one. We were TTC #2 and my RE said I had to completely stop. So I did and he asked a handful of times and I just told him that mommies milk was for babies and he was a big boy and he would move on.
It wasn't has hard as I had thought it would be. You can also try moving the nursing to before PJs, before its dark in the room. I just really cherished that dark quiet time with him in the rocker. GL!!
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