how to brake the nursing-to-sleep habbit

[mummy22]

hi

i have a beautiful 13 month old son and i am trying to wean him of breastfeeding but this is how i get him to sleep.
i have started rocking him to sleep for his day time nap, but a night and when he wakes up after that i nurse him to sleep.
i would like to know how to gt him to sleep get him to sleep on his own.

has anybody else had this problem???
what did you try to get them to sleep on their own that worked? :confused:

my hasband and i plan to go away in 2 months time and his nanny ( we live with her ) will be looking after him and would like to get him off the breast milk before then (and it about time anyway, i need a good drink too hehe ;) )

thank you :)
mummy22

[TLCC]

We had trouble settling my DD when she would wake during the night but often found that a small sip or two of water was all that was needed and she would go back to sleep relatively peacefully.

We spent many months rocking to sleep and whilst it solved our problems at the time it created more headaches when we wanted to stop that and let her settle on her own.

It will take a few weeks but try to let him start to settle on his own a bit. Even if you stay in the room with him, just chat to him and say time to sleep and lay him down in his cot each time he jumps up and you might find it starts to work.

Maybe also try moving his daytime milk feed to a different time so it doesn't co-incide with a sleep? Then he might be happy to take a bottle (or whatever your going to use) and then not expect to be sleeping straight away.

Its a hard one but I hope some of these suggestions may have helped.

Good Luck and don't give up trying.

[DB&O]

Hi, I found with my 10 month old, who has been self-settling since 3 months but who went through a rough patch when we got rid of her dummy & wanted to be rocked to sleep, that putting her in her cot while still awake but staying in the room where she could see me but avoiding eye contact & not talking to her worked really well, I used to use the time to tidy up or put away her clothes & eventually she would just go off to sleep or once she was settled I could leave the room without her cracking up. It also helped that we gave her a soft, safe teddie that she could cuddle up with for security, a friend even said to rub the teddie on my chest so it would have my smell, this may work for you as well. Good luck.