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I moved nursing to the beginning of her routine, so after pjs, we would nurse and then I'd do the story and song. She dropped her bedtime session around 14 months.

It stopped working around 12 months, but DS nursed anyway in the evenings out of habit till maybe 15 months, and took a bottle for a couple more. Plus he nursed to sleep every night at 2 am from 12 to 15 months because he had molars coming through. Then he decided he's a big boy and doesn't need all that

I nursed DS to sleep until he was about 16-17 months when I weaned him from breastfeeding. Only reason I weaned tho was because I was pregnant with DD and nursing became painful and i dried up! I started giving him bottles of warmed up milk instead of nursing and he seemed satisfied with that then we moved to sippy cups of milk. Then we moved the milk to earlier in bedtime routine and DH started putting him to bed and sitting in his room with him until he fell asleep and slowly started leaving him in his room to fall asleep on his own. Eventually around 2, we were able to just leave him in his room to fall asleep on his own for naps and bedtime.

if nursing to sleep is working for you, then I would keep doing it!

@twodoghouse: he fell asleep at first, but as he got older, just got drowsy and now he goes to bed fully awake.

@twodoghouse: If I could tell that she was just comfort sucking, I would remove my nipple. Sometimes she bit me on accident doing that and it hurt. But usually she stops when she is done and has since about 12 months.

I nursed DD to sleep until about 13 months. She wasn't able to fall asleep without it which got us into a pretty rough situation. In the first stage of weaning her, I'd pop her off the second she started getting drowsy/falling asleep and hold her til she fell asleep or pass her off to DH to walk her to sleep. Second stage was DH giving a sippy cup of milk which she took only an oz or two at most, so we knew she wasn't hungry at night, just nursing for comfort. He'd then walk/rock her to sleep and then transfer her to the crib. Once she started realizing what was happening, she was waking constantly or the instant she was put into the crib, so we had to do CIO so that she could learn to put herself to sleep.

One night LO just leaned toward her crib when we walked by it before sitting down to nurse so I put her in it, totally thinking she'd whine and reach for me, and she just curled up and went to sleep. I was astonished, and sad. She was about 15 months I think. It's bad I can't remember - it hasn't been very long! She still wants to nurse for naps.

I weaned DS when he was about 1. I just went cold turkey and didn't allow him to nurse during MOTN. It was pure hell for about a week or two, but once he got it, he slept better. Until he was teething or got sick, but otherwise, what a diff!

I nursed DD to sleep until she was 21 months when I weaned her. I had DH sit with her at night until she fell asleep for about a week. There was some crying for the first couple days, then she got used to the new routine. It broke my heart listening to her and I cried too the first night. But she was definitely old enough to understand what we were saying to her and it helped that DH was there with her. She has been sleeping so much better since we weaned.

For us, it came at 14 months with full weaning... Which is also when we finally did sleep training. DD started sleeping through the night the night we started and hasn't looked back since.