LO is almost 23-months. We are co-sleepers but it's starting to be a big problem for me. LO used to go down easier, but she's become super clingy. I still nurse her at night before bed (not to sleep) but then she says, "hug, Mommy?" climbs on top of me and falls asleep. This started when she was sick so I was okay with it, but now it's her thing and no hug means a fight. It's harder to slip away when she's got me in a death grip. She also is waking up in the MOTN asking to nurse and I stopped doing that a couple of months ago. I would just tell her no and pat her back and she went back to sleep. Now she will scream and yell "MORE BOOBIES MORE BOOBIES" and kick and hit. Full on tantrum mode at 2 am. I feel sorry for our neighbors.

She won't sleep in her crib, which is side-carred to our bed, so I'm thinking of just moving it over or into her room. We tried to let her cry it out (which we both have not been fans of in the past) and turns out, we still don't like it, haha. She just gets super hysterical and 2 hours later she's wide awake, we can't sleep, and our neighbors hate us even more.

I need to not fall asleep with her every night any longer and have lots of uninterrupted sleep throughout the night. DH told me today, "You should wake up with LO wakes up in the morning it might help with morning weaning." I wanted to slap him through the phone--you try being kicked and punched and begged for boobies and see how that affects your morning.

How do I make this transition the easiest on both LO and I? Move the crib to the other side of the room so she still sees we're there? Move her into her room? I'm okay with a little crying, but not hysterics.