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Yuup that's about the age when it stopped working for us for naps (it continued to work for night time for a while). He would wake up as soon as I put him down. I did a gradual nap training--basically rocking him til drowsy, then putting him in the crib and sitting in the room with him. I would pick him up if he was really upset but otherwise I would just soothe him from the glider until he fell asleep. It took about 1-2 weeks, but he was then able to fall asleep on his own from being awake.

For bedtime, he was always able to put himself to sleep at the beginning of the night, but had to nurse to sleep for nightwakings (and there were a lot). So for those we did Ferber's method at 6.5 months to get down to 1 waking, and it was much better.

You can try watching the Isis webinar on gently reducing night feedings. It might help you break the boob/sleep association.

*hangsheadinshame* LO is 16 months and we are still doing. I have been on DH like white on rice about this. Sigh.

He has put her to bed a few times and obviously she naps at daycare no problems.

L is 8 months and I am trying to reduce the amount of time on the boob during night feedings- I've literally started popping him off and playing keep away with my nipple.

23 months and still doing it (but she usually goes in the crib awake unless I fall asleep in the glider... which i do regularly). she can nap without nursing (since we nap trained at 8 months). but bedtime i've always put her down.

We used No Cry Sleep Solution, and were veeeery gradual. We stopped at 16 months, we had a pretty easy transition since we were gradually working on weaning too. We did bath time, brush teeth, jammies, read a book, then walk to bed. He also would play with his Scout doll in bed until he fell asleep.

No hanging head here.... we still nurse to sleep on most occasions, probably 50% of the time for naps & 75-80% for bedtime. We've gone through stages where she prefers to be laid straight down, others where she nurses completely asleep, & others where we nurse until drowsy. We still nurse back to sleep 100% of wakings. I've adjusted to change our routine to her needs at any given stage.... I'm pretty sure what I see at "working" is different than alot of moms here though since our sleep soothing/training views are different.

The way I see it, the boob is the one thing that she can't take "with her" so at some point she'll grow to be more independent & leave it behind... just not sure when she'll be ready to do that though. lol

@runsyellowlites: I do because I personally feel the only reason why she still does is because I've been too chicken to let it go! She's at daycare so I *know* she doesn't need it to sleep.

So it's laziness and selfishness on my part. But then my views on dependence on binkies, thumb sucking, etc are not the norm either. So it bothers me that she depends on my boob to fall asleep when she is with me.

@Silva: We've gone through periods like that. Some were WW periods where as soon as the first grey week appeared any ounce of P's self sufficient sleeping (the little she had) flew out the window. Usually right around the time I'd start struggling with the "I'm setting herself up with bad habits" she start to level out again, or it'd at least start looking like "normalcy" (her normal) was coming back in sight on the horizon. That's what I meant by saying I just adjusted to her needs... Sometimes they were much more demanding than others & I got less of the me time I needed (I still occasionally deal with being "touched out") but overall I think she has pretty good self sufficients considering she's never been made/trained to do so.

I totally get needing that time though... I still need that time so if P is up till midnight I'm up till 1 so I can decompress... DH sleeps on the couch while be waits. Lol

Could you possibly be dealing with a WW or teething?