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We had to stop nursing to sleep when she stopped staying asleep when I transferred her. We had to do some CIO but it wasn't too, too horrible (haha I say that now.) For us, what worked was to do it first for bed time-- CIO, only took a couple of days for her to get it. But we ended up keeping nursing to sleep for naps just so she would get the day time sleep. Then after a couple of weeks of solidly going down by herself at bed, we did it for naps too and it went much smoother. Eventually her naps lengthened as well, since she could stir and settle herself, where before, she would stir and be like, where's mom? Where's the boob?!?! She was actually exactly 4.5 months when we did it for naps.

@Mrs. Yoyo: yes, I stopped nursing or rocking to sleep at night first. We started a routine of diaper change and pjs, sleep sack, book, then singing twinkle twinkle while nursing to sleep (or bouncing if nursing didn't work) to get her used to a routine. Then I started nursing her in the living room with lights on, then bring her into her room and doing the diaper, pjs, book. Sleep sack, and holding her while singing twinkle twinkle. So the routine was mostly the same but nursing was first. (We don't do bath every night so it's not part of the routine. It's maybe ten minutes after I'm done nursing.

I only have one- I can only imagine solo parenting and having a toddler is very difficult!