Hello,
I'm trying to go CLW, but I'm wavering because I am finally at the end of the rope with nighttime nursing/comfort sucking. Thus far, I have put no restrictions on nursing/comfort sucking. My DS is 27 months old. I don't care about the daytime including nap time; he is so busy usually that he forgets to nurse unless he gets upset in some way.
Nap time nursing, he won't skip since that's how he goes to sleep and so is it at night; so whenever he awakes at night which can be every 1 1/2 hour sometimes average he comes for me -- we co-sleep.
I'm reading NCSS and like the approach and I wanted to hear how other mothers, especially if you co-slept and had an LO older than 2 at the time, who read and took this approach dealt with night weaning. I'd be grateful if you could answer a few questions:
Let me know your general situation as I did here at the time of using NCSS so I can compare apples to apples.
1. What part of the technique did you have most trouble with and what would you do differently?
2. What part of the technique did you have great success with and why do you think that is?
I am being realistic, I think, about not expecting a 12 hour w/o waking night. 6 to 8 are possible as per my readings. So one or two nursing would be great compared to what I have. I want him to learn to go back to sleep by himself for the most part.
Thank you for your time,
bam
I'm trying to go CLW, but I'm wavering because I am finally at the end of the rope with nighttime nursing/comfort sucking. Thus far, I have put no restrictions on nursing/comfort sucking. My DS is 27 months old. I don't care about the daytime including nap time; he is so busy usually that he forgets to nurse unless he gets upset in some way.
Nap time nursing, he won't skip since that's how he goes to sleep and so is it at night; so whenever he awakes at night which can be every 1 1/2 hour sometimes average he comes for me -- we co-sleep.
I'm reading NCSS and like the approach and I wanted to hear how other mothers, especially if you co-slept and had an LO older than 2 at the time, who read and took this approach dealt with night weaning. I'd be grateful if you could answer a few questions:
Let me know your general situation as I did here at the time of using NCSS so I can compare apples to apples.
1. What part of the technique did you have most trouble with and what would you do differently?
2. What part of the technique did you have great success with and why do you think that is?
I am being realistic, I think, about not expecting a 12 hour w/o waking night. 6 to 8 are possible as per my readings. So one or two nursing would be great compared to what I have. I want him to learn to go back to sleep by himself for the most part.
Thank you for your time,
bam
but I can't see her willing to go to sleep without being fresh off the boob. I try to do everything to encourage her to sleep peacefully at night- make her comfortable, make sure she is well fed and (both of us) hydrated, bedtime routine, etc. She still wakes up pretty often to nurse. She shows some signs that she would prefer her own space, and I suspect she would wake up less if she had it. I should probably refer back to the book for more tips. I consider us successful in this area because she does go back to sleep easily when her needs are met and never spends long periods of time awake during the night- several months ago that was not the case for us! I have poor sleep habits so I think that might contribute to her sleeping better by herself. So some of these observations may help you, or they may not. Hopefully other mamas can share their experiences as well : )
when I finally couldn't take one more waking although I'm not done reading the whole thing in NCSS and we spent 2 hours going back and forth until I finally decided to try the talking approach since he can understand and that did the trick along with him being tired. No crying at all 
just a few complaints.
