OK so DS nurses a zillion times a night and he's 26mos now and I've had ENOUGH. So after various attempts to nightwean, I tried something a friend mentioned worked for her DS... I told him all his friends didn't nurse at night and they were all asleep (I named them each one by one). It works... for the last 2 nights he'll put up a fuss but once I remind him about his friends not nursing, he reluctantly goes back to sleep.
I have tried everything else I could think of... giving him a light-up stuffed animal or his favorite toy instead of milk, telling him we don't nurse until the sun comes up, explaining that my milks need to sleep and *I* need to sleep, singing to him, rocking him, etc. NOTHING works (everything results in throwing, kicking, screaming) except telling him his friends don't nurse during the night.
I don't know how I feel about this. I'm not lying to him but I don't know if I like the idea of using peer pressure basically, to get him to do something. Am I setting him up for a lifetime of "well everyone else is doing it"????????
I have tried everything else I could think of... giving him a light-up stuffed animal or his favorite toy instead of milk, telling him we don't nurse until the sun comes up, explaining that my milks need to sleep and *I* need to sleep, singing to him, rocking him, etc. NOTHING works (everything results in throwing, kicking, screaming) except telling him his friends don't nurse during the night.
I don't know how I feel about this. I'm not lying to him but I don't know if I like the idea of using peer pressure basically, to get him to do something. Am I setting him up for a lifetime of "well everyone else is doing it"????????
