Yeah, you'll be creating another sleep association. I would choose something easier to do, and easier to wean off of.
We did NCSS at about the same age. We got a toddler bed and set it up in our room next to our bed. DH started putting him to bed at bedtime, so no nursing. At first he walked/rocked/did whatever it took. But gradually he got to the point of putting ds in the toddler bed, covering him up, and patting/singing him to sleep while sitting on the floor beside him.
When he woke the first time during the night, I would nurse him a little bit, but then use the same patting technique. For subsequent wakings I just nursed him back to sleep. What happened was -- his initial period of sleep started to stretch to a longer period of sleep. And his other wakings began to be perceptably further apart. He began to understand that he could wake up and fall back to sleep with nursing.
DS has asthma though, so we never did get him sleeping through. One illness would undo a lot. But we did get him sleeping for longer stretches, and that was my only real goal, kwim? 5 hours is a miracle when you are in that situation.
I also did nightwean, but found that I didn't have the heart until he was old enough to really understand when I prepared him for it verbally. Maybe 2.5 yo. I wasn't comfortable with doing it until we could have a conversation about it.
We did NCSS at about the same age. We got a toddler bed and set it up in our room next to our bed. DH started putting him to bed at bedtime, so no nursing. At first he walked/rocked/did whatever it took. But gradually he got to the point of putting ds in the toddler bed, covering him up, and patting/singing him to sleep while sitting on the floor beside him.
When he woke the first time during the night, I would nurse him a little bit, but then use the same patting technique. For subsequent wakings I just nursed him back to sleep. What happened was -- his initial period of sleep started to stretch to a longer period of sleep. And his other wakings began to be perceptably further apart. He began to understand that he could wake up and fall back to sleep with nursing.
DS has asthma though, so we never did get him sleeping through. One illness would undo a lot. But we did get him sleeping for longer stretches, and that was my only real goal, kwim? 5 hours is a miracle when you are in that situation.
I also did nightwean, but found that I didn't have the heart until he was old enough to really understand when I prepared him for it verbally. Maybe 2.5 yo. I wasn't comfortable with doing it until we could have a conversation about it.
