Transition to not nursing to sleep?

If you're not against the bottle, I have had a lot of success rocking with a bottle and eventually just giving my DD a bottle. I am still trying to figure out nightweaning at almost 2 yrs, but the bottle swap for BF was super easy, and we never used a bottle more than a dozen times before that.

Honestly, I'd wait until just before then start working on it. She's so young. Good luck.

When I started working on that, I stopped nursing DS right when his nursing changed from active sucking to flutters. So I was putting him down "drowsy but awake". Then I started nursing him in the living room and then carrying him to his bedroom, so he was a tiny bit more awake. If he cried, I picked him back up right away and nursed him again. I stopped there because my goal was just for him to be able to fall back asleep without nursing (or crying, of course) in the middle of the night (it only worked a little, but any little bit of extra sleep makes me happy, and he never had to cry). Maybe after that you could introduce Daddy carrying her to bed instead of you, so she gets used to Daddy cuddling her to bed?

I'm a student and I went back to school when my daughter was 10 months old. I didn't do anything beforehand at all to prepare us, and she did absoultely fine. I think they really are adaptable when mama isn't there. My daughter is now 20 months and still doing fine--I'm gone for two bedtimes a week, and she goes down easily without me. The stroller, sling, and just walking around the darkened house have been the best methods.