Night wakings
help!
My baby is about to turn 11 months & the sleep regression for the past month has been harddd.
Since 7.5 months, she has been sleeping through the night. Usually around 12 hours. She started doing this completely on her own. She will fall asleep independently, but sometimes she would fall asleep nursing. However, naps are independent and bedtime is 50/50.
Around 10 months, she started having 1 waking a night and early rising, which progressed to ~2 wakes a night. Recently she will wake up between 4-5a, but goes back to sleep until wake up time. It started when teething & walking, but it’s been about 4 weeks now with no end in sight. The *problem* is that she absolutely will not fall back asleep in the night without nursing. Both myself and my husband have tried just soothing her but she screams & screams until we give in (we’ve made it 45 min at most). Dad tried sips of water & a bottle during two separate wake ups last night and she refused both. Allll she seems to want is the boob. And she does eat as much as she can each time, but clearly wasn’t hungry enough to take a bottle.
So how do I break this nursing sleep association?? I have transitioned the last few days to not let her fall asleep nursing at bedtime, but she‘s never had much issue with that. I just don’t understand why the sleep association is therec in the middle of the night, but not at bedtimes.