Advice on weaning 2yo from night comfort nursing
Hey! I have a 2 year old who I share a bed with, he weaned from breastfeeding in the day really well over a year ago now and without much difficulty as he was big into his solids,but he does still comfort nurse to go to sleep when I do his bed time. Dad can rock him to sleep no problem but if he’s had a particularly hard day he will call out for me and want to nurse which at the moment, I respond to.
We’ve tried me rocking him to sleep which has had varied success with me mostly just ending up nursing him in the end. I’m not even sure he gets much milk really it’s definitely more about the comfort and relaxing before bed. Admittedly, the process is now at a point where it’s not very relaxing and he can be somersaulting over me with my nip in his mouth before bed which can get quite overstimulating for me and it seems it can actually keep him awake. Once he’s been asleep and if he wakes up I can often cuddle him back to sleep and only really need to nurse again if he won’t settle which he usually does to be fair.
Basically, HOW!? How have you done it?? I don’t want to have to not do any bedtimes (Won’t be possible either as there are nights my partner is working and it’s just me)
Thanks in advance!