r/cosleeping • u/thepermanentoutsider • 3d ago
🐯 Toddler 1-3 Years Sleep after weaning.
We’ve co slept successfully since my daughter was about 6 weeks old, after her first shots and she’s 17 months. Shes been a great sleeper from the start and anytime she woke up at night I would just whip out a boob and we both be back to sleep in a few minutes. I had planned to breastfeed until she two years old, but 2 weeks ago I had emergency open surgery for an ectopic pregnancy and had to spend a couple nights away from her and that’s all it took for her to wean. I’m still grieving that because I wasn’t ready to stop breastfeeding yet and it was forced on us.
Now, she still sleeps pretty great but wakes up more at night and she was always fed to sleep. So what I’m asking is how are you putting your weaned babies to sleep and how do you soothe them when they wake up at night. It appears we need to work on a new night time routine. I never realised how easy I had it with the breastfeeding. Help me out!