Breastfeeding and sleep

My LO is almost one. He has always fed to sleep for naps and night time (unless his in the car)… sleep has always been horrendous if I’m honest we’ve had periods of it being longer stretches but recently it’s gone back to hourly wakes and my son will only settle if he is fed back to sleep and in bed with me. When my mum looks after him while I’m at work he is happily rocked to sleep or sang too but with me he refuses that and only wants the boob and cries unless I give in. I’m happy to feed to sleep that’s not a problem for me to continue past one but everyone is telling me that it’s the reason his sleep is so bad and that I need to stop and I’m just not sure what to do as I honestly can’t deal with the battle of not feeding and him getting upset when I’m so tired and just need any small amounts of sleep I can get. Anyone have experience of weaning at night or didn’t do this and things just got better (Which is what I’m hoping)??

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My daughter stopped feeding at night at 18mo (she had issues with her teeth and we had to go cold turkey at night 100% would not recommend) but she kept waking up at night and sleeping horribly (for few months even worse than before because the weaning was a shock for her). Now she’s almost 4yo and she still doesn’t sleep through the night so I’d say that night weaning doesn’t necessarily means they will sleep better.

I really don't think feeding to sleep is the problem (or a problem at all). Lots of babies still wake at night at 1 and need parental support to sleep. This instagram post might be helpful (and I find the account in general super helpful and non-judgemental): https://www.instagram.com/p/DBuGRCeRTjV/?img_index=3&igsh=MWx4dzExeW91Z2toZQ== And this is her video on night weaning: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBExEzUoskv/?igsh=OXV1MTNnMW9odnhu Of course this is just one person's perspective, but it's one that resonates with me :)

@Simona I thought this would be the case! I’m almost worried to stop incase I make things even harder for myself and have no way to get him back to sleep easily! Thank you for this xx

@Eline thank you so much! I actually love feeding to sleep so glad it’s hopefully not that that’s the issue. Xxx

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