in January 2024 Babies 🇺🇸

Is anybody out theree ????

My son will be 14 months in a few days. He doesn’t sleep in his crib he sleeps in bed with me ….. still. We have a crib for him but he will scream for hours on in when hes in it. And he screams very very loud for a baby. U can hear him from outside screaming. He still relies on being breastfed to sleep. He doesn’t sleep without being breastfed. He will NOT go to sleep for bed unless its around 12AM. He also never sleeps longer than 2 hours without waking up. 👎🏽We are moving soon so he will finally have is own room but im planning to TRY to just put him in his crib at night & just let him scream to sleep. I am mentally drained. Very much. My partner goes to work at night so its just me and baby. He makes me feel bad that hes almost 14m old and not sleeping independently. Alot of things are weighing down hard on my mind i feel like screaming. I have always seen women say breastfeeding takes a mental toll on them & i never understood it but not im at that point in my motherhood. Its starting to make me feel feelings i dont like.

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I am right there with you. My daughter will be 14months on the 12th and still relies on being breastfed to sleep or else she won’t sleep she’ll just scream and will only sleep with me and I’m honestly drained as well she has her own room and bed but won’t sleep in it will only sleep with me and HAS to have a breast to sleep. I NEED HELP so here for the comments

My son and I cosleep sometimes on our nap during the day and I breastfeed him to sleep but for his night stretch he gets a bottle before bed and sleeps all night. Since i breastfed I’ve switched him from a crib to a floor bed when he turned 1 so I can slip away when he fell asleep but before I did that I made sure to reduce the night time feedings to only once before he sleeps all night like if he finished his bottle and still was awake I’d bf him and then slip away when he fell asleep. Another thing is make sure they’re full so there’s no reason for them to keep waking up, and he will wake up out of habit in the beginning but you just got to redirect them back to sleep without the boob and what I did was rock him to sleep while rubbing his back or hair and sing his fav songs and he would kick and cry for about 5 minutes but you just got to push through and he will calm down but he will begin to understand the change as you repeat it over and over.

The boob is part of their “routine” so you have to change the routine and get them used to a new one. You can’t do it and then give in sometimes when you’re changing it up because it will make them think crying worked so that’s how they will get it, they’re smart. So come up with a plan and stick right by it. It will be rough at first but so worth it.

My 13 month old won’t sleep in his crib either 😭 and our bed is tall so I’m always terrified he’s going to crawl off when we are asleep. I never co slept with him as a newborn but as soon as he was too big for his bassinet he has slept with us because he just screeeeams and i just can’t do the whole “let him cry it out” I’ve tried and after 10 minutes I’m getting him right back out.

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