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Syncletica
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a 14 1/2 month old? Or, at least, to get him to sleep through the night? I am expecting #6 now, and he still wakes up about 3 times throughout the night. I can't let him cry it out b/c there are 2 other children in there. My first 3 slept through the night at about 10 months old, using 'cry it out' for about 3 nights. The fourth weaned himself and slept through the night at around 7 months. This one is a different one altogether.
Any ideas? The nursing seems more for comfort than nourishment....
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I tend to nurse small babies to sleep.. but older ones I will nurse right before bed but put to bed before they fall asleep.. I try and catch them at first when they're all but asleep and barely notice that they're put to bed. But space that out a bit more so that they're used to going to sleep on their own without needing to nurse.
Also, have you tried other comforting.. I know there've been times I'd just automatically nurse a waking child.. and yet if I let myself wake up more.. I could just soothe them with a light back rub or patting and they'd go right back to sleep.. especially if they didn't really wake up that much to start with.
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The "no Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers" has a lot of great ideas for helping them learn to sleep through the night.
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I used the count down method.
"You may nurse for the count of 10."
Then count as quickly or slowly as you need for your sanity.
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I'm kind of in your shoes too (though not preg.) I've got a 13 month old whose still nursing at night and I REALLY want to be done with night nursing. I'm up 3 to 4 times every night between her and the 2 year old using the bathroom or whatever.  And they sleep together, so crying-it-out won't work, and patting her back just makes her madder and louder. . .
Anyways, no help, Syncletica just a "me too" 
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Can you try sending Daddy in to soothe him for one of the times he wakes? Or try humming or singing or stroking his hair while you nurse him, training him to see those things as comforting, and then in a week or so, try totally replacing the nursing with the other technique.
I had some kids who slept through the night easily and others for whom the night nursing dragged on and on until I felt like I couldn't take it any more. Sometimes just finding some idea to try, even if it didn't work, gave me back some sense of control and took away that feeling that I was at the mercy of this child who needed more than I could give. So maybe just trying some of the suggestions you get will help the situation.
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