With Daisy it was never an issue. By 10 months she slept in her own cot and woke once per night (around 11pm if I remember correctly) for a feed. She weaned herself off breastmilk before she turned one. One day she just decided she was finished, and never asked for it again. Easy peasy.
The feeding will likely not be a problem with Clara either. She is starting to eat pretty good meals of solids three times per day, and only breastfeeds maybe three times in the day. However, she still feeds like a starving person all through the night. Possibly simply because she sleeps in my bed and has easy access to the good stuff. As of tonight, she will have to sleep in her own cot at least for the first part of the night. I'm not sure what I'll do when she wakes up... if it's only once or twice, I can feed her and put her back in the cot. But of she continues to do every couple of hours, I can't deal with it. She'll have to sleep with me.
I don't mind having her in my bed, in fact it's rather nice to snuggle up with my nose against her little neck in the night. But bwhen I start work I get up at 4.50am, and if I leave Clara in bed with Dwayne she is bound to fall out of it. This is because he would not EVER wake up when she stirs and starts crawling around the bed. I know, because I have more than once witnessed her using him as support when she practices her standing at 2am, and he does not notice, nor does he remember it in the morning. True story, incredible as it might be.
So, the plan is to start training for cot sleeping. She cried very angrily for ten minutes this evening before she gave up and went to sleep in the cot with me patting her back. That's a huge improvement on this morning's nap time, when she screamed bloody murder for 40 minutes and I gave up and put her in the pram, where she fell asleep within two minutes.
Fingers crossed I don't end up spending all night fishing her out of that damned cot.
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