How to stop breastfeeding to sleep?

As the title says, how have people stopped bfing to sleep?? My daughter literally will.not.sleeep unless on my boob and I've ended up cosleeping out of desperation. Has anyone successfully broken the feed to sleep association without stopping bfing all together? I'd like to bf until she's a year, but I can't imagine continuing this sleep situation for another 6 months 😕

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I had done it with my son and just started it with my daughter tonight. I just put her down awake and shush and pat instead. There will be tears for a few days but in my opinion its worth it and my son had started sleeping through after it. x

If I feed my little one during the bedtime routine, I make sure to stop her from falling asleep until she unlatches, and then I always sing the same nursery rhyme between the feed and putting her to bed to break the boob/sleep association. Seems to have worked for us. Initially I had to sing/pat/shush her to sleep but over time I've been able to reduce this and don't need to touch her at all now x

Yes I would feed her right after a nap she’s on the bottle now but try your best to sooth her to sleep by rocking and placing a Muslin next to her face when I was still bf that’s how I transitioned now she eats between her naps x

We had to go cold turkey, took about 3 unsettled nights for her to get used to it, but she got there, we do the feed at the start of our bedtime routine now. 💕

Thanks for all the ideas ladies xx

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