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If it's making you anxious I'd take it as a sign that you're both not ready 🥰 gentle parenting and infant mental health specialists recommend breastfeeding overnight until at least 18m and ideally to 2 and beyond. Mine is nearly 3 and we haven't even thought about the weaning process yet, especially overnight. There is no guarantee that sleep will get better if you wean, and you lose your best strategy for getting them to sleep!
@Crystal oh my goodness this just made me feel better. Everyone around me keeps telling me I’ve breastfed for too long😂😭. And it’s not even like she breastfeeds through the day. It’s only at night and during nap time.
@Marisa hmm thank you!! I’ll also try telling her no milk and offer water instead and see how it goes! Were you feeding to sleep?
My almost 16 month old is still nursing. She wakes once a night most nights, but I'm trying to stop nursing just at night. The first few days, I always offered water, and it was 50/50 of she chugged it or was angry that I even offered. I also noticed that if I verbally acknowledged "no milk" she'd be more upset, but she'll settle i just shh and rock her a little. It takes longer to settle her without nursing, but she's also in a phase where she wants to be rocked completely to sleep rather than put down drowsy.