Weaning off the boob begins.

So we have started the weaning process. 1st step to wean him off falling asleep on the boob. I say we I mean I. Gryff said that he would take him once he had had his milk. He obviously started to cry as he is use to falling asleep on the boob. Gryff lasted a whole 2 minutes. Hardly tried to soothe him. It took me an hour of rain noises, rocking, saying "I love you Zac, Night Night, Time to go to sleep." Over and over again, projection moon and star rotating night light and rubbing his back once he was sleepy and laying down. Once he settled and I left the room he fell asleep in under 10 minutes!

Zac is 10 months old next Sunday and I want to slowly start to wean him off the boob my rough schedule is going to be.

In October I am going to wean him off night feeds, November wean him off day feeds so just when he wakes up and just before bed, December I will wean him off morning feeds then January wean him off boob altogether.

When he 1st went into his own room at 6 months old he took maybe 20 max minutes to fall asleep by himself but then the 8 month sleep regression hit when he started crawling and then he got really ill and he is only just recovering now.

At the time I was happy to nurse to sleep and every 1.5/2 hours through the night as his temperature was so high he needed the fluids.

Now he is at the end of his course of penicillin and feeling 100% better it's time to get back in to falling asleep himself.