I work overnight (only once a week) and it’s starting to become impossible for my husband. Last night she screamed all night for me.

When I’m at home, she’ll breastfeed multiple times throughout the night for comfort. She starts off sleeping in her crib but will wake up multiple times so I bring her into bed with me.

She’s so clingy about breastfeeding and whines for it all day long when I’m around. She doesn’t eat as much solids as I like either. I feel like that would help but she ends up spitting her food out or just playing with it after a few bites.

I truly loved breastfeeding but now it kinda feels like it made everything harder (because she’s so clingy and won’t sleep longer than 2 hours at a time). It was fine until about 9 months (she slept better and I could be away from her without her screaming for me the whole time) but now it’s just impossible.

She use to take a pacifier but started refusing it at 5 months. She wants nothing to do with it now. My husband tries offering her breastmilk in a bottle, a sippy cup, playing music, rocking her, singing, changing her diaper, giving her water. Literally nothing works. She just screams because she wants to breastfeed.

I need help! It’s so bad that I’m seriously considering not breastfeeding my next child. I loved every moment of it until now 😔💔

How do I wean her from breastfeeding or at least get her to sleep without having to breastfeed her all night long? I need to work and this is ruining everything. Cry it out can’t be the only method.

Please only give advice for weaning a baby older than 9 months. It would’ve been much easier to wean prior to that because her preference for it wasn’t this strong so I need advice for weaning a 12 month old that doesn’t understand explanations and such.