Not agreeing with hubby or pedi...

Brittany

I'm asking for help and advice so please no snarky comments..

Currently I'm not agreeing with my husband or pediatrician on helping our daughter who just turned one on Wednesday on getting her to sleep through the night by crying it out... I'm still nursing her and I always wanted our daughter to self wean herself, but sometimes I don't know if that's going to happen because she soothes herself with the boob. She wakes up at least 5-6 times during the night and I have expressed to my husband I can't just cut her off the boob cold turkey for the whole night and how I should cut out certain feedings. She's also teething and fussing pretty bad sometimes because she isn't getting what she wants or she's just hungry... I also try to tell my husband that's her way of telling us if she's hungry, hurting from teething, etc. But yesterday he just let her cry it out... it breaks my heart and just gives me so much anxiety. I know she's going to cry I've accepted that a long time ago. Myself personally going through postpartum I feel like I've struggled with so much anxiety because I was in my Senior year of Art College when I got pregnant.. no one in my family believed I could graduate on time and balance my daughter and school, but I came out on top and did graduate. I'm now starting to look for work to help support my husband and I'm just so anxious on how my daughter is going to be without self soothing with the boob during the day/night and getting her on a stricter bedtime routine by cutting out some of nightly feedings.

I'm mainly looking for help and support on any other suggestions than using the cry it out method to help my daughter to sleep, and how to cope with anxiety other than getting on meds.... preferably natural remedies.