My sixteen months old toddler nurses in bed and very rarely any other time.

We got here by letting her take the lead, which has been really great and worked very well for us. She was born quite small but caught up to her age group's average pretty quickly while EBF. She's been an amazing and awesome baby with very few issues, and has kept surprising us with how much easier life is as a parent than we had expected.

I have never refused nursing her (except when she bites me and I withhold the boobs with explanation for about fifteen minutes, which has happened a couple of times). We've been following the baby's cues, not a clock, since she was born, and that's exactly how we got into co-sleeping this her freely nursing through the night while not even waking up.

Sleeping in one bed gave all of us full nights of sleep, with very little interruption on an average night. I'm happy we chose it.

But this also gives her an opportunity to hold onto my nipples for hours during the night. She rarely does this, but the last two weeks she was a bit sick and kept nursing all through the night and now she just likes holding my nipple between her teeth, sometimes suckling a little but not actually taking any milk. I think she picked up a bad habit. If I pop her off she'll struggle to latch back on, if I refuse she'll wake up crying. But this is giving me seriously sore nipples and I keep waking up and have trouble sleeping like this.

I have no idea how to stop this. At the moment I'm thinking about restricting nursing to _before_ bedtime, which would be night weaning, but I haven't any idea how to go about it.

I know I won't let her cry, that's not an option.

I also can't put her or myself in a different bed or room (we sold our home and are living in my old bedroom at my parents' for a few more months until our new house gets finished, so there's currently no other bed).

Do you more experienced moms have any advice?