[Ozziehoffy]

Oooh I went through the same thing!! I weaned Oskar at 19 months cos I was pg and it was hurting to feed him. I dropped morning one first and that was the easiest for sure. Then the nap one and tried cuddles which worked for about a week and it took months I reckon before he'd go down without too much of a fight OR I'd drive him to sleep then transfer into his bed and now he's pretty good and goes down easily most of the time. Bed time was definitely the hardest! He would do what your little fella is doing. We started doing warmed cows milk cos it works in a similar way with sleepy hormones and reading books, then he'd lay on his fold out lounge and one of us would sit there patting him bum until he went to sleep. That was fine for a couple of months then he was trying to get up and run off or wanted to see tv or whatever it was so we transferred to him in his cot and we had to lay on the bed and "pretend" to sleep so he would go to sleep until eventually he went down on his own. It was a really long process to be honest and made up of baby steps. These days (mostly) he walks up to bed himself and is happy to go about 9pm.

He does still nap during the day - usually on average 1 1/2 - 2 hours and usually around 2-4pm.

I hope I've answered something?? I'm not going to sugar coat it or lie, but it was a difficult and a time consuming journey made up of baby steps as I mentioned before. It's not easy I guess for a little one to jump out of their comfort zone like that BUT they do cope and they do adjust. As for asking for boob, from about a month before Elijah was born Oskar started to ask for it every now and then and at times now he does too. I've let him try so he doesn't feel like he's missing something and funnily enough he doesn't even remember how to "suck" it. So he'd only been weaned about 4 months - found that interesting.