Aah yep. Both mine fed frequently overnight for months and months and months.
I night weaned DS at 15 mths when I was 3 mths pregnant with DD, but you know what.. he still woke at night until he was 2 1/2. Whether they are waking for milk or for comfort, both are important needs that we should meet. Sounds like you're doing a great job.
and FWIW I know my kids both still needed those night feeds at that age. No way was it just comfort feeding. In fact that's when they got their best feeds!
I used to just reply with "I don't understand why it worries you.. it's not you waking up at night" since it was mostly my mother that would harp on about it. I think people are so afraid of setting up bad habits with babies... but honestly.. we have had no habits formed from the frequent feeding, cosleeping etc etc that we've done. Unfortunately people need to actually see the results to believe you on that score... but once you prove that there was no rod for your back, it's much easier with the next baby to fob off the silly comments.
ETA: oh... but one thing that really really annoyed me... because we'd chosen not to "train" our babies to sleep all night.. we somehow lost the right to have a tired day and have a whinge. If I even mentioned that we had a bad night and I was really tired, I received little sympathy and it just started up the stupid comments and suggestions of how to make them sleep. argh. Just let me have a vent and feel tired!
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