Hi!
I'll start by saying I don't really know exactly what I want to say so this may end up being a long as I muddle through everything...

DS is 13 months old and we are still breastfeeding and I'm enjoying it thoroughly and want to continue until he is 2 years old unless he chooses to wean himself.

I had a very bad experience at the baby clinic last week when the MCHN essentially said I needed to wean James in order to get him sleeping through the night and also eating three full meals plus two snacks every day!!! I definitely don't agree with that at all!

So I guess I am just wondering what the different experiences are out there of women who are choosing to continue breastfeeding beyond the first year, and what the feeding is like (day and night/breast and solids) for those doing infant led feeding/weaning.

DS is a happy healthy wonderful little boy but he is a VERY frequent waker and I would like to find a way to get some more sleep for him and for me. He wakes on average 6-8 times a night lately but doesn't always ask for boobie. DH can settle him quickly back to sleep most of the time and then we co-sleep about half of the night to try to get DS to sleep longer blocks. He will sometimes sleep a 2-4 hour block in bed with us so it seems to help.

I don't know if he has some sort of food intolerance (we are commencing an elimination diet tomorrow morning), if he finds his bed uncomfortable (he is currently sleeping in a travel cot), if he is teething (8th tooth broke through last week but I can't find any evidence of any more), if it is severe separation anxiety (he was kneeding and pinching my stomach constantly while feeding last night), or some other medical issue (he is due to have his 12 month needles Tuesday so may ask the pediatrician to check him out for other issues at the same time).

I just started using Brauer's Calm last night but didn't see any improvement at all there, and I'm re-reading Pinky McKay's "Sleeping Like a Baby" as well. Any thoughts, comments, advice, whatever, that other people could offer would be greatly appreciated!