My DD is one on Thursday and is going to child care in January so I thought we would start dropping feeds to ease her off the breast (and because I am almost 12 weeks pregnant and it is taking it out of me). She isn't usually too interested in the feed before lunch so we have dropped that feed and I didn't give her a feed mid afternoon today and she didn't indicate she wanted any. The only thing is the last few days she hasn't been drinking much water. I have given her a little bit of cows milk in a bottle (she has it in her cereal anyway) but she doesn't really drink it. What can I do as I'm worried she will get dehydrated?

The other issue is that she wakes at least 3 times a night and she will only usually go back to sleep if I give her a little feed and sleeps in my bed. I tried to give her water but she slaps it out of my hand. I think having milk overnight has become a habit for her and I'm usually on auto pilot and give it to her. She doesn't really suck much and isn't on there for long. I don't know how I'm going to break this habit as she screams the house down if I try and settle her without feeding. Any ideas?