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So excited to find your website and I just ordered your book! My daughter is 16 months old and we have been dealing with chronic cough, reflux, runny nose, etc. since she was 3 weeks old. We are now dealing with constipation as well. She still breastfeeds before bed and in middle of the night when she wakes up coughing (frequently). Do you think that the breast milk is making it worse? It has been the only thing I have found to comfort her and help her to stop coughing.
Hi Mary,
As loving as you are in providing her with breast milk before bed and in the middle of the night, I highly recommend you consider being good to yourself, stop nursing her at night and I believe she will likely stop coughing as it is likely due to undigested stomach content coming back up. If your daughter is healthy and not underweight, I am pretty sure she is smart and has you trained to continue the nursing in the middle of the night. There is nothing wrong with wanting to be with mommy and being comforted. However,this is the difficult age when you may need to exercise “tough love” and train her by gently reassuring her even if she wakes and then having her get used to soothing herself back to sleep somehow without needing to nurse. Check out my blog on “When Toddlers Wake At Night”. Sleep training is really difficult, almost as hard as denying her the comfort of nursing her. You will have to decide when it is the right time to do so with her. I really encourage families to stop feeding toddlers at least 90 minutes before bed, water is fine. This helps to make sure they are going to sleep on a as empty of stomach as possible, which generally improves sleep. Good luck to you.