Hi...
I'm jenni, mom of 9.5 mo. old Pearce who's been waking in the middle of the night for maybe a week or two (lost count since i'm sleep deprived)...since Pearce won't take a bottle, i usually nurse him (10 min is WAY better than 1.5 hours!)...I did reduce the time nursing,(thank you Kate) he squawked but went right on to bed without pu/pd (something i've never been able to do effectively).
The problem, i can see is my attitude about it all and is related to my grouchiness regarding it.... When Pearce wakes up in the middle of the night, it makes ME grumpy during the day so that little things (Baby's teeth grinding, alarm clocks, etc...)really become big which sets things up in a bad way between dear hubby and me. Mostly, if i would just continue to reduce nursing times, he'd probably learn to go on to sleep because he USED to sleep through the night pretty regularly.
This is something that i KNOW i must change for the sake of peace in our house...it has been MY grouchiness about all this that galvinizes my husband against "teaching a baby to sleep through the night" not the techniques themselves, per se. At any rate, thanks for letting me say all that...now i need to talk with hubby and apologize for being a bear this morning.