Comfort Feeding

This is horrendous horrendous advice. As you say, feeding to sleep and for comfort is absolutely the biological norm and the modern world has lost sight of this massively. We expect small babies to be independent way beyond their years (and even months in a lot of cases). I will comfort nurse and feed to sleep as long as my baby wants/ needs x

I hate seeing stuff like this when I Google something. I also don't have a problem with people sleep training - as long as it's an informed decision. Information like this being presented as fact takes that away from vulnerable mothers. It just makes me so angry and sad. 😔 I'm so glad I followed my intuition instead of doing what Google said to do.

That looks like one of the AI generated answers? Those are always going to be a bit questionable, especially around anything where people have strong opinions in opposing directions. In my opinion it’s better to have the attitude of “if it’s working fine for you, continue on. if you're having a tough time or are getting miserable or frustrated, then its time to make a change." I think some experts are like "oh youll be "locked into" nursing to sleep if you do it all the time, so if you decide you want to sleep train you have to break the nursing to sleep and thats hard". but of course sleep training is going to be hard regardless! And it's nice to have the baby ok with being put to sleep other ways so someone other than mom can get them to sleep… but nursing to sleep is fine if it's working for the family.

🤣 never ask a robot what a mothers job is. Nursing to sleep and comfort nursing are some of the most natural things to do.

I’ll always try and settle him without nursing if he wakes during the night but if he won’t settle without it I just nurse him to sleep. It’s so normal and this shouldn’t even be on the internet, it shouldn’t be the first thing first time mothers see if they look up comfort nursing 🤦🏼‍♀️😭

I saw something like this when I was looking into what was "normal" with feeding around 5 or 6 months since other moms with babies around the same age didn't feed their babies to sleep for naps anymore but that's what my baby was doing. And our pediatrician tried telling me to stop feeding at night around that same time. I was so stressed since my baby would only go to sleep with me if I nursed him. After trying to change the behavior for a couple of naps, with no success, I decided I really didn't mind feeding to sleep. Especially since it worked so well for us and was the quickest way for me to put him to sleep. Dad can rock him to sleep most of the time if I'm not available. But if I'm around he wants that comfort he can't get from anyone else.

I did it with my first because it is the easy option in the middle of the night being tired and i loved the bond but i will say when you do stop breastfeeding it is hard. They associate sleep with it and then she would only want me if i wasnt around so then you have to find other ways to then get her to sleep (like holding/rocking or sleep training). It does just depend on the person but i was sick my whole second pregnancy and it was difficult to get her to sleep after that and she still needs my help to fall asleep which i dont mind but days can be hard when you have two who need you.

Google AI pulls info from a number of websites to generate these answers. This is just a reflection of how much horrible and untrue information exists out there.

I fed both my babies to sleep and my first slept through from about 6 months and my second about 11 months- never sleep trained. Do what works for you and your family

My boy is nearly 10 months old and I’ve not slept since. I’m exhausted and he’s at an age where he definitely just uses my breast as a dummy as he associates it with falling asleep, with recent hourly wakes! I’m definitely at a stage where I want to create new associations and want him to fall asleep without boob! I’m gradually reducing interventions so for now feeding him awake in a bright lit room and then rocking him to sleep… I admire mums who are happy to be awake for 2 years or so but I physically cannot anymore.

I will also add that I think those frequent feeds at night give him a tummy ache and longer term they must be bad for his teeth. I think nowadays sleep training is not what everyone thinks and you can definitely do it very slowly and gradually create new associations (hopefully as I’m about to find out). So it depends how you interpret it. Every baby is different and you have to go with your instincts as you know them the best.

Do what works for you! 😩 I so badly wish I listened to by baby in the beginning, I listened to the advice and tried laying baby down awake but sleepy, never worked, tried to sleep train but daughter would cry so hard she’d vomit. I then decided to do what works for us and just nursed to sleep, contact napped, and coslept for EVERY SINGLE nap/bedtime after that. Guess what we all got sleep and stopped stressing. My daughter is 3yo now and falls to sleep when we read her books 🤷🏼‍♀️ You are giving your child comfort, and all getting sleep, you will never regret that. ❤️ sending Love Mama.

Absolute bloody nonsense 🙄🙄

From what I understand a baby’s brain can’t even self soothe until 3 months anything before that is just them being that exhausted they sleep on there own

My baby is 3 months and it seems like he’s started to self soothe on his own when he’s just laying down chilling he’ll fall asleep for like a week now

Bad advice. Comfort feeding is natural and normal and really helpful for things like teething