Breastfeeding to sleep
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@Lydia great thankyou!! That helps alot
I'm in the same boat we feed to sleep and at night is the same 🙄
Both my boys feed to sleep, I fed my now 4 year till he was 2 so he fed to sleep till he was 2 years old. I never managed to put him down when he was drowsy, even if I fed earlier he would fall asleep on the boob. However, when he was 9 months we sleep trained him using the ferber method so he would feed to fall asleep but then not wake up in the night for a feed so it didn't matter that he fed to fall asleep.
@Fatima what’s the Ferber method?
My 3 year old still feeds to sleep. I thought about stopping a few times. But it's the quickest and easiest, most effective way of getting him to sleep. So now I feed him and his baby sister to sleep, sometimes at the same time...
I’ve just recently done the transition and she’s sleeping way better for it. I feed her, burp her then I’ll stand up and rock her to sleep then place her in her cot. She’s gone from waking up every few hours to once/twice a night. The first time we did this my partner did the rocking to sleep so she wouldn’t be close to the milk
We're still doing it and hoping to transition away from it when they are about 6 months. A breastfeeding consultant gave this advice in a support group about stopping gently: cuddle them to sleep which is the easiest way to transition away from feeding to sleep. Even that may be too big a step. You can try some smaller steps first. Try to end the feed when they're very drowsy but not fully asleep and cuddle that last bit Once that's working do a shorter feed so they're just calm and then cuddle to sleep. You could then move the feed to earlier in the bedtime routine and cuddle to sleep. Then it'll be much easier to drop it completely. Once you have worked on stopping feeding to sleep you can then move towards not needing to cuddle to sleep by using pop-outs. So cuddling and then popping out for something and coming back again, getting them used to feeling safe and secure in bed on their own. I think that's when they're a bit older.