Bedsharing Bedtime Routine

Those of you mamas who feed baby to sleep, what does your bedtime routine look like if your baby sleeps for the night way earlier than you do? Do you feed on your bed and slip away once baby is asleep? Or do you transfer them to your bed after they feed and fall asleep on your lap? How do you make this transfer successful?

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I use to always go to bed when she did and just veg out watching TV, now I slip away & go back in as needed

@Abby Thank you Abby. I’m doing what you used to do 😄 Frankly I’m quite enjoying it since I’m still on mat leave. But I realize I will need to do more with my time once I’m back to work hence the questions!

@Sharon soak in the time!! I only started getting up so that I could get sewing done but I'm missing the endless snuggles

@Abby aww this encouragement means so much, thank you! The snuggles are the absolute best 🥰

I feed in my bed around 7pm until she drops off to sleep and stay with her for 45/60 mins until she's in a deep enough state to unlatch. I then slip off until about 11pm when she starts to stir for her dream feed which is when I get into bed anyway. Hope this helps

@Sophie thank you Sophie, this is very helpful!

My LG is 5 months. I had a hard time to discover this routine as all online info is for cot babies and on sleep training. There was little to no chance I could sleep train especially as I'm EBF. I just went in blind and took every day in my stride and followed her cues, eventually her sleeping pattern and needs settled and this works for us... took a lot of tears to get here tho haha. Just follow what feels right for you and baby xx

I used to feed in the living room until asleep. Then I would transfer to bed. I have a massive square pillow that I would lay him after he feel asleep and use to transfer. As he grew, he didn’t need the pillow and I would just transfer slowly. We still co sleep but now he falls asleep on the bed by himself (dark room but I wait off the bed until he sleeps) since we stopped breastfeeding then I join him later.

My little one just turned a year old. For about 6 months now I’ve fed to sleep then slipped away. I normally am always able to get things done for a couple of hours after he goes to sleep and before I do

I always side lie and feed to sleep, then ninja roll away and get up

@Sophie absolutely, that’s the best advice

@Jay thank u for the details! I find it so hard to imagine my LO sleeping off by himself. He only does this in the buggy. How did you get to this stage from feeding to sleep?

Thank you ladies! I’ve just now fed my LO to sleep on the bed. Going to try slipping away now 🤞🏼

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