DS is 10 months & has been feeding to sleep for both naps & night time sleep since he was 2-3 months old. it sort of just happened and i've been happy with it because it's been the only way we've managed to get him to sleep that doesn't involve any screaming.
in the last 2 days he has fed to sleep for his nap but has either woken up & started howling as soon as i have taken him off the breast or as soon as i put him down. he sleeps in our bed (poor DP was evicted to the spare room about 4 months ago). and he just won't settle for me afterwards - i've tried patting, rocking, lying next to him & feeding lying down & he doesn't want to know about it & either screams or gets hyper.
DP managed to rock him to sleep yesterday for one nap but it took a while & he only slept for 40 mins & that was it for the whole day.
i feel so bad that i can't even settle my own baby
i'm not sure what to do now? will he get used to being put to sleep another way? will he ever nap again? i knew he'd probably grow out of it at some point but i'm not ready!!
DD is starting to not feed to sleep either very sad as it works so well, we've had to start rubbing back aand shhhing now, its probably for the best for us, but like you im not ready, mind you its a newish thing for DD as she only started doing it this year!
it's a nightmare, isn't it? i always felt that even if his naps weren't for very long, that we had such a good system going & he always had his two naps a day at fairly predictable times. i have been meaning to try & wean him off it but have been procrastinating. that'll teach me!
i just don't know what to do now! i'm not sure how long it should take for him to settle if he's not feeding to sleep. he gets really angry or hysterical if i try to get him to sleep any other way. he's tired now - he usually gets tired 2 hours after getting up - but won't feed to sleep. i tried patting, shhing, rocking & he just goes bananas. now he's playing quite happily & i don't want to try anymore because he has swimming & we need to leave in about 50 minutes.
oh big hugs honey.... i willk soon be in this boat too i think. i had dramas stoping feeding DS1 to sleep and never had to with DS2 (he never fell asleep feeding)... until the last week when he feeds to sleep...
last night he would not feed to sleep and was hystrerical... i am lost too!
is this the end of feeding to sleep?
i knew he'd probably grow out of it at some point but i'm not ready!!
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very sad as it works so well, we've had to start rubbing back aand shhhing now, its probably for the best for us, but like you im not ready, mind you its a newish thing for DD as she only started doing it this year!
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