feeding to sleep?

[boomba]

Feeding to sleep is the most natural way to get bubs to sleep! We still do it here, although i have a feeling DS is weaning Somenights he stays attched when he is alseep and i have to wake up and detach him! I am going to miss this

I cannot see how feeding to sleep causes bad habits, i have never heard of a 15 year old feeding to sleep lol!

Make sure you do what feels right for you and not what someone is telling you to do! As long as your happy and bubs is happy thats all that matters! Good luck x

[cindyb]

enjoy it while it lasts! I miss it big time with my girls but both are well and truly weaned unfortunately and even now when i lie in bed making up stories with my girls at night, i wish I was able to still do it! Although i love our cuddles the way they are now anyway!

[MamaK]

I feed my DD Seven to sleep. She is only 2 wks old though, but I love it. She doesn't like a dummy, and she can go to sleep in Daddy's arms, but she (and I) just prefer to breastfeed to sleep. At the end of the day, its your decision and if you are happy to continue doing it the way you are, good for you!
I will be quite happy to feed Seven to sleep as long as she wants to, but we are making sure that she recognises a couple of other ways to get to sleep as she gets older.

[Aphrael]

I've fed both my girls to sleep till they worked out their own thing.

I'll be doing it again too with this baby, I see no harm in it and it works!

Cheers,

Beck

[Rahjah]

LOL I have wished DS would feed to sleep! He only feeds to sleep in the nightime, but otherwise, he still relies on me to put him off to sleep. I adore the time with him TBH. Sometimes I let it worry me and then snap out of it and realise that this is the most natural thing in the world - it's only our stupid Western society that promotes distance and management bah blah.

Enjoy the beautiful contact with the little gems while we can, I say!

[Ginger]

i think you'll just find he'll adapt. he may not 'self settle', but i don't see any reason why he couldn't be rocked to sleep in your mum's arms.
i leave my ds with my dad sometimes for a couple of hours and he finds he will either fall asleep out on a walk in the pram, in the sling or sometimes even in the car seat.

[loulabelle]

I feed my DS to sleep every night and nap time.A lot of people say I shouldn't but you know what, it's so much easier for me and him that I don't see why I should stop!I now find that I can't get to sleep unless I have breastfed him, I think it's the happy hormones that get released when you BF.

[aimz78]

wow, thanks for this thread. I went to see the ECHC nurse for 6 month check and of course you know what she said. (she also picked at her cradle cap. . . what the??)
This thread makes me feel so much better about feeding DD to sleep!

[Curly]

LOL I was still doing this until DS was about 18 months! DH could rock DS to sleep in the rocking chair but if it was Mummy putting him to bed DS would want the breast.

We also took the "whatever works" approach.

A couple of factors came into play to stop it in the end...we cut out DS' nap at 18 months because he wasn't going to bed till after 10pm. I got pregnant with Number Two and my breasts became far more sensitive and breastfeeding was not nearly so enjoyable anymore. So because DS was much more tired in the early evening it was easy to settle him off to sleep without the breastfeed.

He was still waking up at night though...so we put him in a big boy's bed with a pillow just to see what happened and he finally started sleeping through. And that was it for the breastfeeding. Now when he wakes up we just bring him into bed with us with his pillow and he snuggles down between us. He would still want a breastfeed at first when he knew I was there but I would just gently say "no" and he would sook for a little bit but would go back to sleep with a cuddle.