I'm so glad to know that I'm not the only one who feed bub to sleep!

When I started working, DD was a week shy of turning 3 months, and the only way I could get her to sleep was to feed her to sleep in our bed. I got more sleep, I didn't have to interrupt DD's sleep or spend anywhere up to an hour trying to get her to sleep again if transfer her to her own cot. So I guess you could say we co-sleep and feed to sleep due to necessity (ie, more sleep for both of us!). oh, the cuddles are a bonus!

I used to feel guilty about this, as friends would say that bub will get used to feeding to sleep because I was "creating bad habits". But it worked for us, and it feels nice to be so close to DD, so I kept doing it. I now know that it is the most natural way for babies to feed to sleep, and previous generations have done it for thousands of years. It's Western society which has created this distance between mums and bubs, for the convenience of the parents, based on the belief that babies should be taught to put themselves to sleep. I feel strongly that that belief is a load of cr@p, and I no longer feel defensive about my choice to co-sleep or feed to sleep, because to me it feels like the most beautiful and natural thing to cuddle DD while she feeds.