I was wondering if anyone else feeds their bubs to sleep? Aurelia is almost 12 months and she still falls asleep on the boob. She didn't always and her sleep has always been terrible so i adopted a 'whatever works' policy. I used to always have her in a routine but every time she cut a tooth or had a growth spurt, it went out the window so I gave up.
yes i do it...
sometimes i get upset about it and think i need to stop, but tbh, we just find it the easiest and most efficient way to get him to sleep. he can go to sleep other ways, but breastfeeding is definitely the quickest. so when i'm tired, over it, can't be bothered- it's the tried and trusted way.
are you getting upset or worried about it neenee?
I know Jacob is heaps younger but he always feeds to sleep and as we r trying to get him to sleep in basinet and not on bed in me it can be a lot of feeds to settle, often more a suck than a feed.
She does have some bears that she loves but they don't really help her to sleep (Carebears are her favourite). To be honest, I don't know if I *should* be worried. I did the whole thing with routine, teaching her (gently) to self-settle, and it all worked - periodically! I guess i'm worried she won't be able to sleep without the breast, eventually (though i'm not planning to wean her).
Oskar used to almost always feed to sleep. He still does now if he's really tired. Mostly though I can now feed him then put him down in a semi awake state and he'll roll over and off to sleep. I think over time it's something they learn to do.
Isabelle always fed to sleep up until we stopped breastfeeding at 11 mths... and now daddy gives her a bottle still and she goes to sleep, or at least gets very drowsy before going to bed. I was thinking the other day that we "should" stop, then thought, well why "should" we! She is happy, we are happy, DH loves his daddy daughter quiet time and if it ain't broke - don't fix it! JMHO!
DD is approaching 12 months and still feeds to sleep for all naps and night time. In fact, it's pretty much the only way I can get her to nap during the day most of the time.
We have nights where she feeds, has a bit of a cuddle and a fluff about and then drifts off to sleep on her own. But I'm happy for either way.
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.
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feeding to sleep?
JMHO!
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