Sometimes DS will feed to sleep other times he won't. When he's finished his last feed before bedtime (whether he's fallen asleep or not) it's in to his cot for sleep!
DS has just turned 2 and is still feeding to sleep, he really only feeds at nap time and bed time and when he wakes in the morning, he can and does occasionaly just go to sleep with out it though.
DD still BF to sleep now at 20 months. We can get her to sleep if she's tired by just lying with her though and if she wakes up in the night. So I think the transition will go ok. I'm planning on trying to get her to start going to sleep without a BF soon before the next baby comes.
P fed to sleep at night and for daytime naps when I was at home (I had to return to work when she was 8mo) until she was 13 months. And that only changed because I chose it. We night weaned at that time.
I agree that feeding to sleep is soooooo much easier than anything else! But we were having other issues overnight and I felt I needed to night wean for other reasons. Then we weaned altogether at 14 months. Is sad - there are times when I wish I could just whip out a boob and settle her down.
At night, ds was still BF to sleep at 14 months, and then he stopped. Whether it was from moving house, or it was just his time, I don't know. I cried.
Thank you all for your contributions Did you find that night waking only stopped once you stopped feeding to sleep?
Cass72 - have you always popped him in the cot from the beginning? Does he go to sleep okay then?
Snacks - what method did you use to night wean? Did it take long/was it hard?
Sconeonamission - I'm sorry you found that change hard
We still do it. Mostly it is great, sometimes it is annoying. Never as annoying as trying to make them go to bed, because lets face it - a two year old NEVER wants to go to bed. It's pretty much torture for me to get her to sleep at night without feeding her... So yeah... I thought she was growing out of it and actuall weaning a few months ago, turns out I was WRONG!
She started sleeping through this time last year. No corelation between feeding to sleep. She just started sleeping through for the first time EVER. She stopped sleeping through about two months ago when we all got pretty sick. She now wakes up once a night, around 3am, and calls out for us, and then she comes into our bed.
I will say though, anyone else can get her to sleep without feeding. Just not me.
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Did you find that night waking only stopped once you stopped feeding to sleep?
So yeah... I thought she was growing out of it and actuall weaning a few months ago, turns out I was WRONG!
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