Hi mummas!
Those of you who breastfeed, how do you get baby to sleep please?
My baby will only nurse to sleep. Then I have to creep him into bed like a little ninja. If he even slightly wakes, his eyes ping open and we are back to square one with him smiling, trashing his arms & legs excitedly!
If he wakes in the night, it’s always a feed back to sleep situation!
Any advice to move away from nursing to sleep please?
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I would love to know this too as I always feed to sleep! I don't really know what to do otherwise!

I feed to sleep, hold her for about 10 minutes before laying her down, I make sure her bum hits that mattresses first and lean my body in as much as I can which is harder now she's on the lowest setting 😂

During the day he gets put down awake, and he lays down himself and happily settles himself to sleep.
Overnight I feed him to sleep.

I also would love to know, as we feed to sleep too. If he wakes during the transfer, then that's it, he's super excited and awake. 🤦♂️

My baby is the same and he starts nursery soon and I just do not know how they’re going to get him to sleep 🥹

Same over here 👋 x

This may be an unpopular opinion but I did sleep training (Ferber) and I’ve never looked back 😭 I found it completely changed his sleep routines. He now doesn’t associate feeds with sleep thankfully. But it doesn’t help when he gets up at 4am and I try and feed him back to sleep so I can get a bit more shut eye 🫠 so pros and cons I guess. That’s just what worked for us anyway

- so with ferber, you feed the baby and the put the baby in his cot/bed before he dozes off completely? Is that correct?
I have been contemplating ferber because my LO absolutely does not sleep without nursing, even if she wakes up for any reason (not hunger). me picking her up and comforting her is not good for her, she calms down only at the boob. So, I wonder if Ferber will help. I am scared of letting her cry though, because she just goes on and on
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