Stepping away from fed to sleep

I love feeding my baby to sleep and him going off into a dozy milk cuddle but his bottles don’t always fall in line with his naps and I’ve been reluctant to offer additional feeds just to get to sleep alongside weaning (he’s a big boy and I constantly get comments about it ☹️)

For our first nap today, his bottle was an hour before so I knew I couldn’t re feed so we had a Muslin to cuddle, back tickles and I sung lullaby’s! He went off to sleep!!! A little bit of moaning but a million miles off upset. Feel like super mama!

Ps - nothing wrong with sleep training or feeding to sleep!! Just doing what works for us 💓

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Go you! Hope it is an easy transition for you. Xxx

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Love this! Well done you 🫶🏼 I'm starting to want to get away from feeding to sleep so I needed to see this. All the best with your journey xxx

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My baby is moving towards feeding to sleep and I'm not sure what to do about it. He always used to feed and then settle on my shoulder during a final burping/lullabye but now he literally wants to be asleep on the boob and I have to sneak my boob out and hope he doesn't notice. Sometimes, only bedtimes, he'll kick off at being put down and won't stop unless I put him back on the boob for a few more minutes 🙄 Part of me loves the fact he's getting so much comfort from the boob but I don't want to create a problem that he wasn't doing before...

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