Baby needs nursing to fall asleep

Definitely not a concerning looking baby weight wise! He looks healthy to me. Afraid I have no advice on how to get him to fall asleep without boob as some sleeps my daughter is the same but others she pushing the nipple out and just falls asleep. Or sometimes requires rocking/swaying to sleep. I don’t mind any of this as she’s only little once ♥️

Sounds completely normal! So hard though. Nursing to sleep is often the easiest way to get them back to sleep which is why so many people do it. I didn’t night wean my son until 17 months and kept nursing to sleep for nap time and bedtime until he was 22 months!

He’s a perfect little chunk😍 my son only sleeps with the boob and wakes up often needing the boob at night and I’m not concerned at all BUT if you are concerned I would ask his pediatrician. My personal piece of advice: keep doing what you’re doing and stay away from any type of sleep training❤️

It's really hard to overfeed a breast fed baby, fyi. And they'll move away from feeding to sleep on their own, in their own time, so don't worry about that! I focus on keeping bedtime relaxed and calm and if she's tired, she'll sleep.

Thank you mamas! ❤️❤️❤️ My mind is calmer already! 🥰

What a beautiful healthy boy!!! Sounds like you’re doing amazingly. Nothing to worry about at all 🧡

I agree with Melissa. Over feeding a breastfed baby is rare. What a good looking chunk!!

I wouldn’t be concerned! He looks like a happy healthy baby! If you’re feeling okay with the wake up calls in the night then i definitely wouldn’t change anything! I breastfed for 9/10 months and my daughter was the same, wouldn’t fall asleep without latching even if she didn’t want to eat she’d just do it for comfort. They know where their bread is buttered🫣🤣. He will grow out of it eventually lovely xx

I have the same issue as you so I understand how tiring it can be. Not to mention sad for everyone else because only you can soothe them. My partner hates that he can’t rock our baby to sleep. I did speak to a sleep therapist and she said it’s common that breastfed babies don’t have full feeds, they just snack as and when they are hungry. Because they do that in the day, they often do it at night too. Her only advice was to try and wait until baby is really actually hungry rather than feeding them just as they’re getting peckish. Gradually you can increase time between feeds in the day and that should translate to the night time. I’m yet to see if that works though. Best of luck either way x

My lo never slept without being nursed to sleep until we had cut out bf completely

Sounds normal. Probably not very reassuring but my boy is still the same at 16 months, it can definitely be hard so my advice would be to try and introduce a bottle of expressed milk and try get his dad to put him to sleep every now and again so you're not completely stuck till weaning. There's so much about sleep training and sleeping through the night and conflicting advice on teaching baby to fall asleep on their own, but personally none of it seems natural to me so I've stuck it out being there for him and doing what works for us and if you feel the same, then stick with it and don't worry about what's the norm ❤️

You have won! Cutest baby ever! 😍😍😍

My daughters 2 in June and she still wakes every 2-3 hr for boob thru night and has always fell asleep in boob since birth, she now weighs 12.7kg and always been a chunky baby nothing wrong with it but my daughter never fell asleep any other way other than in her pram if they were too full they'd spit it up x

No such thing as too much boob! Most biological natural thing you can do is nurse them to sleep ❤️

@Vicky he's a very cheerful baby ❤️ Some days are harder than others. I'll stick with it as long as I can. We'll see if I'll last until he decides that's enough mama, I'm a big boy now 😁 They definitely know where the goodies are 🤣 Thanks xx

He’s happy and healthy. My daughter was like this too, my husband was able to get her to sleep with a bottle or a walk if I wasn’t there. But otherwise we always nursed to sleep, around maybe 18 months she grew out of nursing to sleep so my husband would cuddle with her after she nursed until she fell asleep.

@Char yes, some nights are crazy tiring 🙈🥴. That's my other concern, at some point we'd like to leave him with grandparents for example, but I'm not sure how would it go 😬 During the day, most of the time, I'll try to drag it out as long as possible and actually during the day it's not that bad now. It's worse during the night. He just wakes up and becomes fussy until I give him the boob. Thanks xx

@Gabriele I've actually said this to my partner that we'll have to try it out. We'll give it a go. I know, I've seen so many things about sleep training. Tbh I don't think it's something that we'll do. It just doesn't seem right to me. I'll just have to take day by day, step by step and hope for the best 😊🤞 Thanks xx

@Emily I know 🥹. Thank you! ❤️🥰😍

@Courtney hah, I guess not 😁. Thank you ❤️ x

My first was the same and I thought she would never stop! She also never took a bottle so it felt like everything was on me and it is hard. She gradually became more flexible as she got older and I was always amazed that when I wasn't there she could be put to sleep other ways with other people e.g. rocking and singing with her dad, lying on a mat with bum taps at nursery etc. I never did any kind of sleep training but it just gradually improved with my partner trying every now and then to put her to sleep and i would sometimes leave the flat as I think she could smell the milk when I was there! Good luck, keep it up and it will get better. ❤️

It actually makes seance, if they feel us near by, they want us. If we're not there, they have no choice but falling asleep another way. Thank you @Jessie ❤️. We'll try it out.

I love feeding to sleep. It's similar now but when mine was 3-6 months I could only do that half the time and the other times he came off when full and needed rocking and singing. I always sing the same song so he has a sleep association with it and I don't sing it at any other time. I sang it in the womb but you can start now while feeding to sleep sing when you see he is falling asleep. Then he will associate sleeping with the song and you can start to try taking him off boob before he is fully asleep and rocking and sing the song. Helps to darken the room a bit too I wouldn't worry about the 98th centile I don't think you can over breastfeed a baby

Also I was at work today (1 day a week) and he fell asleep (for afternoon nap) on a bottle of my expressed milk so that's possible for grandparents too. I don't write down the time of the pump but maybe it was something I pumped on the evening which has more Melatonin so you could try to pump for your freezer stash in the evening if grandparent overnight is the goal. I'm not sure how compatible EBF is with nighttime separation though

If he's only breastfed he can't really be overfed. He's probably absolutely fine. He looks very happy and healthy in any case. I'm the wrong person to ask as I nursed my boy to sleep until forever! My 1st (daughter) was EBF until 7 months then combifed and gradually bottles and my 3rd is 1yr old and we are still BF but letting trying all different foods as he wishes. He really just wants the comfort and if he can get a feed at the same time. It will probably look pretty much the same for a while. Don't look for much change from that for now and it will allay your concerns.

Thank you very much for all the suggestions, you all beautiful mamas! 💖 None of the mamas around me face this, therefore I thought I'm the odd duck who's facing it. I feel a bit calmer already, knowing that there are many mamas who are in the same boat as me, plus I realised that it's all about a perspective.. I'm going to look at it as a privilege, an opportunity to have a deeper bond, rather than a chore (you know on those days when it's tough). 😍

@Sintia very much the same. When it's hard, I remind myself that she won't be a baby forever and that I'll miss these days of contact napping and cuddling when she's a teenager rolling her eyes at me saying "cool story, mom." 😅