Breastfeeding to sleep
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@Kerry we were doing the same but no matter what, he wanted to be on breast to fall asleep. Really worried that this is the only way he will fall asleep from now on and it’s also annoying that when he feeds he will always fall asleep because of this!
We did a lot of breast feeding to sleep initially. We’re 10 weeks now and starting to settle in other ways. I don’t feed her every time she wakes overnight and she’s managing well with that. They say habits are hard to break after 12 weeks. You need to do what you works for you right now and you can slowly introduce other ways of sleeping as LO gets a bit bigger. I would try not letting LO fall asleep still sucking but it’s perfectly normal for them to get sleepy whilst feeding.
My boy falls asleep on the boob during the night but during the day he is able to settle with dummy and rocking although it can take a lot of work. I saw a video on TikTok that says as they’re drifting off to sleep on the boob swap boob for dummy as baby has had enough milk and is now using to soothe, I have done this throughout the night and it does work
Following - we started giving a bottle before bed, initially expressed milk and moved onto formula last night, but he will still roots for breast afterwards, even if he’s only on for a couple of minutes before falling asleep. I think it’s for comfort at this point as I’m making sure he’s full which I thought would help!!