Putting to bed
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My girl is 19mo, still breastfed and cuddled to sleep. I don't see it as a bad habit for us, since we both love it and it maintains such a deep connection and feeling of safety between us
Breastfeeding to sleep here too. You'd have to try some sort of sleep training to get him out of this habit though. Have a Google for gentle sleeping training methods as there are lots to choose from
That’s how I still do mine and she is 15 months old and rock her every time she wakes up at night which could be 3-4 times + while I am pregnant. It is very hard to change it and we are against sleep training so we will follow her cues when she’s ready
I do that with my 1 year old and she’s breastfed 🥲
My boy just turned 1 and he’s always hated being rocked but he does drink the bottle still. We’re trying to transition to a straw cup.
We read books with a sippy cup of milk then I turn on her music/light machine give her some hugs and kisses and put her in her crib and tell her I love her and have a good sleep and then turn off the lights and walk out
You can reduce the need for rocking gradually by layering more associations on top and slowly moving away from rocking x
I gradually stopped rocking my son at about 14 months and managed to get him to fall asleep by shushing / rubbing his back and now he’ll go to sleep himself with me in his room and I just have to shush him a little bit, he sleeps longer stretches now as before he’d be up 4+ times a night
My lo is nearly 17 months i was so worried about this because this is what i was doing. I started doing a mix of water and milk to wean him off the bottle which has really worked well! And then he started asking to be put in his bed rather than being rocked
I still hold my 16mo to feed and have a we cuddle then he goes into bed and settles himself to sleep.
That’s how I still do mine! 🫣