Still feeding to sleep

Same. Except I’m not comfortable with Ferber and she’s so small, I don’t want to put her through it.

It’s very normal, it’s just really hard on us mums.

My little girl was the same, I started feeding her 30 mins before bed, changing her and putting her down I give her a comforter to distract her from crying, then take it away when she’s asleep. She has managed to learn how to self soothe without any sleep training, it is so hard but it will be worth it. It needs some real patience and at times you will feel like you can’t do it but you can!! X

Self soothing/self settling is really temperament based, so some babies will find it easier than others. I really recommend the book The Nurture Revolution, as it goes into the neuroscience behind this.

I’ve found this comment strangely reassuring. My baby can barely go an hour and a half without waking and needing to be fed back to sleep. It really is just down to temperament and luck.

@Catherine thats reassuring if so! She used to be able to go to sleep as I put her down drowsy, but ever since she turned 5m it's like she knows and doesn't like being left alone. I'll try to check out this book, ty!

she sleeps pretty well, she's just gone through a regression and teething so she's been waking up a lot, but she does sleep longer stints now. She wakes anywhere between 1-4 times. So I'm inclined to keep feeding to sleep.
One thing that did work is putting her on her side if she cries straight after being put down. Seems to comfort her a lot. But as soon as she rolls over she wakes herself up haha

My daughter is nearly 7 months and ebf. She has to feed to sleep and still wakes frequently. When she wakes the first time I just co sleep. She normally sleeps 9-2/3am and then in with me until 7:30am. It’s the only way she will settle back down; if I feed her and try to put her back in her bed she will not have it at all. When my mum has had her over night she’s completely different. I think it’s because she knows I’m there and can smell me x

Finding this thread quite comforting right now - my LG is also 6 months, I nurse to sleep and co-sleep because that's how she can sleep at home or with car journey or carrier. I can transfer her to the NTM for the first night sleep of about 3 hours then she's in bed with me waking every 1-2 hours and needing to be fed back to sleep. I keep thinking I'm failing to teach her how to self settle and that it will be tough in future - getting her to sleep in a crib/her own room seems so far away! I've never been able to put her down "drowsy but awake" and comforting techniques don't work for her - shushing (only works on your shoulder), bum patting, pressure etc, she never took to a dummy. She realises where she is, wakes up and cries til I fish her out and give her boob. I'm stuck trying to figure out my next move and how to do right by her. Will get the book recommended!

I could have written the exact same 😅