Bedtime routine

Can people shed light on their bedtime routines, specifically for breast fed babies that feed to sleep. Our routine is not the best and my daughter always is in floods of tears everytime we dress her for bed and cries until she gets on the boob. I would like to form a better routine that gently winds her down without getting upset and eventually would like to stop the feed to sleep association

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I started getting my LG into her pjs downstairs about 60-30 minutes before bed. I found it helped with the crying when getting changed x

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I dont breastfeed but I used to feed a bottle just right before getting my baby to sleep, with a night light in our room so he would fall asleep in my arms just soon after finishing it. I changed that last week as I was brushing his teeth before the bottle so now we do bath/change into pj's on no bath days, then calm play in his room, bottle whilst sitting on the floor in his room, brush his teeth, sleep bag, comes to my bed where we listen to a audio story with the red night light on and he falls asleep in my arms then I transfer. He sleeps through the night, unless he is ill.

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I breastfeed my little boy to sleep and would like to stop this also but no idea where to start. We aim for bed between 7-7:30 but it’s flexible depending on his last nap. Usually do dinner at 5 and then bath and into pjs and a little play before I take my toddler to bed at 6:30. We do a story in my toddlers bed and I start feeding then. My toddler usually falls asleep before 7 and then I either just stay there feeding or move to another room and finish the feed. My little boys last wake window is 3 hours and I find I need to start feeding at 2.5 hours or he gets really upset.

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When you find out how to stop the feed to sleep association let know.

I need to get better with times, but our routine is
dinner > calm play > bath > book > boob to sleep (sadly this involves us on a mattress on her bedroom floor before transferring to cot)

I am currently trying to take my boob out once I notice she is more playing with it.

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