How to stop feeding to sleep?!

If it works, why try anything different?

I am in the same boat, but it was the same with my 6 year old who also exclusively breast fed. It does get easier

How old?

My daughter is 18 months and feeds to sleep and latches several times during the night. It can be exhausting but it's very much biologically normal

My 6 month old is the same, if we're home it's feeding to nap too, I've just accepted it and trust it will work itself out, one day I'll miss it, as much as I would love to sleep more and have some time away to myself at nap times it is what it is I guess, I think a lot of it is comfort too, My daughter will not use a dummy so I guess she uses me as one 🤷🏼‍♀️

My 13 weeks old is the same and he is on formula .He wakes up multiple times overnight and wants me to feed him, cuddle him etc. They just looking for the safe place sorry to say but it is totally normal and will last for a while.

Similar to what others have put, LG is EBF never took a bottle, and woke multiple times a night until a couple of months ago. I see you mentioned that you think he’s not actually hungry when he wakes. That’s the same as me, my LG wasn’t. I did reduced feeds in the end, there’s lots of guidance online, but basically you pick one feed time to ‘drop’ first. Time how long you feed normally. Then on the next night you want to drop the feed length by 1 minute. Stay the same the following night. Then reduce further the night after etc. (e.g. normal feed 8 mins. Night 1&2: feed for 7 mins. Night 3&4: feed for 6 mins, and so on)
Eventually it’ll drop to such short feeds that if baby is just waking out of habit they will basically learn it’s not worth waking for a couple of minutes of boob, then they will drop that wake. Then you can repeat the process to drop the others. Obviously as others have stated, only do this if they’re old enough to not need feeding through the night…

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/don’t have weight gain issues.

The above worked well for us and LG now sleeps through 90% of the time and has done since about 16 months old. Before we dropped the feeds she was waking about 3 times a night on average.

Also helps if your little one takes a dummy? As I found when I was reducing the feed times, I could pop her off the boob and pop the dummy in its place to keep her settled long enough to transfer back to her cot.

Hope this helps. Feel free to message me if you want more info on how I did it, if you think it’ll be a good fit for you.

You got this! You’re just his best comfort at the moment 🥰x

My girl isn't nursed but bottle fed with expressed milk and will feed while still asleep. Shes only 4months so dont expect that to change soon. Its comfort and its also she could just be hungy. Its completely normal for babies.

My 15 month old still breastfeeds multiple times through the night. When I night weaned my first, around 20 months old, he cried the first few nights of me not offering a feed. He got used to it. Lots of cuddles helped. It’s so tough x

Feeding to sleep became unsustainable for me - like you said it was all on me to get her back down multiple times a night and it was having real impact on my sleep and mental health. The first thing we did was try to break the association, which meant feeding half an hour before naps or bedtime and making sure they don’t fall asleep whilst feeding. Then it was about getting her to go to sleep in her cot. We did our usual bedtime routine and then would place her awake in the cot, put a hand on her tummy/chest and gently rock her in the cot whilst shushing. I was skeptical but this worked really well for us! Once she was comfortable with this method of going to sleep we gradually moved towards getting her to go to sleep independently, so going from rocking for a little bit to just a hand on her, to just shushing whilst next to the cot, to shushing away from the cot, to eventually putting her down and leaving the room, coming back in if she cried. Now she goes to sleep independently (1/2)

(2/2) for all naps and bedtime, no crying. It saved my sanity and we all sleep much better. Yes, feeding to sleep is normal and if it works then great, but if you need to make a change for your mental health then that’s fine too! Good luck, I hope it goes well for you!