Feeding to sleep

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Are you guys feeding your baby to sleep?

I just read feeding to sleep is creating bad habit and baby will always cry etc when awake at night expecting to get bottle before falling asleep again. 🤔
It said should feed the baby, give a bath (or not) and then put to sleep.
I do other way around - bath, pjs/lotion, rock to sleep and feed at the same time and then baby falling asleep.
Am I creating a bad habit? Been doing it all the time really. 😳

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I feed my daughter to sleep, always have, she has her last bottle and goes to sleep, she then goes into her next to me (some nights we could sleep depends if shes a little under the weather/teething) she has any feeds in the night that she needs (varies) then throughout the day she may have a bottle and fall asleep or her sleep may be completely unconnected. I lead by her and it works :) you do what works for uou and your baby. Personally I think thr bedtime feed-snuggle to sleep is the best and I am happy she most prefers this with me 🙊❤️xx

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I have always followed my LOs needs too and have fallen into the feed to sleep routine. Since my LB had a severe tongue tie, it took about 11/12 weeks to fix and so my LB would fall asleep on me all the time during a feed.
I think it took too long to sort and so we’re now stuck in our routine.
In a way I think it does create a bad habit, as it means only you (if BF) can feed & soothe LO.

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I feed to sleep as well and read the same thing but right now I carry on and prioritise getting back to sleep quickly as I don’t fancy battling in the middle of the night 🙈

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I feed to sleep and it hasn’t stopped my husband being able to soothe her back to sleep in the night. I’ll keep doing it until it causes a problem.

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I feed to sleep, and I did with my four-year old. He has been able to fall asleep without a bottle for years! X

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I've always done it with my older daughter and my son now. My daughter had a bottle for bed until she was about 18 months, then I had to do 3 days cold turkey to stop it (which were painful!) but after that she's never gone back xx

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I feed my baby to sleep same as I fed my first baby to sleep. I did it until she was about 1 and now she goes to sleep independently and is a great sleeper x

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I mix it up day to day (not planned but just ends up that way).

No chance we could go bath to bed - always needs feed after a high alert time

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I do! I’ve always breastfed and baby will only wake once in the middle of the night but not for a long feed i think it’s more for comfort to get back to sleep but i want to start getting out of the habit but not sure how. If i’ve fed her and shes still awake i’ll put her back in the next to me and after about 5 minutes of cooing she’ll fall back asleep but if i just leave when she first wakes up it’ll turn into a cry. She’s only 4 and a half months so probs too early to cut out a night feed, even if its only a small top up xx

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