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Howwwww are we getting our 11 months old to stop waking every two hours without feeding back to sleep 😩😩😩
Last night checked me out my boy will just cry and cry until he gets the boob back to sleep he literally cannot get back to sleep without it!!
I’m always SO tired to try anything else anyway ugh

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Time is the answer. He'll grow out of it. Meanwhile, feeding to sleep is probably the quickest way.
I usually just take my LB into the bed with me when I get tired of resettling him in his bed. This way at least I don't have to fully wake when he wants to feed x

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Is he wanting a proper feed or a comfort feed? My little one is just wanting comfort feeds so the easiest thing for me is to him in my bed when he gets unsettled

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I've been fighting this exact fight. We are now trying to get him to put himself to sleep at night which is working however he's waking more frequently I think in panic that we aren't there. Hoping with perseverance he will start doing longer stints 🙏🙏🙏

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Sorry, couldn't reply above! No, not necessarily! It's not so much that they wake up *to feed*, they wake up because that's what they do at this age. I fed my first until she was well over 2yo and she was sleeping much longer stretches from probably around a year old, then started sleeping through before she weaned off the boob xx

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