Should I stop feeding my exclusively breastfed baby who doesn’t take a bottle to sleep

I’m due back in work at the end of October and my little girl is exclusively breastfed and attached at my hip since we’ve never been apart, only for a couple of hours a handful of times. I know I need to work on leaving her with my MIL who will be watching her a bit more but do I work on stopping feeding to sleep?

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Nope 😊

Babies sleep so differently for other people. They’re smart, they know when milk isn’t around and your MIL will find different ways to settle her to sleep x

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do some trial runs

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I wouldn’t worry. My daughter never just goes to sleep for me, but at nursery without milk she naps same time without milk every time.

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