Breastfed babies that sleep well!

Looking for some advice from breastfeeding mums who have babies that sleep well at night (I.e more than than 1 hour at a time)

My daughter who is 5 now never slept well for years and neither does my nearly 4 month old. I fully know it’s developmentally normal etc. at his age but I know he’s just waking for comfort feeds and he actually feeds so much that I think he gets an uncomfortable tummy which makes the wakings worse.

I never sleep trained my daughter as didnt really agree with it, but this time round I can’t go on with no sleep for as long as I did last time especially as I gradually return to work from mid Jan. I would never do cry it out, but would be interested in gentler approaches.

What’s your secret / did you do anything if your breastfed baby is sleeping well? Or did they simply just do it?

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All you have to do is follow safe sleep seven, you don’t have to wake up to breast-feed.

My secret to sleeping peacefully is sleeping in bed with my baby. Going on 13 months now.

I breastfeed my daughter and we are currently going through the 4m regression. She was waking hourly for 4 weeks straight, I started sleep training her last week and she now wakes 3-4 times a night which is a huge improvement! I am following a very gentle method which is getting her sleepy and then putting her down awake. I sit next to the cot and whenever she cries I tap her chest, the second she stops crying I remove my hand. I do this the entire time until eventually she sucks her thumb to sleep. If she is unsettled I will sing at the same time or if she is very distressed I will pick her up and cuddle her until she calms down. When she is calm I put her down awake and start the process again.

I am on day 5 now and are making great progress. When I feel like the time is right I will gradually get further and further away from the cot until I am out of the room.

Hope this helps, it’s a very gentle approach and will likely take longer than other methods but it’s working for us. X

Didn't do anything, baby sleeps well in her next to me. She wakes once a night for a feed usually. No particular bedtime routine, everything has been in the air recently as I was in hospital for a couple days and needed surgery

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