Co sleeping/sleep training

Thank you so much for sharing your sleep journey. I totally understand and no judgement here. Everyone has to do what is best for their LO and family.

As a tiny baby my boy would only sleep by being rocked on the yoga ball and it would take FOREVER… he then started to reject the yoga ball and insist on manual rocking which I was shit at.
We then learnt that he enjoyed being nursed to sleep (EBF). So now I do most of the night shift or it takes bloody ages. So he falls asleep on the boob and then I place him next to me in bed mainly because he would wake up on most transfers to the cot. A lot of women feed laying down but I have small boobs and it’s a bit of a struggle.

There is no need to feel guilty or feel bad about it at all. You did what you had to, there’s nothing wrong with it. I sleep trained my baby girl when she was 4.5 months and it was the best decision ever. She used to wake up multiple times at night anywhere from 3-6+, so I was co sleeping for most part of it. Her first stretch of sleep was in her next to me, but honestly the transfer was getting more & more difficult, some nights it was taking 2-3hrs with a few failed attempts, to the point that I was dreading bedtime everyday. And then I decided to sleep train her, now I lay her down awake in the crib and she’s all happy & smiling and falls asleep on her own within 5mins without any fussing or crying. And from waking multiple times at night she now wakes up 1 or 2 times for feed & goes back to sleep straight away and occasionally sleeps through the night too. We’re both now less frustrated with each other and well rested, and it makes our days all the more fun!

So please don’t feel bad and hang in there, hopefully you’ll get to a point where he won’t cry anymore when going to bed x

We nurse to sleep and she stays asleep after falling asleep breastfeeding xx