Weaning of feeding to sleep

I'm probably not going to be much help because I haven't weaned DS off feeding to sleep and I wasn't planning to - it's such a nice easy way of getting him to sleep!

Is there a particular reason you were wanting to wean him off it?

DS does go off to sleep during the day by himself - especially in the car or in the sling. Maybe you could try putting your baby to sleep in the sling during the day as a different method?

We did the same as westies girl only at night (although every now and again during the day if she was particularly fussy). Now she goes to bed awake too as we have feed stories then bed. I started feeding her then reading 1 page and into bed and gradually lengthened the story. Now we feed in the lounge then taking her down to her room for stories then into bed which we managed with no fuss and no crying.

You can feed until drowzy then put into bed and just lengthen out the time between feed and into bed gradually. I think about 5 minutes between feed and bed is good.

Totally OP but KatzWgtn I just looked at our tickers and our babies must have the same birthday

KatzWtgn wrote: I'm probably not going to be much help because I haven't weaned DS off feeding to sleep and I wasn't planning to - it's such a nice easy way of getting him to sleep! Is there a particular reason you were wanting to wean him off it? DS does go off to sleep during the day by himself - especially in the car or in the sling. Maybe you could try putting your baby to sleep in the sling during the day as a different method?

This was us too, although now that DD2 is nearly 15mo we feed to drowsy and then she is popped straight into bed, sometimes she has a wee grizzle and sometimes not.

I don't mind it, and at some stage I *might* consider trying to space things out a little so she feeds awake and goes to bed awake... but it works for us so we are just going with it.

Don't fix what ain't broken

HippyMama wrote: Don't fix what ain't broken

hehe im 'still' feeding T to sleep for his day nap and for bed time so im not much help either, but its much nicer for us letting him feed to sleep - I once tried to put him down without milk and it was not happening lol so haven't bothered since

Hmm okay maybe I don't need to stop doing it - the only reason really was getting him to go to bed if I'm not there....what do you do in that case?

I don't feed him to sleep during the day, I do feed, play then sleep it's just at night it doesn't end up working

thanks

DS takes a bottle when I'm not there (I work 3 days a week), but doesn't fall asleep with it -- DH and Nana wish he did!


They tend to cuddle him to sleep when he does sleepy cues (rubbing eyes is an absolute giveaway for him).

We actually only gone out at night without him once (we usually take him with us) -- that was a wedding, and DH ended up singing "Rainbow Connection" down the phone to him to put him to sleep -- it was very cute but he got some strange looks from the other guests!

That is so cute KatzWtgn!!