Anyone struggling with "my baby will feed to sleep but then wakes when I put him in his cot" look here

[StealthPolarBear]

I know..I know..feeding to sleep - rod for own back etc but sometimes anything for an easy life
Anyway this will only be OK for a much OLDER baby as it involves pillows and sleeping on front.

Feed baby to sleep on pillow
Put pillow in cot
10 mins later -baby rolls off pillow (without waking which is the bit I didn't believe), nip in, remove pillow and you're done

[StealthPolarBear]

look you lot this was a miracle for me
well off to have some sleep in my own bed without a toddle sprawled everywhere and sticking his bum in the air...until he wakes

[MegBusset]

I used to get the crib mattress out and lay it on the bed, feed DS to sleep on it then get DH to VERY GENTLY transfer the mattress back into the crib with sleeping DS on it.

[1dilemma]

lol meg and stealth we just keep ending up wiht a bed full of kids

[MegBusset]

Good point, that was before I learned to relax about co-sleeping! So many hours wasted trying to get him to sleep in the crib...

[StealthPolarBear]

We've been co sleeping on and off since he was about 7 or 8 months but our bed really isn't big enough. PLus I think he feeds more (constantly??) when it's there on tap, whereas when he's in his cot he tends to wake for a feed then go back to sleep.
Anyway, last night lasted until just after midnight, when he ended up in bed with me, still, not bad

[BroccoliSpears]

I think it's a temperature thing. Last night there were 4 of us in our rather small double bed, so I fed ds on a folded fleece blanket and lifted him and the nice warm fleece together into his bedside cot. He didn't stir.

[GreenMonkies]

The best cure for this is actually to take one side off your cot and cable-tie it to the side of your bed with the mattresses level. This way you can boob your LO to sleep whilst they lie in thier own bed and then get up and leave them sleeping without having to move them at all. No stress, no fuss, easy!

I actually kept DD2 in the livingroom with me, either on my lap or in the reclining chair, until she was almost a year old. Much easier than trotting backwards and forwards between the livingroom and bedroom! (like I did with DD1 )

Monkies

[StealthPolarBear]

That never works for me - I quite often feed him in a blanket.
Although - now I think about it...because his cot is quite low I have to stop him being cuddled into me from quite early on, if it was higher I could probably put him down and keep cuddled into him until he was properly asleep. But then of course he could escape!

[StealthPolarBear]

We sleep on a futon, so it's even easier GM, we sometimes just put his mattress beside it - they're pretty much the same height. I still find that he ends up in our bed earlier (because we can't stop him crawling in I suppose) and does the feed-all-night thing