Hoping to get some experience of other bf mums
My 9 month old currently feeds to sleep for bedtime most nights. Very occasionally she’ll let me shush her to sleep but generally speaking if I’m there she wants boob. I don’t really mind this but will be heading back to work in a couple of months and I don’t want to be the only one doing bedtime forever.
If she wakes in the evening before we go to bed my DH can cuddle her to sleep but she often wakes when he tries to put her down and it usually takes him a few goes / I step in and go to bed anyway.
Obviously the older she gets the less she “needs” bedtime boob from a nutritional point of view and I don’t mind her feeding in the night because it’s such a quick way to get her back to sleep but I’d like the occasional evening out either to go to the gym, see a friend etc.
Should DH be doing some bedtimes totally solo as part of our normal routine to get her used to this? He usually changes her nappy/gets her into pjs but then I take over and get her to sleep. I’m wondering if we should maybe have a fixed day(s) each where we do solo bedtime so either one of us can get her to sleep?
Interested to know what other people do!