To say that 'don't feed your baby to sleep' advice is BS

[NorthernRosie]

Ever since I've had my baby this is all I've heard. If you feed your baby to sleep they will wake constantly in the night, you will create a rod for your back, you will never sleep again!! But to me this advice has been bullshit and caused me a lot of stress.

Feeding a baby to sleep is lovely, my daughter loves it and it's a lovely bonding time. And she's never had a sleep problem. She sleeps through the night and has done on and off for months.

But I have spent hours worrying about this and trying to force her to go to sleep without feeding. I've just realised I'm not sure why I am bothering....

[Bean89]

How do you NOT feed to sleep? I tried to keep dd awake by gently blowing on her face or chatting to her etc, it's impossible. She'd fall asleep within 2 minutes- surely if every time I took her off she'd never have gotten enough milk?

[MintyBojingles]

I always fed DD to sleep, always a good sleeper etc.

However now we've stopped the night feed (16 months) I have a hour and half battle to get her to sleep. She sleeps beautifully once asleep though.

[LocatingLocatingLocating]

But Bean my DD would fall asleep almost as soon as she started feeding, therefore not getting enough milk. Then she'd wake up hungry 10-20 muns later. So my question is how DO you feed to sleep, whilst ensuring feeding happens, not just sleeping.

But I guess every baby is different....

[NorthernRosie]

locating I do a feed pre-bath when she's more awake then another one after which is her go to sleep feed.

She settles herself back to sleep when she wakes in the night and I'd only feed her if she cried which she rarely does. I definitely don't co-sleep - she's in her own room.