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To ask for advice on feeding to sleep

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jinglejanglejungles · 06/05/2025 11:26

My baby is nearly 6 months and still wants to feed to sleep 90% of the time. Always at night and almost always in the day. The exception to this is in the pram on a walk, where she will have a grumble for maybe 5-10 minutes and then fall asleep and stay asleep providing we are walking outside in the fresh air.

She has always been a good sleeper at night and will generally transfer smoothly after a feed and then do a decent stretch, unless teething or under the weather. In the daytime though she only wants to contact nap, or pram/car seat. If she is having a contact nap she will usually stay latched for at least 30 minutes but it more recently it can be for the whole nap.

I am in no rush to transition her out of this but feel worried she will struggle when I go back to work in September (she’ll be 10 months then). I’ll only be doing 2 days a week until she is 14 months.

Is it normal to still feed to sleep at this age?

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Mulledjuice · 06/05/2025 11:32

Pretty normal!

Have you tried unlatching her?

A LOT will change inthe next 4 months.

Is there another parent on the scene? How do they settle her to sleep?

jinglejanglejungles · 06/05/2025 11:40

Mulledjuice · 06/05/2025 11:32

Pretty normal!

Have you tried unlatching her?

A LOT will change inthe next 4 months.

Is there another parent on the scene? How do they settle her to sleep?

Yes. Sometimes he can do it by rocking her but she has to have just fed, and it doesn’t always work

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jinglejanglejungles · 06/05/2025 11:40

If I unlatch her she roots (whilst asleep) and then opens her eyes and cries

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Canthelpmyselffromjoiningin · 06/05/2025 19:41

Totally normal, and normal to worry about it. 4 months is a long time, try to enjoy now and worry about sleep during childcare closer to the time. My first fed to sleep with me for almost 2 years, but was fine at nursery / with daddy being rocked or cuddled to sleep

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