feeding to sleep

[pinkum]

i get my 5 month off to sleep at night by breast feeding him on my side which seems to be the only way he will settle most of the time.
we do cosleep most of the time which we both like but i keep being told by my oh so knowledgable routine mad friends that he should be settling himself and be sleeping on his own.
though he is capable of spending good nights in the cot most of the time. i dont want to resort to controled crying i just think its cruel.

If he's happy and you're happy, don't worry about it.

i thought that too but im worried that later he wont be able to settle himself and will be in bed with me holding my nose to wake me up.

Feeding to sleep is one of the things I really enjoyed about bfing my dd and it was the last feed she dropped at around 13 months when I finally weaned her. Don't listen to anyone else: what you are doing has been done by mothers for thousands of years and is still being done in most of the rest of the world. Routine is way overrated anyway.

ignore them , your baby your decision, what the harm if you are both happy?

I fed ds to sleep until he was around 11 months, when he just stopped going to sleep on his last feed. He learnt to settle himself fairly quickly (no cc here, either) and has been settling on his own and sleeping through from about 13 months.

Either ignore your friends, or lie to them and carry on doing what works for you.

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