Feeding a 6 week to sleep or not? Advice please.

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This might sound obvious to some people but I can't figure out if I should be feeding DD (6 weeks) after a sleep or feeding her to sleep. Have been doing the former to discourage her from getting used to falling asleep on the breast (she's exclusively bf). However I can't get her to nap in the day for longer than 20 minutes and I'm going crazy. Today I fed her to sleep and she slept for 2 hours! It was bliss. Does anyone have theories on this?

Feed her to sleep. sleep and breastfeeding evolved together. we are designed to do that. it makes baby and mother sleepy. in fact, i recommend you curling up and having a nap next to her today.

and throw away any baby books which is making you feel guilty about this. books should support you in motherhood not make you feel bad. IME, these are the books which are written by writers with poor knowledge of how breastfeeding works.

No theories, but I fed both of my DS's on demand, so if I felt they wanted a bf, then I fed them. This usually meant feeding to sleep, and feeding when they woke up too.

I did have problems getting them to settle in a cot initially (I suppose they were going to sleep on me, then waking up in a strange place), but after a few sessions of briefly rousing them before I put them down, they seemed to sort themselves out.

BTW - the cot issue occurred much later on than 6w, as we did cosleep for quite a while. This has been in the last few months for DS2 who is now 18m.

Feed your lovely DD to sleep, then have a nap with her in the bed, or just lie there and think how lovely she is. Things change very quickly, enjoy the time with your tiny baby while it lasts

What lovely responses thank you. I did feed DS1 to sleep (now 6) and it was fine (did lots of co-sleeping too), but then it was hard to get him to go to sleep any other way. But instinctively I want to do it again, so I'm pleased you've validated that for me!