Can I sleep train a 7month ebf a baby?

[Lozzylou1]

Hi all.

Looking for advice. I currently co-sleep with my 7m, she is ebf & it’s the only way any of us in the house get sleep.

I do want her to start going in her own cot. She does nap in there during the day but they are not long.

A few people have suggested gently sleep training but not sure how that would work if she’s ebf? Is it doable?

Also, I don’t want to use CIO as a method so any other suggestions welcome. Thank you

Yes it’s completely doable. My baby is nearly 9 months and EBF. We sleep trained at 6 months and he’s slept well ever since. The key is breaking any feed to sleep associations.
We paid a sleep consultant to help us and used the chair method. I also didn’t want to leave him to CIO, so this is a more gentle method. Just remember that changing their sleep associations / routine / environment will result in some level of crying as it’s their only way to communicate and they obviously don’t understand why something has changed.
Do you currently have a bedtime routine? Before we sleep trained we did bathtime and then feed and then into crib. He would be falling asleep whilst feeding so then would need feeding to help him back to sleep if he woke up. Now we do feed, bath, story, cuddles, into crib. Have a look at some sleep techniques - there’s some much more gentle techniques than CIO.

How do I break the feed to sleep association? Also does your little one wake up for feeds still?

Also what is the chair method if you don’t mind me asking x

So change when you feed them - move the feed to the start of the bedtime routine, then do story, or bath etc and then into crib. Then they go into their crib awake rather than using the feeding to help them start to fall asleep.
The chair method is where you sit next to the crib for X number of nights and comfort them by gentle strokes and saying night night, then after a few nights move further away and then further away again until you can eventually put them into their crib and leave and they’ll go to sleep. You can go as slow as you need. But give it a Google and some other methods to see if you feel comfortable trying any.