Briefly, I hope...... DD has always been fed last thing before sleep, mostly she is asleep or almost by the time she is put down, sometimes not and then there is occasionally 15-20 mins of chat with the odd wail before sandman gets her, often she just drifts off though. She doesnt feed to sleep before her main nap but oddly does after breakfast which im happy to do as she is calm, feeds well then but not first thing, world too interesting! Now in theory I'd like to put the last feed in before the story and start always putting her down awake BUT she tends to be so manic that its bloody hard to get her to concentrate and feed - baby wrestling at its finest until she starts to relax. I've been known to give up, let her tango round the cot until almost asleep then dreamfeed! She's just over nine months.
I'm hoping that in time she'll be calmer and it will be easy to switch to milk before story and ultimately sometime between a year and 18 months stop altogether. Developmentally lots going on at the moment including much crawling related frustration, am I likely to hit a calmer period when I could more easily make the switch or is biting the bullet the order of the day? Any words of wisdom gratefully received!