Noo! 11 week old sleep habits help!

[Razpoot]

Hello again always some dilemma or question on my hands starting yesterday my 11 week old wants to suck so she can sleep. I used to get her to sleep by walking around with her and usually that worked, but now she just cries and the only thing that puts her to sleep is my boob. I guess this assosication might have started because either a)i always offer her the boob before i start getting her to sleep just so thats definetely ticked off my list, she literally does no hunger cues just jumps to crying so its all up to guessing or b) at night she wakes, eats, then immediently falls asleep again so maybe the association came from there?

Either way i planned to try and break the rocking habit at 3 months as i read that was a good time and i guess shes coming up to that now. I would really appreciate some advice, from what ive heard getting her drowsy then putting her down could work? Is the boob habit a bad thing? Some Google searches say it isnt and "natural" but I can't see how I'd enjoy whipping it out everytime she needs a nap thanks in advance!

Of course feeding to sleep is natural. Bm contains hormones which encourages sleep. Most babies need something to help them to sleep eg milk or movement. Your baby is absolutely tiny. It’s fine to feed or rock them to sleep.

She's not feeding though its like using me as a dummy. Yeah shes still small but when should these habits be broken? I had read it was 3 months

I think it's around 4 months when babies sleep habits change and they start to be more alert and aware of their surroundings the reason for the 4 month sleep regression) - so whether you to choose to try and break your baby's habit now it's likely to all change again.

I did some gentle sleep training with DS when he was about 6 months old, did the shush pat method to teach him to self settle (not that it means he sleeps through every night!). Some sleep experts (eg Lucy Wolfe) don't believe babies have the capability to be sleep trained before 6 months. Her book is very good and gentle if you're looking for a framework of sorts.

Sorry meant to say - I think it's only important to change stuff if it bothers you - there'll be plenty of people happy to feed to sleep for months/years and some who it won't work for, so don't worry about the 'should' stuff you read on the internet.

Also - you could always try a dummy?

Babies suck their thumbs in the womb for comfort.

New babies want what they had in the womb for around the first 13 weeks (google fourth trimester).

It’s absolutely natural.