Feeding to sleep

[Newmama93]

Hi ladies

So I currently feed my 5 month old baby to sleep on my bed every single nap time, I am so exhausted from our night of constant waking that I can’t be bothered for the 45 minute to an hour long screaming fighting match if I try and rock him or put him in his cot, so I’ve just been laying with him and feeding and he will fall asleep.

My wedding is coming up in a few months and my mym will be minding him for the night, my hens is also an all day thing so my hubby will have him and obviously cannot feed him to sleep so any tips of how to stop this without making me insane? I feel guilty because he wants the comfort to sleep.

How old will he be when it's your Hen Do?

Has your partner tried putting him to bed / sleep.
I fed my daughter to sleep most nights until after she turned 1 and for me she would always want this but if I was not around she’d be happy with a cuddle to sleep from DH. So it doesn’t necessarily need to be either / if feeding to sleep still works for you on most nights.

He’ll be 7 months.

Thanks ladies, it’s hard because he screams so badly with my mum and husband and just tried to find boob. So I feel bad for him if I need a break because he must be confused. I’m also feeding him every hour all through the night BACK to sleep. It’s hard

I'd have a look at the No Cry Nap Solution. Hopefully if will sort out her naps long before your events.

If you are feeding every hour in the night is she getting enough feeds in the day? I'd try feeding her every 2 hours for a few days and seeing if that helps at all.

Dr Sears has some good tips on getting her to sleep here.

Hope these help

My friend broke away from the feed/sleep association by putting her baby on a bottle. She had to persevere but got there and baby now doesn't have that association. Could you express and start him with a bottle at night time and then he might not purely associate sleep with just you and it will give you more freedom?

I would look at Lynsey hookway on Instagram and find her post on habit stacking, that’s how I got my fed to sleep DS to fall asleep with a cuddle/rock and my DH/DM could get him to sleep. The night wake ups only improved when I stopped feeding all through the night when he was 8 months but it meant others could do bed/nap time which was a big relief.