When and how did your DC stop feeding to sleep?

[NoviceKnitter]

Just interested... DD is 8 mo and I can't imagine any other way right now...

Just after his 1st birthday, was given a week to stop bf because I had to start meds.
I was very upset and worried myself silly that DS would find it harsh but he coped with it fine and by the end of the week slept though the night (previously he had woken 3+ times)

I was very proud of him! I cut out the day feeds first and then the last 2-3 days stopped the eve and night feeds.

Wow, that's amazing - esp in circs - poor you having to stop so suddenly. How did you get him to sleep instead?

DP took over at bedtime for 2 weeks, he soothed him in arms first and then once he was relaxed put him in his cot and rubbed/pat his back- all this took place in DS's bedroom.
I have to add that we still do this now, DS is 19 months but he's off to sleep in minutes and sleeps through 11-12 hours.
During the day I used to take him out to sleep these days we use the same method to get him to nap in his cot 1.5-2.5 hours.
TBH staying with him until he's asleep doesn't bother me as he was such a bad sleeper that our routine now seems nothing compared to our sleep deprived first year! If he stirs in the night he settles himself.

thanks for giving me hope

Agree with usandnosleep - DH took over (for about a month) & we established a bedtime routine. Was a little hard for her to get used to me doing the routine but we perservered & now she sleeps really well.

My little one did not want to feed to sleep anymore from 4 months onwards. He still has a very good appitite, but he used to be full before he had fallen asleep and then we would be trying to put him to bed with an over-full tummy... which was not much fun!

We decided enough was enough and established a bedtime routine. He protested at first, but by night 3 he was going to slepp bathed, fed and happy in minutes. Now he sleep really well and if he wakes up in the night he can settle himself off... which he could never do before!

Did any of you use a transition object and if so what and how?

(sorry bit interrogationish there - as you gather we're about to try this...)

My lo was breastfed until a year but at about 10 mths he stopped falling asleep on the breast. Then I would just put him down and he would go to sleep. When I stopped feeding him he had cow's milk in a bottle but he hardly ever fell asleep on it, then at about 13 mths he started pushing the bottle away so I just give him milk in a beaker downstairs in the evening. It probably helps that he has a dummy to help him sleep, that's going to be the nightmare to get rid of I think!

About 9 ish months he started to fall asleep when I would pop to the loo after putting him down, and just before I was about to feed him. By 11 months ish he rarely if ever fed to sleep. I thought he'd carry on for alot longer as we were co-sleeping and he was a big feeder... but he just grew out of it.

LadyOfWaffle that's reassuring. I have to say I was beginning to feel like the co-sleeping was a rod for our backs. Even tho it's actually only been a month of things feeling troublesome - before that it all worked like a dream...

Alishanty - I've considered a dummy but she'd still cry the house down every time it fell out so not sure that would help...