Baby will only sleep if he’s having a bottle

[Anon6341]

My 5 month old has always been hard to get to sleep, there was a phase of having to rock him to sleep, lay with him rocking him etc but the last 2-3 weeks he fights his sleep so much to the point it seems he has to have a bottle in order to sleep wether that he naps or bedtime. Once he’s asleep he’s a great sleeper he sleeps 11 hours at night without waking. I don’t mind giving him the bottle but I’m not sure if that’s gonna cause an issue in the long run or will it be easier as he gets older? He is teething right now don’t know if that’s could be to do with it? The only other way he will sleep is in the pram or the car

It's totally biologically normal and fine to feed to sleep.

When they get older and have more teeth then it's good practice to either brush their teeth after milk or you at this age you could also give them a sip of water after or wipe around their teeth with damp gauze.

We didn't bother with any of that until they were 18mo+ though.

Don't worry about it x

What a result that he sleeps 11 hours and you don’t have to make up bottles in the night!

Totally normal for them to feed to sleep, it’s how we are designed.

Okay perfect thanks, cause my mom was saying I would be over feeding him then but surely if I was over feeding he wouldn’t drink it/ would be sick after and he never is !

I know I am so so lucky ! I’m so glad this will be okay doing it this way and I can then try working on independent sleep when he’s a bit older because when I try without a bottle it is like world war to him😂😂😂 then I end up with a very very overtired grumpy baby ! X

Totally normal. I’m not sure mine ever went to sleep without a feed until closer to a year, unless it was like accidentally in the car. Babies feed and then they sleep, repeat. All normal.

If your DM is worried about overfeeding, is she concerned about his centiles? Is he very short and very wide? Or is she just talking absolute nonsense?