Bottle fed 8mo has only ever fed to sleep for
naps/night wakes/night time sleep apart from for a few weeks before teething started at 3.5 months when he would fall asleep being rocked. We’ve managed to get to the point of only 1/2 night wakes now, one of which he tends to go back down with a cuddle, the other is a feed, so we’ve decided to take the opportunity to move away from feeding to sleep to eventually self-settling. I’m focusing on night time at the minute and naps when we’ve got that cracked - is that a good idea?
For 2 nights, we’ve fed him downstairs, read a story, then done teeth and into sleeping bag in his room. He’s then been rocked and has cried for 10 minutes each time before falling asleep. I suppose I’m wondering what the next steps would be and what people’s experiences of a similar transition have been?
We are still feeding in the night at the minute if it has been a while since his last feed - for example we fed at 3:30am when he woke after a 7:45pm bedtime. Is this a good idea or could it cause confusion?