Feeding...but not to sleep?

[AngelDog]

A question about not feeding to sleep. DS will be rocked to sleep, and I'd like to experiment with it at bedtime since if I feed him to sleep, he wakes after 45 mins, but if I rock him he doesn't.

How do you manage to do a bedtime feed at a point when your DC isn't drowsy (so doesn't fall asleep) but then put them down / use another method at a point when they are drowsy and ready to sleep? Do you just have a phenomenal sense of timing?

just feed, and when he starts to look drowsy take him off

Same here. Or feed to sleep then wake slightly. Or just put down awake and go back in to comfort if she kicks off!

Thanks, chaps - and sorry for the slow response. If I take him off before he's ready he gets pretty cross. When he's ready is when he's out cold, so not much good.

Mind you, having posted this, he went and slept through the 45 min cycle change that night.

Have you tried undressing him slightly, my DS always used to fall asleep during feeds so we spent a week or so of feeding in only vests, tickling feet and put him down as soon as his eyelids droop.

Now he doesn't quite fall asleep when feeding, he gets 'milk drunk' instead, with sleepy eyes and floppy head.