If you breastfed to sleep, when did your baby start to learn how to self settle without breastfeed?

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I mean with no sleep training. Just when did they developmentally manage it on their own. We are at 14 months and I'm wondering how much longer we have to go!

Ds was 14 months, he just didn't want it one night and into into his cot awake. Never bf since that night.
Dd is 10 months, she does it on occasion but normally falls asleep on boob and I move her over. Will try and do it more and more often so it's easier

That sounds promising purplehonesty. I have a feeling you may have been more lucky than most though. Hopefully get a few more replies and see...

When he (DS2) gave up at 26 months! But he has gone to bed and sleep like a lamb ever since and he's 5 now.

In fact DS1 gave up at 19 months when I was pg with DS2 and he has been far harder to settle (sometimes) even now and he's 7!

Still bf to sleep at 13 months so reading with interest...

dd has in the last week unlatched from bedtime feed and looked zonked and I've been able to put her to bed awake but only just. She's nearly 15 months. I tried cow milk before bed a month ago and she wasn't having it - but with getting ds to sleep too, it was too disruptive.

Ds was happy with cow milk at bedtime from about a year, maybe 14 mo.

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Am currently bf DC2 (aged 26 months) to sleep :-/ this so wasn't my plan!

At about 16 months :)

Watching with interest. Still doing it and dd is 2 years 8 months. Not planned to do this at all. DS was forced off the boob coz it started to hurt. Turns out I was preg with dd. he was 2 years.

Not entirely helpful, but dd was self settling at 5 months.
We went from bf to sleep, lying together on a futon,
to me putting boob away when she started to do the unlatch/ startle/ latch/ unlatch and repeat, I then lay next to her (mnetting behind her head ) for a while then leaving.

After about a week of that there came a point where I needed the loo, she had already had a good feed and I was lying next to her, it was go or wet myself so I went. She bawled and I shut the door to slightly drown her out while I peed, by the time I was done she had really geared down to an intermittent grumble so I waited outside the door for a few mins and that was it.
The next night I thought to myself that I should try and re-enact it and see and results were the same.
A couple of weeks later, I stopped lying down to feed her and did a sitting feed then tucked up in cot.

She is now 15mo and we've only had the screaming ab dabs at bed times a handful of times, usually calpol fixes it. If not I do keep going in and reassuring her and then leaving until she settles. I have found a stereo a big help, I think listening to the music gives their little brains something to focus on while they drift off, it doesn't require any effort or concentration and stops the missing you or hearing you.

For the sake if clarity there should be commas! After leaving

11 mths but I introduced bottles slowly here too to take over. Finally stopped bf at 16mths and had begun weaning at 6mths.

I cut out the bedtime bf with both of my DC at around 18m, so they weren't feeding to sleep after that time. They were happy to have cowmilk in a cup. DS bf until 2y and DD until 4y.

DS was fine at settling himself but DD required me/DH to sit with her until she went to sleep up until about 2.5y. We did a sort of gradual withdrawal, started with sitting right next to her and progressed over time to sitting out on the landing by bedroom door.

Incidentally I sometimes used a bf to send DD off to sleep during the day almost up until she stopped - was v handy at times when dealing with a cranky toddler

I have to bf my 12mo DS to sleep. The only way he will sleep without it for me is if I let him stay awake till 10 or later then we cuddle on the sofa and he just drops off from sheer exhaustion. We only do that very occasionally though.
We are thinking of TTC DC2 towards the end of the year and I want DS to be able to settle himself and sleep through before a 2nd bubba needs me all night.

Dd1 - about 18 months with a bit of encouragement, started some bedtime songs which gradually became the new ritual.
Ds1 - about the same.
Ds2 - still feeding like crazy at 14 months, in fact more than ever. He's huge. I wonder if he will ever stop, but the fact I can't really remember the first two children stopping shows a) he will stop and b) it wasn't a big deal in the end.

Wishiwasanheiress, did you introduce bottles at 11 months for the first time ever. Or was it just that you hadn't done bottles specifically at bedtime? I'd like to introduce bottle now, but never heard of anyone doing it so late before.

At about 18 months for my two. Until then they fed to sleep, then they fed and stayed awake! I preferred the feeding to sleep!

They're 2yrs 6mo now and rarely feed at bedtime. Just stories, cuddles and go to sleep. They do sometime still want a bedtime feed though, and DD still feeds once or twice in the night. DS has just started to fairly reliably sleep through they night :) Ignores memories of today's 4.30am start to the day

I gave up feeding to sleep at about 20 months, but it wasn't related to a developmental change and required a long period of gentle encouragement and sitting/lying in bed with him. He still doesn't reliably self-settle at 3yo. I think some children just experience sleep as too much of a separation so find it hard to go to sleep alone.

Hmmm... Still waiting for my 19m DD to develop the skill of self settling herself. But, tbh, she's gone from needing my nipple in her mouth all night to turning away from me as soon as she's ready to drop off. Currently consoling myself that she's making progress - albeit slowly!

I'm on 17mo. He went through phases where he was able to settle himself, but right now, no chance.

In one respect it's handy, because me and my Magic Boobs of Sleep can make him go from bouncing off the walls to flat out snoring in about 10 minutes. I'm a bit worried that if/when we do stop, we'll start having long protracted bedtime routines.

I miss the Magic Boobs of Sleep... yy to long protracted bedtime routines when they don't work anymore

I have a related question. When your DC made the switch, did you notice much of a change in nighttime waking?