Feeding to sleep

[flutterbynight]

Since he was born, I have frequently fed my DS to sleep. He can fall asleep without the breast when I'm not there or if he is in the buggy or similar and does sometimes self soothe even when I am around but by and large, he drops off at the breast.

Now he is 9 months old, I'm expecting him to start dropping some of his feeds and just wondered whether anyone who has trodden this path before me has any advice about settling him for naps when this happens? I also wondered whether it might delay him dropping feeds?

Thanks.

I fed both of mine to sleep and just gradually moved from feeding to sleep to offering a dummy, that assumes you use a dummy.

It might well be th case that baby decides not to bother waking for as many feeds.

It wasn't that difficult for us.

Good luck!

I put mine in their buggy for a nap at that point, even if we were not going out anywhere they settled better in the buggy than the cot.

I think mine dropped their feeds naturally as they ate more, it wasn't really an issue.

Thanks Gruffalump, we don't use a dummy but I have found that DS pulls off the breast to fall to sleep on a few occasions, just not consistently. I've been trying to get him snuggled up with Ewan the dream sheep as he drifts off to build up a sleep association with it so perhaps that will do the same thing!

That's a good idea Lucy, thank you - I'll give it a try! Hopefully I'm just overthinking things and DS will lead the way :-)