Sleep training for bf 3 month old - is it possible?

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My DS will only fall asleep if rocked in my arms, and usually only after a feed. Once he is down in his cot, if he wakes up again he will instantly start to cry, and I have to pick him up and start rocking / feeding & rocking again. He sleeps from about 8.30pm til his first night feed at 2/3am, and then second feed at about 5 am. Wakes up at about 6.30/7 am which I feel is quite good, and as he is bf I don't expect him to sleep through. However - has anyone found a better night-time routine to help bf babies settle without being rocked or fed? I know controlled crying is only recommended from 6 months+ so does that apply to all other sleep training methods too?

Just feed him to sleep - he's tiny, and its the quickest way to get everyone back to sleep. Oh boy did I miss it when DS1 stopped feeding to sleep - I actually had to work at it!

What do you actually want? More sleep for you, or an easier settling baby? If sleep, feed to sleep, or co-sleep. Easily settling baby - feed to sleep!
I'd have killed for that amount of sleep at 9 months!

That sounds absolutely perfect for a 3 month old- what do you want to change?

No I'm certainly not complaining about the amount of sleep he has, I just wondered if I am doing the wrong thing by feeding to sleep - will he learn to self-settle once he is older? I just got a bit scared when I went to a bf support group, and a lady there was still using feed-to-sleep with her 2yo. Certainly wouldn't want to get stuck like that!

Sounds good to me. Similar to what we did, although I did manage to get my DS who is 9 months now to settle himself at the beginning of the night by using a dummy and shshing him in the cot when he was about 3-4 months. Then I wished I'd never bothered with the dummy as he'd wake each time it fell out, so removed it at 5 months. Anyway, he can now get to sleep by himself on a good day with a little cuddly toy. He still needs to be fed back to sleep when he wakes overnight though (sometimes more times than your 12 week old!!)