Feed to sleep 12 months

[mummyintheunknown]

Hi looking for any advice from those who have breastfed more than12 months.

In short - my lovely DD turns 1 this week, breastfed from birth and settled and fed to sleep both naps and bedtime by feeding.

I'm just wondering to those who did similar - how long did you feed to sleep for once they reached 1 year old?

I live the cuddles and don't mind too much settling her at night but I'm just wondering where we go next? I've never really tried giving her milk in a sippy cup as her night time drink. I'm not even sure she would take it and where to start without cuddles and boob and sleepy but awake etc....

Feeing a bit lost.

Anyone?

I’m still feeding to sleep at 1.5 years... no idea what happens when that stops :s

Nothing magically happens at 1... some people choose to breastfeed till 6 months, a year, 2 years etc ....I'm feeding to sleep some of the time at 13 months, over the past few months she doesn't always settle as well on the breast, but you don't need to prepare anything specific for 1st birthday, just do what is right for you and your family.

Still feeding to sleep at 23 months at night. Works for us! FB group breastfeeding older babies and beyond is nice for similar experiences.

If you’re wanting to gradually stop feeding to sleep, or give yourself the option of another person to put her to sleep then I’d slowly start to introduce a gap between the feeding and the sleep. Generally it’s not fun because children are creatures of habit. Perhaps try adding another solid thing to your bedtime routine, like a story and cuddles in bed before the feed. Let this become habit and then switch the feed and the story order?

At about 12m I taught DS the meaning of the phrase “lie down” by getting him to lie beside me to breastfeed. After a while I could say “lie down” without the breastfeeding and he would do it. He’s 18m and currently I breastfeed before bed then put him to bed and tell him to lie down. Sometimes he whinges but he does know what it means and eventually he lies down.

Thanks for all your replies. It's good to hear lots of people are feeding to sleep after 12 months as well.

Well I'm going to continue - but during the day as well as water - I'm going to give DD Toddler follow on milk instead of cows milk. Just to see how she goes.

Our routine has been a bit off lately with some teething. She wakes anywhere between 8am and 8.30am. She usually takes a nap at 12.30/1 for 90 minutes but has been fighting that a lot!! Today she took till 3pm to have a nap finally!! Just too interested in crawling of bouncing on her bum and looking in cupboards and drawers!!

I'm just going to keep feeding to sleep... see what she wants to do next.

I am still feeding my 14 month old to sleep. I stopped feeding my son at around this time because I wanted to try for another. I just changed the routine so I read a story between feeding and putting him down instead of before and woke him up if he fell asleep at the breast. He hated it for the first few nights but when he got used to it he would fall asleep as soon as I put him down and then stopped asking to be fed at all. I am a bit softer with my dd and not quite ready to have a couple of nights of crying so am waiting until I want to give up!