BF baby feeds to sleep

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My DS is 7 weeks old and I have been exclusively breastfeeding him with the occassional bottle of expressed milk. He is generally quite difficult to settle and can become overtired very quickly due to fighting sleep. I have found that more often than not I am feeding him to sleep as it is the only way he will settle. DP takes this hard as he is no longer able to settle him. Whenever DP gives the bottle I have either not expressed enough or DS wants the comfort of my breast. He point blank refuses a dummy.
The only other tried and tested way is his car seat which is not ideal for naps.

Is this something DS will grow out of? If put down only half asleep he wakes up and I have to soothe him on the breast! I am currently unable to leave him for a few hours break for the fear of him not settling!

The baby books tend to warn you against feeding them to sleep, and encourage you to get them to self settle. But in my experience most DC do feed themselves to sleep at this age! So this is normal IMO.

Hi OP, not able to offer any advice but just to say my DD very similar. It is tough going to be honest. Do you have a stretchy wrap? My husband was able to get DD to sleep in that - it was part of their bonding when he came home from work we’d pop her in the sling and she would nap on him.

She’s 18 months and still feeds to sleep... because I’m soft as a marshmallow.

Good luck!

Is it actually a problem?

I still feed my 18 month old to bed every night. It's a lovely bond.

They will start sleeping for longer periods as they develop. Feeding every few hours through the night is perfectly normal for a young baby exclusively breastfed.

Don't push a dummy for a breastfed baby either. It's not recommended and you don't have to deal with getting rid of it again!

It's normal and healthy.

Utterly normal.

Just feed your baby to sleep,totally normal

Definitely normal. My husband has always been able to get my daughter (now 6 months) to sleep in the sling, so maybe your husband could try that if he's feeling sad about not being able to settle the baby.

Enjoy it. Cuddle them and snuggle them. He's still in the 4th trimester.
I fed all 4 of mine to sleep. They are all able to self soothe now. (One is 29 so that's a relief!).
Just do what feels right and what's best for you and him.
Enjoy your first Christmas with him.

Normal and embrace it! DS1 was bf and fed to sleep until 18mo although from about 11mo DH could settle him with a cuddle to sleep if I wasn't there. DS2 is also ebf and is 10 weeks old. He will not feed to sleep! He feeds, then breaks off and has to be rocked/patted to help him settle. It's a pain in the arse, especially in the middle of the night. Tell your DH it's perfectly normal and natural and convenient!!

I was so worried about feeding to sleep too - I thought it was ruining naps and I'd find it hard to wind her. And of course I'd heard terrible things about sleep crutches. But I needn't have been. She's 6 months now and stopped feeding to sleep or her own accord around 4/5 months. She only does it now if she's poorly or upset.

Sometimes babies just need to get to things in their own time! If she's sleeping well I'd go with it - especially at this age

Oh and my LO wouldn't take a dummy either. We introduced a muslin comforter around 12 weeks and that works well for her as she can now self settle with it

Don't worry, my baby did this and I worried but now at 6 months he is stopping feeding to sleep. He is also learning to self settle which has been totally his work, we've done nothing differently. They may well stop in their own time. It's actually been more stressful now he's stopped as it's not as easy to sooth him.