If I feed to sleep, will my baby be forever waking for the boob?

[Lizbiz89]

My 10 month is still waking 3-4 times a night for a feed. I think he is mainly doing it for comfort as he eats really well now. Extremely hungry chap. I've heard people say that if you continue to feed them in the night they will continue to wake up for it. Out of everyone's experiences, does this seem to be true? Just wondering if I need to be limiting his night feeds now.

Amen to this - my son is 10m and his feedings are gradually stretching out overnight. Often enough it's just two wakings, one of which is before I even go to sleep myself.

Feeding to sleep seems to have no effect on his growing ability to sleep 4h plus chunks.

@thecatsthecats fingers crossed my 10m feedings start to stretch out soon as well. He still wakes up 3-4 times a night atm 😭

Going against the grain a little - we did sleep training at 7 months because I was losing my mind, I actually couldn’t drive as it didn’t feel safe I was so tired.

For a week we moved away from feed to sleep - so I fed her before her bath and then we rocked her to sleep instead (which still took ages to get her down).

Once the ‘feed to sleep’ was broken, we did Ferber and after 2 nights she went down without crying and went down to waking once for a feed, usually at 4am.

I’m fine with one night feed as she’s still so little (8 months) but i would really recommend not feeding to sleep if you want longer stretches.

I know a lot of people don’t want to sleep train, but it was life changing for us. I’ll aim to try and drop the 4am feed before I go back to work,

We tried sleep training but he got so upset he started hyperventilating so I just couldn't continue with it. I currently feed/rock him and put him down awake in his cot. Then he ends up in our bed at some point in the night where I feed or try and rock him when he wakes.