How to stop feeding to sleep

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We’re blessed with a pretty terrible sleeper 😄 so although I’ve now got used to multiple wake ups a night, I’ve started to get frustrated with having to feed our baby to sleep.

She’s coming up to 6 months old and has been combi fed from birth due to breastfeeding issues and low supply.

DH can’t settle her or get her to sleep at night and I’m finding it a bit limiting that it has to be me, which is probably selfish. For those that have broken the feed to sleep association what did you do? She also unhelpfully has never taken a dummy.

There's a book called 'the no-cry sleep solution' that helped me with this although my dc were older when I used it. But it's sensible advice and it worked for me twice.

Unfortunately there was no way for us to do that without some crying. We didn't leave him to cry all night but it did get to a point where I just had to put him down. He's never been left to cry more than 10 minutes but it did vastly improve his sleep.

Im not going to lie, absolutely no method worked for us. Tried them all, dd would scream hysterically and i would end up giving in. Finally shes just turned 2 and stopped breastfeeding altogether on her own for the last 2 weeks. Be prepared there will either be tears or it won't work and you will just have to wait it out.