Feeding to sleep- should I continue?

[poshsinglemum]

I currently feed dd to sleep (she's 10 months) and this gets her settled quite quickly after her evening bath.
She then wakes up a few times in the evening and night for more feeds. We co-sleep so it's not a huge issue. DD has never properly woken for feeds. It's more liek a snuffle or moan then boob in mouth- a bit of suckling then falls off staed. Does this mean she's sleeping through? I've never felt that she wakes properly and has never woken the whole house -only me.
I am tired. I am wondering how this will work when she stopd bf. I am not sure if I should self-wean or push her off the boob. I also don't mind co-sleeping but can't see this happening in a year's time if i go back to work.

So- should I continue to fed to sleep or am I storing problems up for the future? I mean- adults often drink warm milk to send them to sleep so why shouldn't babies? Am I totally misguided?

sated that should read.

sated that should read.

i would continue as long as you are happy doing it.

I did successfully introduce a dummy and cut down on ds2's night feeds when he was about 9/10 months old. it did NOT stop him waking in the night though.
the only difference was I popped the dummy back in instead of feeding him (and he still needed 2.3 feeds)

so, even if you do nightwean it's no guarantee that she'll necessarily sleep through iyswim? personally I think it's probably easier from your perspective to just feed her as you are than to try sleep training, esp with her co-sleeping.

fwiw ds2 started sleeping through a couple of weeks ago (at 18m) and I did nothing to make this happen. he just did it by himself.

What's sleeping through? In our house it was when DH stomping in to bed and waking up DS didn't result in DS being up for an hour (my problem) while DH was promptly snoring.

If you're happy to nurse through the night, why would you stop? But then, what happens if snuffle/moan is NOT responded to with a boob? Night weaning wasn't an option for me (DS refused bottles and food and I work full time), but if it were, I'd wish I'd done it around this age because once they can ask to nurse and when they start teething on their molars it gets pretty hard to night wean. I'd say that if she's happy NOT getting a boob at the slightest squeak in the night, go ahead and night wean. If she's upset and you're losing your sleep, leave things as they are.

In my experience, sleep issues are easier to deal with the older they get. (Unless CC is your bag, which it sounds like it's not, as CC gets a lot harder once they can talk/get out of bed.) People like to beat nursing moms over the head for nursing to sleep, but frankly it works and why should you tear your hair out upsetting the both of you when it's not a problem right now?

Thanks for the advice. I think I will start pressing for changes when she is over a year old.