9 mo old sleep

hbrooks88974

My 9 month old still usually requires a bottle to fall asleep. Yes, horrible mom...blah blah. I am looking for ways to transition her to the no bottle to fall asleep stage I usually have to hold her while rocking and let her fall asleep while drinking her bottle. 

katykatykaty

Mine still boobs to sleep like 20 times during the night at almost 8 months.  I think it's pretty normal.  

theseaword

I have a nine month old. I boob him to sleep. I boobed his older brother for longer and he transitioned fine and now sleeps like a champ. No worries.

carrotcake06

Another vote for not that big a deal. I boobed to sleep my oldest for 15-16mo.

The twins got boob before bed until they self-weaned at 14mo. They didn't often fall asleep but that was more of a function of tandem nursing and logistics of getting then into their cribs than anything else.

Bythebeach09

I rocked DS with a bottle until he was 16 months old. Stopped cold turkey one night when I had to leave him to tend to screaming 2 month old DD. He's ok. We're not bad moms and neither are you. He's 4 now and I have to tackle him for a hug and a kiss. Enjoy rocking him and holding him. It doesn't last very long.

bumpuser9058414

Team do whatever works. If baby is sleeping well with a bottle to sleep then go with it. DS (8 months) was boobed to sleep for a long time and it was getting to be a problem because as soon as the boob was removed he woke up and was waking multiple times a night needing the boob to get back to sleep. It was taking me an hour to put him to sleep and I was losing out on time with my 6 year old daughter. We moved him to his crib and let him fuss himself to sleep and now he's sleeping like a champ. 

TL:DR, if it's not broken, don't fix it. 

sleepy33

I don't think you're horrible at all, but there may be some things you can try if you want to get away from using the bottle. What have you tried/not tried? Does he get upset if you don't give him the bottle, or does it just take longer?

Jen4033

Totally loving the "Boobs to sleep" phrase in this thread. 

My 10 mo old still does this too & it is completely normal. I believe it is completely normal for a non Boober LO as well.

hbrooks88974

We recently stopped "boobing", ha.
Guess I am just used to getting backlash on some of the other groups. Some people are meanies.

snortlegeist83

I def don't see a problem with this at her age. I think this is pretty standard really.