Falling asleep while nursing

MANG0MAMA

Hi, my DD is 6 weeks old and she is a boobaholic. She has gotten so used to nursing and falling asleep I'm afraid no one else can put her to bed but me. DH tries but she will scream for 15 minutes before falling asleep only to wake up 10 minutes later. Since she can only be nursed to sleep we can't really do the bedtime routine either. What can I do to break her out of this habit. We've tried the paci but she spits it out most of the time. Suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

jkuhmann

Most nights, I nurse until LO is mostly asleep, then hand him off to my husband for burping and rocking until bedtime and husband puts him to bed.  It is the end of our nighttime routine, which is just diaper change, swaddle, nurse, burp, rock f

abp51008

My LO nurses to sleep at this point too. He's also 6 weeks. I'm not too worried about trying to change it up yet. He's so young still!

DS1 did the same thing. At 12 weeks we started putting to bed sleepy and he got into a new routine. He has

MANG0MAMA

I know she's still very young and night time routines don't mean much right now. I guess I will take her lead for now and hope that she will grow out of it later.