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If you nurse/nursed your baby to sleep...

RioG1978RioG1978 member
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how and when did you stop?

LO is 10 months old.  I'm not interested in sleep training her at all, but sometimes I wonder how I'm going to put her to sleep when I wean her.   I'm not exactly sure yet when that is going to be... I know it won't be at 12 months as seems to be the usual for my peers.   I'm not sure I see us nursing all the way to two, but perhaps somewhere in between.

Lately she's a much more active nurser at night... the gymnastics she can perform while latched are impressive.  And it also isn't doing the trick for getting gher to sleep anymore like it used to. 

Just curious to read what others did... and how your bedtime routine changed when you weaned.  We're probably going to want to be pregnant again sooner rather than later, which might play a role in dictating when I do wean.

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  • TiffanyBerryTiffanyBerry member
    At nearly 3, we still nurse, but DD stopped nursing to sleep long ago by her choice, though she still nurses in bed before sleep. What you do will depend on your kid.
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  • JayandEmmJayandEmm member
    I think maybe they stop nursing to sleep on their own. Ds nurses until he's drowsy, unlatches, and wiggles around and goes to sleep. I really didn't do much encouraging. This gives me hope that when we do stop nursing all together, I won't have a difficul
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  • RioG1978RioG1978 member

    I'm wondering if all the activity is her getting ready to be done nursing to sleep. 

    I really prefer to just let her do things on her own schedule, but if I need to wean to get pregnant again I'm a little worried about bedtime. :D

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  • MeganequineMeganequine member

    I weaned starting at 1 year.  The before bed was the last nursing season we stopped.   I switched to a bottle before bed (using up my freezer stash).  Then we switched to a sippy cup of WCM.  Now he's dropped that on his own.&n

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  • haziedazehaziedaze member
    Around 16 mo/13.5 adj he just wouldn't nurse to sleep. He would nurse and nurse and nurse and nurse...occassionally he would drift off but if I tried to unlatch he would flip out. So we changed the routine. He and I nurse in the living room and then DH ta
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  • sucredeesucredee member

    imageTiffanyBerry:
    At nearly 3, we still nurse, but DD stopped nursing to sleep long ago by her choice, though she still nurses in
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  • pitterpatter129pitterpatter129 member

    At some point we started rocking DS1.  I don't remember how it happened, but I think he just quit falling asleep nursing because we nursed before bed right up until he weaned.  I remember rocking him to sleep around 10 mo though, around the s

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  • skibunny59skibunny59 member
    I just posted above about the change in our sleep routine.  DD has been having serious issues sleeping because she needs/wants to be nursed to sleep everytime she wakes up at night.  This can be as often as every hour.  She is 13 months. &n
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  • StefandToddStefandTodd member

    It has varied, but only in the last week am I no longer even trying to nurse to sleep (for bed...for naps, he still does when he's with me...just did 45 min ago actually).  He got to where he would nurse forever and not sleep and then fight fight

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  • blu-eyedwifeblu-eyedwife member
    imageStefandTodd:

    Does your H or someone else ever try to do bedtime?  You might be surprise that she doesn't really *need* to

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  • nosoup4unosoup4u member

    I transitioned out of nursing to sleep easily for both my kids.

    DS1 kept up nursing to sleep/his bedtime nursing session until he weaned completely around 2.5. I switched his last nursing to earlier in his bedtime routine, like someone else did.

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  • boogerbearoriginalboogerbearoriginal member

    My LO seems very attached to nursing to sleep. He went through a very wiggly phase when I basically had to hold him (if I didn't he'd get up, and run around). It was around the time he got good at walking, so I think he really wanted to just run around



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