October 2012 Moms
Rachelilly23
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BF mamas- do you still nurse to sleep?
Rachelilly23
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Mobile: BF mamas- do you still nurse to sleep?
I'm guilty. I was with DS1 too until we ended our BFing journey at 9 months. He was always a good sleeper though, so I never had a problem when I broke the cycle. Pretty sure I need to stop nursing DS2 to sleep, but the crying breaks my heart. It's just 1000 times easier and more peaceful for him, and us!
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Re: BF mamas- do you still nurse to sleep?
Why not keep doing what works? Nursing is a good thing - it's not a bad habit that needs to be broken. Just my two cents.
YUUUUP. She goes down without it for naps when I'm not there. The two times someone else has put her to bed, they have given her a BM bottle.
That is the last feeding I plan to drop when we attempt to wean at a year.
It's argued that it creates poor sleep habits because the baby wakes several times a night (after sleep cycles end), and it's common that babies who nurse to sleep require the same comfort when they wake during the night. Of course it's not true for every baby, but I think that's the biggest argument. I certainly still do not have a baby that STTN entirely, so it's true in our case. We do a bit of CIO in the middle of the night, typically 3 hours after he goes to sleep every night he wakes up and cries for a few minutes before falling back asleep.
I think it's also a concern of not wiping their teeth and gums before bed.
Ferber doesn't like it if your child has sleep issues. It is a "sleep association" and can cause problems if the child wakes often and needs to nurse to go back to sleep and isn't really hungry, just wants comfort (all of this assuming it bothers mom).
haha
we still nurse to sleep
I feel like I can't deal w stressing over stuff like whether or not my infant nurses to sleep. I have other stuff to worry about that honestly is more important and if it works it works
Yeah I understand what you're saying. I just don't like the idea of withholding comfort to my infant. She will learn to be independent someday, and she'll learn to self-soothe someday, but right now I think there are more age-appropriate things for her to learn, like how to crawl and eat and recognize faces.
The OP said it's working for them, so I was just saying, why not do what works for you now? If you run into problems down the road, you can deal with them later.
I can count on 2 hands the number of times my baby has ever STTN. But getting up 8 times per night is a COMPLETELY different story.
Brea, have you tried a Binky-tini?
Me three.
I say if it works for you And you aren't having other sleep issues... Do it! Nursing has a natural sleep inducing hormone for you and the baby!
This post makes me feel so much better!
Those &%%$# books tell you it's Bad to nurse your baby to sleep and your baby should be putting itself to sleep a minute after it turns 3 months otherwise you are a Bad Parent who deserves all the Bad Habits you get in the future.
I nurse her to sleep at night, she mostly STTN, I don't nurse her to sleep for naps, but I do rock her and sing and put her into her crib asleep. She's been put down awake maybe three or four times in her life.
Every kid is different and needs different things IMO. We nurse to sleep, but he STTN for 12 hrs so i figure my "bad habit" arent doing anything to keep him from self soothing himself back to sleep if he does wake up. I used to worry bc the books make it seem like every kid needs sleep training at night...ours apparently didnt.
He also only eats well when sleepy, so i take every sleepy moment to get in a good nursing session
No, unless her MOTN "feedings" count as nursing her to sleep. Totally guilty of just offering the boob in the middle of the night. Though last night I decided to try rocking her back to sleep and it actually worked for 2 of her 3 MOTN feeds...
I put DD to bed awake and she usually falls asleep within 5-10 minutes, which somehow are usually just babbling. I am pretty proud of this, though I probably have nothing to do with it hahaha.
So far we've had no issues. There's a concert I'd like to go to in 6 weeks, and if husb can't get DS to sleep w a bottle by then I can't go, but that's been the only inconvenience.
DH works long hours, often not home until 7pm, so a 9:30pm to 9:30 am cycle works well for us.