Sooo how does this end?

carriesu2003 · November 2013

Right now LO nurses/bottle feeds to sleep for both naps and bedtime. I don't mind it, and it has become a very predictable way to put her down. However, I worry about the future when she is too old for the bottle and weaned. For those of you who allowed a nurse to sleep association how did it end? My husband is anti cry it out.

Gftf7 · November 2013

FTM here, so no answer. But I'm very interested in what the responses are as I'm in the same boat.

froggystomper · November 2013

Also waiting for answers.... I have no idea how to put runt down without a bottle...

mishka29 · November 2013

What do you do when LO doesn't fall asleep after a feed? My LO grew out of this around 3 months. We did end up doing a CIO sleep training.

wifeofadam · November 2013

They figure it out. You either start rocking them or snuggling them or doing something else to replace the addiction. My last two had serious nurse-to-sleep associations and eventually they learned to put themselves to sleep without it, it just takes a lot of work and patience on the parent's part, which is why I'm too lazy to do it right now...

penguingrrl · November 2013

My middle one outgrew it on her own a little while after her 1st birthday (14 months I think?). I think one night I was out at bedtime and she fell asleep while DH was preparing her bottle and never asked to nurse at night again. I expected her to have a lot more trouble with that because it was the only way she settled down to sleep but was pleasantly surprised. After that she just joined her older sister in a dinner to bath to teeth to pjs to book routine then they go to sleep (3 years later that routine hasn't changed a touch).

MouseInLux · November 2013

DD stopped at about a year, I ended up sitting next to her bed singing twinkle twinkle over and over with my hand on her back. We switched her to a floor bed soon after and now we just sit at the end of her bed.

tiffanyp · November 2013

I won't lie. It can be pretty painful. The night session was the last one to go for us. She was about 2 when I explained to her that we couldn't do it anymore because she was a big girl, etc, etc. There were some tears from both of us, but she accepted it after a couple nights and then it was over. Every single session we dropped was on ordeal though. She was really into the boob. I have no idea how it ends if you end it at an earlier time. Your best bet is to slowly try to change the sleep associations. Will she take a paci?

kelly321 · November 2013

What does your DH think CIO is (not snarky, a real question)? A lot of people think that it means you put your kid in bed, turn out the lights, close the door, and don't go back in until morning. There are many more mild ways to sleep train, though.
I was very pleasantly surprised (shocked would be a better word) when we tried Ferber's sleep association method with graduated check-ins on DD1 back in the day. She cried so much less than when we had been rocking her to sleep. Is your DH willing to read baby books? If so, maybe both of you could read Ferber's chapter on sleep associations and see what you think. I don't think it's for everyone (some kids get more worked up at check-ins), but it definitely CAN work for some, and I found it to be a much more gentle method than I had feared.

penguingrrl · November 2013

I'll add that I've never done CIO. Until last summer we were living in an apartment and I wasn't comfortable bothering the neighbors with it, now all 3 kids share a room so I don't want to bother the girls with it. When we have sleep issues I use techniques from No Cry Sleep Solution and have had great success with that.

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