Nursing to sleep still at 9mos????

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Hi mamas! I put this in the breastfeeding group and as you could guess got mostly very BF-centric opinions. Wondering how you all are doing w getting LO to sleep as we are all about in the same stage now. Nursing to sleep- good, bad, indifferent?? Why do it or not do it? 😊
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Just curious to hear some opinions on nursing LO to sleep past 6 mos. I recently hired a sleep coach to help w getting our 9mo LO on a better sleep schedule (she was still waking 2-4xnight to nurse even though I knew she wasn’t hungry, just comfort sucking and her naps during day were only 1 or 2 30min sessions) and the coach suggested we dissociate sleep time from nursing. I’m not sure how I feel about this. It feels like such a natural thing to want to do, to give her that comfort. But I also see the advantage of not HAVING to do it (esp for others to put her down for bed or naps). Thoughts??

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We are about 25%BF and the rest formula. And she takes about 3/4c solids a day. I know she’s getting plenty to eat 😂 but making her go 11 h wo eating at night?!?! We don’t even go that long usually do we?

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I wouldn’t nurse/bottle or anything to sleep. They have to learn to fall asleep on their own. I’m not against feeding prior to bedtime but just not letting them fall asleep while feeding. We feed ours his last meal 30 mins to hour before bed. He is laid down and goes to sleep on his own.

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I do ... continued with my first one until I finished weaning around 15mos.  Can’t remember how that went though 😂

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We nurse to sleep at bedtime, just because she naturally falls asleep during her last feeding of the day. We are down to 5 bfing sessions and the rest is solids. 
She doesn’t always fall asleep fully, and she’s fine being put down drowsy. But she’s generally sleeping by the time we finish nursing the second side. It’s just what has worked for us schedule-wise. 🤷‍♀️

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I breastfeed all day except for the bedtime feed. It’s always a bottle of pumped milk.

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My son is a formula baby and just turned 9 months. I rock him to sleep with a bottle and binky. Someday he’ll be independent but for now I’m going to enjoy it.

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My LO is bottle fed and he still has to have a bottle in order to fall asleep. I'm sure it's going to eventually be hard to break but right now that's what works for us, and honestly I need the sleep. I work during the day and cannot be up trying to get him to fall asleep, so bottle it is for now.

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I'm still nursing my daughter to sleep, and will continue to do so. I'm just letting her take the lead. I am a stay at home mom, so it may be easier for me to do this as she does wake up several times at night to nurse. We also bedshare (her crib is against our bed) so I notice when she wants to nurse but for a minute I'll act as if I don't. She will be persistent when hungry, but will go back to sleep when it was purely to comfort nurse.

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We did sleep training and I read a bunch of books. My babe is bottle fed so not sure it helps but I still give him a bottle before sleep. Never during the night though. He always wants a 7-8 oz bottle first thing in the morning and last thing of the day. He takes much less during the day now that we’re doing solids. Maybe that’ll help you figure out how much your LO actually needs, it’s so much harder to gauge it with BF I’m sure! Congratulations and making it this far with BF! You rock!

Nursing to sleep still at 9mos????

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