Nursing to sleep... is it a bad habit?

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My baby girl passes out every night after nursing around 7:30pm and sleeps until I have to wake her (she nurses 2 times during the night...usually 12:30am and 3:30am...in which she never fully wakes) at 6am to go to daycare. Am I creating a bad habit of nursing her to sleep? It's just so easy! No bouncing or rocking necessary...

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That's what I do every night. Kelly mom has a good article on nursing to sleep that made me feel so much better about it. I like our bedtime nursing sessions.

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I do it most nights...if it works no need to fix it

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Only an issue if u plan on being away from baby a lot at night. I don't do it solely because I need her to take a bottle to fall asleep when I stay late at work and she's with daddy so I only nurse her to sleep occasionally otherwise she gets her breastmilk in a bottle

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Oh good... ftm...so I didn't know if I was creating a monster that couldn't fall asleep without me.

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My LO drinks formula and every night he falls asleep at the bottle... I try to burp him and he if he burps I feed him some more and then he falls back to sleep. I then put him in his crib and he sleeps until morning. During the day he doesn't fall asleep after a bottle only if he missed an earlier nap. I'm not changing a thing. This works for us.

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I do the same, I don't think it's a bad habit. 😄

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I do it, I don't see it as an issue.

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I did the same thing with my two older boys, who are now 15y and 11y, and they never had trouble sleeping normally. I now have a 4 month old and he falls asleep at the breast and usually sleeps all nigh, 830 to 5, and goes back down till 730 or 8. I think your LO will be just fine.

Nursing to sleep... is it a bad habit?

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