Breastfeeding before sleep and when wakes up?

Question

Baby likes to breastfeed to sleep, it’s natural, calms him down I know some people say its bad for sleep association but it works for us. I don’t have to rock him or anything I just feed then put down for nap or bed. But when he wakes up he fussed to eat again (lately because of the 4 month sleep regression each nap is 30-50min).  Is this normal? I feel like I’m feeding him a lot, but he always wants to eat 🤷‍♀️

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Ya I’m not ok sleep training... I can’t handle him crying when I know I can help him... I feel like if he’s crying he has a reason for it and I don’t want his only way of communicating to me not being met and him thinking I won’t help him if he needs me... hopefully it’s just a phase and he will grow out of it or once we start introducing food maybe he will snack less and have more regular feeds.

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Totally normal! Just follow their lead! And I also love using breastfeeding as a tool to help get him to sleep!

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I feed to sleep for bedtime. I will feed her before nap time but she always wakes up on our walk to the bedroom (I don’t give her long enough to fall into a deep sleep). I will put her in her bed awake for nap. So, to me, she’s learning to fall asleep on her own and we still get our quiet, special bonding time at night. It’s worked for her and my older daughter, but I know it isn’t for everyone.

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My babe does the same. I’ll usually feed him from one side before his nap (honestly he usually uses me as a paci for most of his nap too) and then when he wakes I’ll offer the other side, sometimes he’s still hungry and sometimes he’s not.

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Breastfeeding babies eat what they need don’t worry about it! I swear my lo spends mire time on the boob than anything else and if anything I think it’s pretty incredible you can put baby down! My lo falls asleep on the boob and snacks whilst he’s sleeping. We also co sleep and he will practically use me as a dummy all night 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

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It's fine. All 3 of my babies have done that.

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I was doing the same thing and feeding became crazy and he was just snacking all day and at night he stared waking up every two hours so I prepared and yesterday I stared sleep training him so far it’s going ok today he eat a or more and finally had took better naps. I will recommend you to sleep train your baby I am doing the gentle kind of training”sleep sense”

Breastfeeding before sleep and when wakes up?

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