https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 09 May 2026 05:55:17 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-sleep-train-your-breastfed-baby#post-2258022 Fri, 07 Aug 2015 14:02:19 +0000 oliviaoblivia 2258022@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. Both girls night weaned and STTN early. If they hadn't I would have sleep trained. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-sleep-train-your-breastfed-baby#post-2258015 Fri, 07 Aug 2015 13:57:27 +0000 jh524 2258015@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: yes I did. I started sleep training at about a month old using the Babywise method. Ebf and a excellent sleeper! Sleeping through the night at 8 wks old and still at 2 yrs he's a wonderful sleep and napper..... Oh and still bf-ing a few times a day. My only screw up was starting to nurse to sleep around a year old abs now not sure how it'll go when I wean him. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-sleep-train-your-breastfed-baby#post-2257966 Fri, 07 Aug 2015 13:20:00 +0000 FaithFertility 2257966@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No official sleep training here! I nurse her to sleep at night 90% of the time or to the point of almost!<br /> When she does wake I nurse her because it is usually once and she roots as if she is hungry and it is after at least a 5-6hr stretch </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-sleep-train-your-breastfed-baby#post-2257948 Fri, 07 Aug 2015 13:06:31 +0000 jetsa 2257948@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Same as @Rockies11: except lo2 gets up once between 2-4. When a child wakes up at an unusual time its more likely to be our toddler.</p> <p>We sleep trained and night weaned our toddler at 10 months and since then he's slept better but he's still a crappy sleeper </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-sleep-train-your-breastfed-baby#post-2257940 Fri, 07 Aug 2015 13:00:44 +0000 Peasinapod 2257940@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: if 5 hours of consecutive sleep is sleeping through the night then yes around 9 months she pretty much did it on her own.</p> <p>At 11 months I still have one wakeup a night. I've heard this improves after weaning. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-sleep-train-your-breastfed-baby#post-2257922 Fri, 07 Aug 2015 12:50:34 +0000 ellewoods84 2257922@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, but at different times. We sleep trained at 5 months for just going to sleep, but kept the overnight nursing feeds. I finally started a slow process of night weaning her around 9.5 months and she finally started sttn around 11 months. It took a couple of nights of sending my husband in once I had finished the weaning process and she finally got the memo that the breastaurant was closed at night and she started sttn. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-sleep-train-your-breastfed-baby#post-2257824 Fri, 07 Aug 2015 11:42:37 +0000 mauxie 2257824@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, looking back, I probably could've night weaned him earlier by sending DH in when he cried at night.. I'm fairly certain it was more of a comfort thing than anything, but I didn't mind. The sleep deprivation sucks but really it goes by so fast. Whenever I thought "I'm going to sleep train this week!" something came up, like he was sniffly, or teething, or whatever else :P </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-sleep-train-your-breastfed-baby#post-2257821 Fri, 07 Aug 2015 11:32:53 +0000 winniebee 2257821@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@snowjewelz: I know right? I definitely do not expect it to happen until I wean....though I can certainly hope! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-sleep-train-your-breastfed-baby#post-2257648 Fri, 07 Aug 2015 08:48:06 +0000 snowjewelz 2257648@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LovelyPlum: How did the transition go at 14 mo? I still cosleep/bedshare at 8 mo and I feel like we're gonna do it till weaning too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-sleep-train-your-breastfed-baby#post-2257645 Fri, 07 Aug 2015 08:46:36 +0000 snowjewelz 2257645@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: I am sooo skeptical of that haha, thinking that how in the world can they STTN in a month from now?! But I sure do hope they magically do! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-sleep-train-your-breastfed-baby#post-2257534 Fri, 07 Aug 2015 06:49:14 +0000 Mrs Hedgehog 2257534@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep. And she did just fine. We did it at the rec of her Ped. I knew she was getting enough and I always nursed right before bed to be sure. If she woke and didn't calm after a minute or two then she really was hungry but for the most part, she slept through the night pretty early on. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-sleep-train-your-breastfed-baby#post-2257532 Fri, 07 Aug 2015 06:46:29 +0000 catomd00 2257532@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. i still nurse her if she wakes up in the motn at 17 months.i don't believe in sleep training at all, though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-sleep-train-your-breastfed-baby#post-2257499 Fri, 07 Aug 2015 05:22:02 +0000 cascademom 2257499@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep, at 6 months with one dream feed at 10-10:30pm. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-sleep-train-your-breastfed-baby#post-2257480 Fri, 07 Aug 2015 00:21:13 +0000 BabyTsMom 2257480@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes. at the time we sleep trained, lo was ebf and we trained for going to bed only. At that time he was almost 4 months old and down to one wake up, which was appropriate, so we didn't do any motn training.<br /> He ended up sttn on his own about a month after we sleep trained, and was still ebf at that point. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-sleep-train-your-breastfed-baby#post-2257451 Thu, 06 Aug 2015 22:27:49 +0000 LovelyPlum 2257451@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No. We ended up cosleeping instead, because she still woke to nurse several times a night right to the end. We weaned at 14 months, when I went out of town for work, and we transitioned her to her crib full-time shortly there after. Miraculously, she now STTN!! It started right after we weaned. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-sleep-train-your-breastfed-baby#post-2257442 Thu, 06 Aug 2015 22:11:01 +0000 Zbug 2257442@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. We went the cosleeping route instead. She moved to a floor bed at a year, but I joined her after first wakeup. She now either sttn or I nurse and join her around 5/6. It's not for everyone but no regrets here. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-sleep-train-your-breastfed-baby#post-2257387 Thu, 06 Aug 2015 21:17:28 +0000 Corduroy 2257387@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We sleep trained LO for falling asleep at 16 weeks. I don't recall when she slept through the night. 8 or 9 months sounds about right. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-sleep-train-your-breastfed-baby#post-2257256 Thu, 06 Aug 2015 20:04:33 +0000 lady grey 2257256@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes at 5 months. I still did two feeds over night at that age and then eventually got down to one. Stopped night feeds all together around 8/9 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-sleep-train-your-breastfed-baby#post-2257246 Thu, 06 Aug 2015 20:00:48 +0000 catlady 2257246@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, we did but it was for falling asleep and making it through sleep cycles. She was waking every 1-2 hrs after the 4 month sleep regression. The sleep training worked so that she was able to stay asleep longer but she still woke when she was hungry. So we never really worried about her getting enough. We sleep trained at 5 months and she STTN on her own at 10 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-sleep-train-your-breastfed-baby#post-2257245 Thu, 06 Aug 2015 20:00:41 +0000 winniebee 2257245@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Interesting! I've read a lot of BF babies just start sleeping through on their own at 9 months.....R is 8 months.....and still wakes once....sometimes twice...... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-sleep-train-your-breastfed-baby#post-2257237 Thu, 06 Aug 2015 19:54:58 +0000 MCD919 2257237@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS was EBF and I did very loose sleep training around 10-11 months. Idk if I'd even call it that, but I just let him cry for up to 10-15 minutes before going to him, and he quickly was able to put himself back to sleep. He started sleeping 7p-7a shortly after that. I still nurse him to sleep (he's 18 months now!), but I've put him down awake since 10ish months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-sleep-train-your-breastfed-baby#post-2257234 Thu, 06 Aug 2015 19:53:20 +0000 mfa_lady 2257234@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Same as @Foodnerd81:, although I can't say what our final outcome with be since DD is only 7 months old. We trained for falling asleep as soon as she was self-soothing with finger-sucking (she was 4.5 months old). She does get a bottle of pumped BM before bed, though, instead of nursing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-sleep-train-your-breastfed-baby#post-2257229 Thu, 06 Aug 2015 19:49:39 +0000 Foodnerd81 2257229@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We only sleep trained for falling asleep. I tried for motn wake ups and gave up. I could go into all the details but basically, it wasn't working or helping and I took the path of least resistance, which was nursing her back to sleep. She started sttn at 9 months on her own. </p> <p>But, aside from sleep regressions (and we had those!) her bigger problem has usually been with falling asleep, not with waking up too many times. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-sleep-train-your-breastfed-baby#post-2257228 Thu, 06 Aug 2015 19:49:07 +0000 hilsy85 2257228@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>yep. at 6.5 months. We kept 1 overnight session til he was 13 months and started STTn on his own </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-sleep-train-your-breastfed-baby#post-2257221 Thu, 06 Aug 2015 19:47:20 +0000 Rockies11 2257221@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We didn't with either. LO#1 slept like crap and bfed all night long. LO#2 sleeps like a dream - tanks up before going to sleep for the night and sleeps straight through 12 hours. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-sleep-train-your-breastfed-baby#post-2257214 Thu, 06 Aug 2015 19:43:06 +0000 winniebee 2257214@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Did you sleep train your BF baby? If so, when?</p> <p>I'm differentiating between BF and bottle fed because I think many parents hesitate to sleep train BF babies because of not knowing how much they eat? We did more sleep training methods with our first and he was bottle fed from 4.5 months on....and I've done zero sleep training with #2 and he's EBF. But in reality I know he eats and drinks enough.... </p>