https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 09 May 2026 11:30:59 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nurse-to-sleep-no-more#post-1043167 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 01:12:25 +0000 shopaholic 1043167@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@artbee: That's good!</p> <p>@aprk: :|</p> <p>@Foodnerd81: I have the same problem. She's actually been getting fussier lately from being tired and not wanting to nap. So I have been nursing-to-nap, which is a new thing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nurse-to-sleep-no-more#post-1042205 Sun, 25 Aug 2013 11:12:19 +0000 Foodnerd81 1042205@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was just coming to check in this. I don't know how to get her to sleep if she doesn't pass out nursing. She's been bounced/rocked to sleep like twice and that's it. Nights aren't bad but she doesn't want to nap even though she's clearly tired. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nurse-to-sleep-no-more#post-1042090 Sun, 25 Aug 2013 09:10:49 +0000 aprk 1042090@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@shopaholic: we must be switching! A never nursed to sleep until recently. Ugh. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nurse-to-sleep-no-more#post-1042041 Sun, 25 Aug 2013 08:20:59 +0000 heffalump 1042041@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not nursing, but LO took a bottle so sleep until she was about 4 months and just didn't fall asleep after eating. Bedtime routine still pretty much stayed the same... I'd just put her in the crib awake and she'd fall asleep on her own. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nurse-to-sleep-no-more#post-1041676 Sat, 24 Aug 2013 18:22:50 +0000 shopaholic 1041676@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Penny Lane: This is basically what we've done the few times she hasn't fallen asleep nursing. </p> <p>@Mrs. Bee: Aww... Olive... :)</p> <p>@yellowbird: Yikes!</p> <p>@sorrycharlie: I'll be sad too. :(</p> <p>@Pink Champagne: DH has been able to put her to sleep with a bottle when I wasn't home. I'm just scared of the wide-awake and straight to crib transition! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nurse-to-sleep-no-more#post-1041669 Sat, 24 Aug 2013 18:20:10 +0000 bpcmarj 1041669@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pink Champagne: we are like this, too. We sleep trained at 11.5 months because it was taking FOREVER to nurse her to sleep then she would often wake up 30 minutes later and it would start all over. I could never leave at night. Now, she nurses before bed until drowsy/delirious, then lays down and goes to sleep. Then, 99% of the time she sleeps until morning. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nurse-to-sleep-no-more#post-1041665 Sat, 24 Aug 2013 18:14:42 +0000 lemondrop 1041665@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It worked for us until I decided to stop at 17 months. We hit a few speed bumps at 5 (nursing strike) and 10 months (standing and crying), but as a whole it turned into a very smooth transition if I just sat in the doorway of his room for 10 minutes and turned on his Scout doll. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nurse-to-sleep-no-more#post-1041417 Sat, 24 Aug 2013 12:04:49 +0000 Pink Champagne 1041417@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It worked until I got sick of being the only person who could put LO to bed at night. We sleep trained at 10.5 ish months and haven't looked back... I can't tell you how nice it is to do our bedtime routine and put him in his crib, say, "It's time for night-night" and walk away and have him just... Go to sleep. </p> <p>I say, do it until you decide you're done with it. There's nothing wrong with it, but you might find it hindering if no one else is ever able to get your LO down at night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nurse-to-sleep-no-more#post-1041411 Sat, 24 Aug 2013 11:59:13 +0000 sorrycharlie 1041411@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we're at 11 months here, and it still works - so to speak - if she's tired enough. but I nurse her and she stays awake, then I put her in her crib awake and she goes to sleep on her own..she hasn't fallen asleep nursing in weeks..if not more than a month :( kind of makes me a little sad! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nurse-to-sleep-no-more#post-1041300 Sat, 24 Aug 2013 09:44:23 +0000 Bookish 1041300@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nursing to sleep almost never worked for us. LO is 7 weeks old and it's only worked like twice, once being last night because she was so tired from having NO naps. Ugh. </p> <p>We just cluster feed her for a couple hours before, or give her 2 4oz bottles, and then put her down at 8. She wiggles around for about 15-20 mins, then falls asleep to STTN. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nurse-to-sleep-no-more#post-1041295 Sat, 24 Aug 2013 09:39:01 +0000 dolphin 1041295@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nursing to sleep only works for me if LO is already really tired. Otherwise she usually wakes up during the tranfer (ugh) or she never fell asleep and I have to do the rock bounce sing which is most of the time. She's 8 months old. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nurse-to-sleep-no-more#post-1041290 Sat, 24 Aug 2013 09:30:48 +0000 yellowbird 1041290@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@shopaholic: it stopped working for us around 10 months. She wouldn't fall asleep nursing, and we'd have to rock or bounce her to sleep. If she woke up while being layed down she would SCREAM. It was awful! It made me dread bedtime every night. We dealt with it for a about a month and a half until we decided to sleep train 2 weeks ago. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nurse-to-sleep-no-more#post-1041284 Sat, 24 Aug 2013 09:20:35 +0000 sarac 1041284@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Still working for us at almost two, but my supply is almost gone. She's been really naturally transitioning to nursing less and then just snuggling with daddy if she's still sleepy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nurse-to-sleep-no-more#post-1041143 Sat, 24 Aug 2013 07:37:35 +0000 Mrs. Bee 1041143@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>22 months and it still works. Still I really want to wean. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nurse-to-sleep-no-more#post-1041072 Sat, 24 Aug 2013 04:51:37 +0000 Penny Lane 1041072@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>when LO stopped falling asleep nursing, I just started holding him til he fell asleep. milk made him drowsy, and the snuggles just tipped him over the edge :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nurse-to-sleep-no-more#post-1041030 Sat, 24 Aug 2013 01:32:57 +0000 autumnlove 1041030@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My baby stopped nursing to sleep last month at 3 months. Now she coos and screeches after feedings until she passes out...it takes her 10-15 minutes for naps and about 5 minutes for night sleep.</p> <p>My older LO was almost 8 months when nursing to sleep stopped working! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nurse-to-sleep-no-more#post-1041020 Sat, 24 Aug 2013 00:56:12 +0000 shopaholic 1041020@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I know it's been mentioned a few times before that people have nursed to sleep until it no longer worked. If that was the case for you, I want to hear from you! When did it happen? How did you transition and change your bedtime routine?</p> <p>I'm not entirely sure that's what is happening here. I think we might have had a nap too close to bedtime tonight. K didn't fall asleep easily and didn't stay asleep for the transfer. Still, she went down fairly easily, only to wake up less than an hour later. I just want to prep myself for if &amp; when nursing-to-sleep no longer works? </p>