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I agree with everyone, do what works for you and that baby! Obviously it's natural! I also nursed DS to sleep until he was 4 or 5 months. You'll know when she's ready or ready to be trained...always trust your momma gut!
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@Rainbow Sprinkles: Amen. I literally will never understand why someone would choose not to use such a powerful tool.
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@PrincessBaby: A is just a few weeks older than H and we're in the EXACT same situation. I have to nurse her down for every nap and bedtime and no one else can get her down to sleep because of that. Our doctor told us to let her CIO but we just can't, at all. She cries so hard if she wakes up and anyone else but me goes to get her (I guess because she knows they don't have the boobs)and even that is so heartbreaking. So we plan to carry on nursing her to sleep, it's just so comforting for her. Tonight she grabbed a handful of my top to smell while she nursed, then held onto it with her other hand and she was obviously so comforted by the whole experience. I know in an ideal world she would go in her crib drowsy but awake but that's not even close to happening so I don't think nursing to sleep is the devil. If it works for you, I say keep doing it : )
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DS is 15 weeks and i still nurse him to sleep. Sometimes he is completely zonked out and other times he is just drowsy. It works for us and he just started being able to fall asleep on his own if he doesn't pass out while nursing first. It works so im not going to stop.
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I used to be able to put my son down for bed without nursing, but once teething started, he just could not get comfortable without a little nip of the boobie. Now, it's the fastest way to get him back to sleep if he wakes up in the middle of the night.
I personally say, whatever works for you. It won't be for forever- that mom who nurses her 3 year old to nap is definitely an exception- so I would continue. I personally love those little quiet moments rights before bed and yes, even in the middle of the night, especially now that I'm back at work. -
I don't think nursing to sleep is bad at all...until it becomes a problem and your LO can't sleep well without being on the boob. If that never happens (then you are super lucky!) then nursing to sleep is a beautiful thing between mama and baby.
My LO stopped falling asleep at the boob really early on and nursing wasn't a calm, relaxing experience for us although it was still bonding. I am super thankful that anyone and everyone can put him down for a nap and bedtime!
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i don't think it's the devil! we nurse every night before bedtime. sometimes he's asleep sometimes he's drowsy sometimes he's awake and then falls asleep. bedtime nursing session is my fave time and it hasn't affected his sleep associations negatively at all.
do what works for you!
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I know you have a ton of responses to this already but my response is, so what?
I nursed my lo to sleep for 5 months, I think? Then she decided she didn't want to nurse to sleep anymore, she wanted to be rocked to sleep. After that, we were able to get her to go to sleep on her own in her own crib.She made these transitions on her own. We helped her fall asleep on her own in her crib but after 3 days, it was like she had decided it was her idea.
If you like nursing your lo to sleep and she likes it too? I advocate to keep doing it.
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DS nursed to sleep for 21 months...every night up until the day he decided to go to sleep without nursing and that was it. He also comfort nursed this entire period, but he really needed the extra calories. We do struggle with sleep but I believe that is for other reasons (mainly his reflux and we can tell a difference if he falls asleep without his meds) and not because he needed to nurse to sleep or comfort nursed for so long.
Do what works for you and your LO. I stressed for so long that we were still nursing to sleep and other people stopped when their LO was only a few months old. That wasn't an option for us and it doesn't matter anyway really because what we were doing worked for our situation and that is all that mattered.
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I am a big believe in following what your baby wants. I do not agree with sleep training or CIO at all.
I tried sleep training and CIO at the recommendations of other with DS and I feel like it interfered with the bond we had. He did respond to it and settles on his own etc at about 6 months onwards, but at 18 months he hit a bad patch where he needed us. We just followed his cues and in a few weeks he had a better relationship with sleep again.
Now with DD who is 7 months old, she sucks her thumb to sleep most times and I do not care in the slightest. I follow her cues and just go wight he flow with her, ie no routine, and she is the happiest baby.
Do what works for you and H! She is only little once, and it's not like she will nurse to sleep for the rest of her life! Most things like that kids grow out of in their own. As long as she is happy and thriving it doesn't matter how she gets to sleep.
I nursed my lo to sleep for 5 months, I think? Then she decided she didn't want to nurse to sleep anymore, she wanted to be rocked to sleep. After that, we were able to get her to go to sleep on her own in her own crib.
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