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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.

My older LO was almost 8 months when nursing to sleep stopped working!

22 months and it still works. Still I really want to wean.

@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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

@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.

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.

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.